Infrastructure

Work areas as well as seminar and meeting rooms can be used free of charge.

CONSULTATIONS

The KAIT team at FH JOANNEUM is available for advice.


FUNDING & FINANCING ISSUES

Support is also available for funding and financing issues.

Network

Support in accessing FH JOANNEUM networks.


About us

Origin and content

KAIT has been in existence since 2017 and arose from the EU-funded Accelerator project (Interreg Programme, Central Europe).

KAIT is a start-up centre where primarily students, but also other founders and young entrepreneurs who want to start their own business or grow in the IT sector in Upper Styria are supported and advised. The head of the IT+ Institute at FH JOANNEUM, Sonja Gögele.


Founders

conicode

Conicode is a young, agile company that implements individual software solutions in the field of green energy and energy simulations.

New Horizons

New Horizons supports companies in the smooth relocation of highly qualified foreign workers. These are in great demand on the Austrian labor market, especially for some occupational fields.

FITAPP

With over 8 million downloads, FITAPP is one of the most successful apps from Austria. FITAPP allows you to record different languages via GPS and share them in a feed.

smart SIMPLY

Smart home, digitalisation as simple as possible. But under the aspects of regional value creation and sustainability. A regional carpenter makes quality frames for you from real solid wood, from Austria.

Melanie Dunst

From corporate design to websites and apps to online marketing. We are at home in the colourful world of marketing and advertising. Our competencies lie in web design & e-commerce, app development, programming, online marketing – digital sales and customer journey consulting.

Inpro Analytics

Inpro Analytics is the long-term outsourcing partner for data analysis, visualisation, statistical evaluations and machine learning. We help companies to become data-driven and to live Business Intelligence.

Further Founders

  • GA NORM Consulting e.U. – Andreas Geissriegler
Extended Project

Green KAIT

The EU and SFG funded project Green KAIT, with the duration August 2023 – July 2026, aims to provide students in the target regions (JTP regions of the EU) with holistic training mainly in the field of entrepreneurship and business planning. We want to encourage young people to turn their creative ideas into successful business projects. The Green KAIT offer includes several elements that help students to develop and strengthen their entrepreneurial skills

For more information, visit:

Events

UPCOMING EVENTS

Business Idea Competition 2024

Date: May 23, 2024
Location: FH JOANNEUM in Kapfenberg

Further information will follow soon!

Sustainable Sparks 2024

Date: June 2025

Further Information will follow soon at:

WE! Women’s Entrepreneurship Coaching

The Styrian Business Promotion Agency (SFG) supports female technology-oriented founders from the network of Startupmark partners as well as founders from the fields of IT and sustainability in the establishment and further development of innovative female businesses of the future with a free coaching program.

For more information, visit the website at: 

Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) Süd

The Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) South is a competence network that serves as a coordination and contact point for small and medium-sized enterprises on the topic of digitalisation in the South of Austria region.

The aim of the initiative is to enable digitalisation in SMEs.

For more information, visit the website at: 

Latest news

KAIT World Café 2024 Förderungen & Finanzierungen KAIT-Kapfenberg Accelerators & Incubators für […]
KAIT-Kapfenberg Accelerator & Incubator for IT und Green KAIT sind am Zukunftstag der steirischen Wirtschaft am 9. Oktober 2024 vertreten
„Ready, steady, go für den Green Tech Summer 2024 - Hol dir 3.500 Euro für dein Startup!“ Mit diesem Slogan bewirbt der Green Tech Valley Cluster den bereits traditionellen Green Tech Summer im Jahr 2024. Beim Green Tech Summer haben junge Menschen die Chance, ihre grünen Geschäftsideen zu entwickeln und auszuarbeiten.
Am vergangenen Samstag, den 4. Mai, fand in Kapfenberg bereits zum 6. Mal der spannende Ideenwettbewerb im Rahmen des Kapfenberg Accelerators & Incubators für IT, also kurz KAIT statt. Zahlreiche innovative Köpfe aus der Region kamen zusammen und stellten ihre Ideen vor. Mit rund 50 Teilnehmer:innen war das Event ein voller Erfolg und zeigt das große Interesse an kreativen Ideen und Unternehmertum. Die Moderation des Wettbewerbs lag in den kompetenten Händen von Gert Schweiger und Sabine Proßnegg, die durch das Programm führten und den Ablauf reibungslos gestalteten.
(Green) KAIT is the incubator and accelerator of the FH JOANNEUM in Kapfenberg. KAIT inspires people, especially students, to start their own business in the region. A particular focus is on IT/digitalization, on sustainable/green ideas and on female founders. KAIT evolved from an EU project, so it is “international by design”. That is why KAIT contributes to the line of events to celebrate the International Women’s Day with this International Round Table for Female Founders.
(Green) KAIT is the incubator and accelerator of the FH JOANNEUM in Kapfenberg. KAIT wants to inspire people, especially students, to start their own business in the region. A particular focus is on business ideas in IT/digitalization, apart from that there is more support for sustainable/green ideas and for female founders. KAIT emerged from an EU project, so it is “international by design”. That is why KAIT wants to contribute to the line of events to celebrate the International Women’s Day with this International Round Table for Female Founders.
In the afternoon, at the KAIT online event International Round Table for Female Founders, three female founders from different countries discussed opportunities and obstacles for female entrepreneurs.
On 8 March, International Women's Day, UAS FH JOANNEUM (FHJ) and its partners organized for the second time the Female Future education and career fair in Kapfenberg.
KAIT-Kapfenberg Accelerator & Incubator for IT Networking Meeting on October 11, 2022, 4 – 5 pm online, Elmar Krainz, Heidemarie Köllinger, Sabine Proßnegg

Experts

Maria Köck

Self-employed management consultant and coach,

previously managing director of an international group of companies based in Graz in the metal industry, decades of international experience in sales and marketing, setting up subsidiaries and leading the team worldwide, training in systemic coaching

I am happy to share my experience in the following areas:

Leadership and Coaching / Sales and Marketing / Hybrid Leadership / Intercultural Competence / Career Planning / Change Management / Reconciling Career and Family / Facilitation / International Project Management / Mentoring available in German, English or French.

Partner

KAIT is a partner of  Startupmark, an initiative of the Styrian Business Promotion Agency (SFG).

“Since autumn 2021, FH JOANNEUM has been offering the career-opening degree programme “Digital Entrepreneurship”, which is aimed, among others, at future founders and innovators from all disciplines. You can apply for the economic-technical training from now on.”

International Partner

Contact

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INSTITUT Software Design und Security

Werk-VI-Straße 46

8605 Kapfenberg, AUSTRIA

T.: +43 (0)316 5453-8374

E.: kait@fh-joanneum.at

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