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
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Events
UPCOMING EVENTS
Business Idea Competition 2024
Date: May 23, 2024
Location: FH JOANNEUM in Kapfenberg, Audimax
Time: 2 PM
The 7th ideas competition within the framework of the start-up center KAIT-Kapfenberg Accelerator & Incubator for IT.
Applications for participation with your business idea are possible until 20.05.2025 in German and in English language. All you need to submit is a brief description of the persons and the idea by e-mail to kait@fh-joanneum.at.
If accepted, the idea will be presented on 23.05.2025 for approx. 5-7 minutes, followed by a Q&A session.
Further Information:
Sustainable Sparks 2024
Date: 9th May 2025
Time: 2 PM
Location: FH JOANNEUM Kapfenberg
Further Information 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 – Team
We introduce our KAIT – Team!
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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FH JOANNEUM GmbH -University of Applied Sciences
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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