Center for women entrepreneurs in Hanover

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Building Hohe Strasse 9
Building Hohe Strasse 11

The Hanover Entrepreneurship Center , also abbreviated to UZH or UZ Hanover , is a joint project initiated by women to promote self-employment . The facility operated by a not-for-profit GmbH also performs the regional tasks in the area of Lower Saxony for the nationwide start-up agency (bga) . The location of the center especially for women entrepreneurs in the state capital Hanover is Hohe Strasse 9 and 11 in the Hanover district of Linden-Mitte .

history

In 1997 several women got together to look for innovative ways to start a business . For the soon-to-be-sought center for women entrepreneurs, they first founded the sponsoring association Impuls & Praxis eV - Innovative ways for business start-ups .

After the first years of development in voluntary work, which was characterized by idealism and rough interactions between those involved, "by criticism and the courage to interfere," the association members were able to convince the municipal politicians and the city ​​administration of Hanover to give them the municipal property in Hohe Straße 9 and 11 on the basis of a long-term lease agreement . A limited liability company was finally founded in 1999 to start the business activities of the female entrepreneurship center. With the help of the state capital Hanover, an economic development agency "and the support of the Equal Opportunities Office", the management of the UZH was able to start its work.

In 2000, the UZH was selected as the only women's business project from Lower Saxony that was presented as a globally oriented project during the World Exhibition Expo 2000 .

In 2008, the Hanover Entrepreneurship Center was recognized as a "particularly innovative and creative place" in the 365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas competition organized by the federal government and German business .

After the first 15 years of its existence, the UZH entrepreneurs jointly created an "anniversary magazine" which, in addition to keywords such as competencies , networks and synergies on the title page, also contained a description of the location in the subtitle:

"28 women, 15 industries , 5 nationalities and 1 goal: to be
successfully independent together!"

- Cornelia Klaus, Urte Boljahn : Entrepreneurship Center Hanover. Anniversary magazine ... , Hannover: UZH, [2012?]

In July 2017, the UZH became a subsidiary of the economic development agency of the state capital and the Hanover region hannoverimpuls .

Exhibitions and events

In addition to regular art exhibitions at which works by individual artists are presented, UZ Hannover GmbH has announced that it will be organizing the 31st Day of Discovery of the Hanover Region on September 9, 2018 under the title “Healthy for Body and Mind” .

literature

  • Cornelia Klaus, Urte Boljahn et al. : Center for women entrepreneurs in Hanover. Anniversary magazine ... , Hannover: UZH, [2012?]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Cornelia Klaus, Urte Boljahn et al .: Entrepreneurship Center Hannover. Anniversary magazine .... , Hanover: UHZ, [2012?]
  2. ↑ a b o. V .: Tour 13 / Hannover-Linden / Healthy for body and mind , in: Program 31st Discovery Day of the Hannover Region . Sunday, September 9, 2018, brochure, Hanover: Region Hanover, [2018], p. 38
  3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Hohe Straße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 120
  4. ↑ a b Susanne Riemer: Central contact point for female entrepreneurs and founders: The Hanover Entrepreneurship Center , article on the Wirtschaftsfoerderung-hannover.de page from 23 August 2018

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '58.3 "  N , 9 ° 43' 2.3"  E