Yes, you can apply. But you will only be qualified and your application for a scholarship will be considered in case you get into the Incubator or Accelerator program and become a program participant.

Yes, you can choose three of our four mentors for your LTA-journey and prioritize them. The LTA-team will try to take your prioritization into account as much as possible when assigning mentors. You have the opportunity to arrange three individual mentoring sessions with your mentor during your LTA-journey

No, the focus of the program is on solving the real challenges provided by our corporate partners. While you’ll build valuable skills that can later support your own entrepreneurial projects, CCC is about teamwork, innovation, and impact within a specific challenge context.
If you’re eager to work on your own idea, we recommend applying to one of our other Campus Founders programs after completing CCC.

Yes, all participants who successfully attended the four modules will receive a certificate.

Yes, this is one of our requirements. To get the most out of the program, physical attendance is very important. We believe in the benefits of peer learning and consider personal exchange with the other founders, experts, coaches, and our community. Therefore, all scholars agree to fully participate in the events and workshops on-site in Heilbronn. To engage with the program, we expect clearing your calendar during these days to give yourself space and energy to focus on the LTA program. We are convinced that the exchange in our space will provide you with incredible added value. That’s why we expect you to attend all workshops and events in person. The personal mentoring sessions take place online or on site, depending on the mentor.

With CCC, you move from deeply understanding the problem to creating a semi validated prototype. Don’t expect to have a fully developed MVP by the end of the program, as your solution idea will likely still need refinement and further validation.
For that next step, we offer other programs, such as AI Start, where you can continue validating and prototyping your idea before moving on to the Incubator to develop a full MVP.

We select scholars based on their motivation, their leadership potential and the group fit. However, we only have a limited number of scholarships. If you were able to convince us in your application, we will invite you to an online interview. We will then inform you whether you will receive the program scholarship. If all places are taken, we will let you know if you made it on the waiting list and inform you as early as possible if you can move up and join the LTA. In case you won’t make it into the program, we would be pleased about your application for the next batch.

You’ll spend an average of 8 hours per week over the 14 weeks of the program. This includes the mandatory cohort and coaching sessions, plus a few hours on your own or with your team to complete some tasks and submit them.

Joining and participating in CCC is free of charge. You just need to bring your motivation, passion, and above all, commitment to the process. We take care of the rest.

Successful completion means showing commitment, collaboration, and learning. You are expected to attend all of the cohort and coaching sessions – missing up to 3 is allowed with prior notification via your coach -, to deliver high-quality submissions, and to present a solution that fits the challenge you worked on.
More than that, success in CCC means personal and professional growth. The goal is to graduate with a better understanding of your working style, which of your skills needs improvement, and what entrepreneurship means for you.

Don’t worry! All of our sessions are offered in a hybrid setting, so you can attend remotely and still feel like you are part of the cohort.

During the LTA program, you will get to know our startup managers. They are Campus Founders employees who have already founded a startup. Based on their valuable experience, they can help community members with questions about their startup and support you.

Design Thinking is a user centered problem-solving approach that helps you deeply understand a problem before developing a solution. It is the core approach we use throughout the program, guiding your progress from exploration to validation.

Alumni of the LTA have the opportunity to apply for the “Akademie Führung und Persönlichkeit” of the Institut für Philosophie und Leadership. This is also supported by the Karl Schlecht Foundation (KSG). The selection procedure is carried out by the Institut für Philosophie und Leadership.
Further information on the content, dates and application procedure can also be found on the Institute’s website.

As an LTA-participant and therefore an active community member, you have the opportunity to draw on further mentors from our Campus Founders mentor pool in addition to the LTA mentoring. The mentors in the mentor pool bring valuable experience and a wealth of knowledge in areas such as sales, marketing and HR.

For more information, take a look at our Mentoring for the Community

The program is especially designed for founders with a growing team. It consists of 4 modules: Good Leadership, Challenges & Resilience, Communication and Team Management.
Each module consists of two workshops with experts who will guide you through topics like self- leadership, authentic leadership, psychological safety, appreciative communication, body language and team culture.
In addition, individual challenges can be discussed in 1:1 sessions with our mentors. As part of the LTA, you can draw on our LTA mentors specifically on the topic of leadership or on the Campus Founders mentor pool with different backgrounds and specializations. The exchange with other LTA founders who are facing similar challenges is also irreplaceable.

The goal is to enable you to act entrepreneurially by tackling a real challenge from a company. At the core of the program are the Design Thinking approach and Lean Startup processes, which you will be taught while working with your corporate partner at eye level. This means collaborating within and beyond your team, using innovative tools through each stage of the process. You won’t be alone on this journey, as every team is supported by a dedicated coach and a corporate expert over the full 14 weeks.

The workshops focus on Design Thinking, including what it is, what belongs to its toolbox, and how and when to apply the tools. Each session combines input with direct application to your challenge, so you learn by doing.
You’ll explore how to uncover the conscious and unconscious needs of potential customers and validate them using the right methods. From there, you’ll ideate, test, and iterate solutions for ideas and prototypes. Beyond solving the given challenge, the workshops equip you with the mindset and tools to approach and solve future problems.

The program usually takes place in German in the summer batch and in English in the winter batch.

All of the cohort sessions in the timeline (unless explicitly mentioned otherwise) are mandatory, as well as the weekly coaching sessions. The cohort sessions taks  place either on Thursday evenings or on Saturdays. For the coaching sessions, you should align with your team and coach for the day and time that suits you best. In addition, we have some extra cohort-building sessions, such as game nights and networking evenings that are offered for you to have a fully rounded experience during the run of CCC.

English. As such, we can ensure a communicative and productive environment. We expect all participants to speak and write English. Not perfectly, but you should be comfortable expressing yourself and your thoughts.

After CCC, you and your team can decide how to move forward. You may want to keep working with your corporate partner to refine and implement your solution. If your team prefers to continue independently and possibly turn the idea into a startup, you can apply for one of our advanced programs, like Campus Founder’s AI Start or Incubator programs.
In addition, you can also hand over the IP rights of the solution idea to the corporate partner in those cases where you have a convincing solution idea, but you and your team cannot keep working on it.
For those of you who truly enjoyed the program and want to help shape the next batch and its cohort, we invite you to apply to join the CCC Alumni Group, which includes our top performers. Being a member involves sharing encouraging words about the program with potential applicants, participating in special events, and having the opportunity to shadow a coach during the next batch.

The program is split into two main phases. In the first phase, you’ll focus on understanding the challenge, identifying the real problem, and defining the right problem statement.
The second phase, starting in week 6, is when you can start creating and testing your solution idea. It’s important to follow the process step by step and to stay aligned with your coach and team during each phase. The goal is to have a semi validated prototype at the end of the 14-week program.

All founders with high personal motivation, and leadership potential, who have their first employees already in place or planned for the near future. Applications from female founders are highly appreciated. Please note: To be able to address also challenges between co- founders, only one co-founder of a startup can participate per batch. Your co-founders are welcome to apply for the following batches in summer (in German) or winter (in English).

We are a non-profit organization that empowers founders to help to improve themselves and to co-create the future with us. In terms of the Leadership Talent Academy, we award 25 full scholarships supported by the Karl Schlecht Stiftung (KSG). Therefore, the program fee is covered. In case you are not located in Heilbronn or the vicinity you only must finance your accommodation and travel.

For all HHN students: The Corporate Campus Challenge is part of the Studium Generale. Therefore, if you choose Corporate Campus Challenge, you will receive ECTS from HHN.
For all HUGS students: The Corporate Campus is part of the elective study program. The students need to register with the University to receive the ECTS.
For all TUM students: The Corporate Campus Challenge is part of the elective study program. All BMT, BMDS, and MiM students will receive ECTS for their participation.
For all Uni Viadrina students: The Corporate Campus is part of the elective study program. The students need to fill in the official application form and also register with the University to receive the ECTS.
But if you are only an “ECTS-hunter” – looking for the most fun way to get ECTS – this is not the right program for you.

Short answer: Yes, you will! All details are written down in our AGBs.

The establishment of a company and the associated direct or indirect costs are not supported by the scholarship. These include, for example, the formation and notary costs (partnership agreement, entry in the commercial register, opening balance sheet, etc.). This also includes all other costs incurred by the scholarship holder in connection with the start of business activities on the market, such as company-related expenses (e.g. drawing up contracts and agreements, general terms and conditions, license agreements, etc.).
Material expenses incurred by the scholarship holder cannot be funded. In particular, costs for:

• Material, functional samples, licenses, software, etc. For term-related expenses (web hosting, warranty extensions, licenses, etc.)
• Project and start-up-related services provided by third parties
• Business trips (e.g. to project-related conferences, further training, etc.)
• Investments (e.g. PC, special equipment for the project)

It is not possible to split the scholarship between several people.

Yes, however, the condition for receiving funding for citizens from non-EU countries is a valid residence and work permit for the entire funding period. Therefore, at least a provisional certificate from the immigration authority must be submitted with the application. We advise you to clarify the compatibility of a potential Founder Scholarship with your current residence and work permit with all related organizations. Campus Founders accepts no liability or responsibility in the event of changes occurring in your residence and work permit as a result of our scholarship.

The Scholarship starts at the beginning of the month following the successful presentation, approval by the jury and signing of the scholarship contract.
The scholarship is granted for a maximum period of 12 months.
The scholarship ends in any case if the scholarship holder no longer wishes to engage in entrepreneurial thinking and action and makes this known through his or her behavior or statements to Campus Founders. The same applies if it is foreseeable that, in the opinion of Campus Founders, the Campus Founders events or programs will not be beneficial for the scholarship holder.


The monthly scholarship payment is always transferred at the end of the month to the recipient account specified in the scholarship agreement. This recipient account must be a personal account of the scholarship holder.

Once you have been accepted into the accelerator or incubator program and have received confirmation of your Founder Scholarship, our team will contact you to set individual milestones.
These are generally based on the milestones that have been defined for your entire start-up at team level. However, it is crucial that the Founder Scholarship milestones are personal goals tailored to you as a founder.
The milestones can generally be developed together with the founders in various areas and usually fall into one of the following categories: team, technology/product development, business model or customers/sales/marketing.
At the beginning of the Founder Scholarship, the milestones are set together with you for a period of three months. At the end of these three months, a joint review takes place before new milestones are defined for the following three-month window.

In the case of participation in the 5-month incubator, a successful application and continued participation in the Campus Founders Accelerator or Campus Founders AI Founders program is required in order to receive the scholarship for up to a maximum of 12 months.

The focus must be on the training and development of the scholarship holders for the entire duration of the scholarship, i.e. they must not have a main job.
Parallel employment, including part-time employment, or freelance or other commercial work to cover the scholarship holder’s living expenses is permitted up to a total of less than 15 hours per week in addition to the scholarship.

The scope of studies, together with other activities outside the Campus Founders Scholarship, may only total less than 15 hours per week.

In principle, the scholarship cannot be interrupted.


The following cases are excluded from this:


1. If a scholarship holder receives an EXIST scholarship or another start-up scholarship from a third-party provider, no scholarship will be granted and paid by Campus Founders during this time. An interruption must be applied for in writing. Following the third-party start-up grant, the grant can be continued for the remaining term. The prerequisite for this is that the scholarship holder continues to reside in the Heilbronn-Franconia region for the duration of the third-party funding and remains an active part of the Campus Founders community.


An interruption of the scholarship is only possible for up to a maximum of 24 months.
If the funding by a third party is not reported or not reported in time and/or the application for interruption is not submitted or not submitted in time, the entitlement to the scholarship already granted lapses with immediate effect. The disbursement of further funding will be discontinued and funding that has been disbursed for a period during which other funding was received can be reclaimed by Campus Founders.


2. While receiving parental allowance, the scholarship can be interrupted for up to twelve months upon application.

The scope of studies, together with other activities outside the Campus Founders Scholarship, may only total less than 15 hours per week.

A simultaneous combination with another funding program to finance the scholarship holder’s living expenses is excluded. If other scholarships or grants, including a startup grant (e.g. EXIST), is already being used, an application is only possible after the end of the funding phase.


This does not include the use of BaföG benefits.
Prize money from startup or business plan competitions may be received during the scholarship.

Funding for the subsequent establishment of a company – after the end of the scholarship – may be applied for from capital providers (e.g. business angels, banks, VCs) during the scholarship period.

The Heilbronn Franconia region includes places of residence within:

– City of Heilbronn

– Heilbronn district

– Hohenlohe district

– Main-Tauber district

– Schwäbisch Hall district

Proof of residence in the Heilbronn-Franconia region must be provided no later than 2 months after the start of our scholarship and must be maintained for the duration of the scholarship.

In particularly serious cases of deception or breach of contract by the scholarship holder, repayment of the amounts paid up to the time of termination may also be demanded.

Yes, the application can be resubmitted. There is no legal entitlement to a scholarship.

Specific inquiries about the scholarship can be made in writing to the program management:

Founder Scholarship Team (founderscholarship@campusfounders.de)