Smart-up Your contacts at the School of Engineering and Architecture

«Smart-up – successfully implementing ideas» is an initiative of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Its aim is to motivate and empower students, employees and alumni to implement their business ideas and found their own start-up company. 

Smart-up offers guidance and support in the form of personal coaching and advice, providing infrastructure, matchmaking with other students and external stakeholders, as well as workshops and events to students who act as entrepreneurs. Students in the Smart-up program also have access to the “start-up garage”. This means they can use their study program as a start-up toolbox and thus generate valuable synergies between their studies and start-up efforts. This they can do by making their start-up company the topic of their student projects and thesis and by acquiring the relevant entrepreneurial skills in dedicated modules.