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Project partnerStages: Ideation · Business Development
Digitales Innovationszentrum Greifswald
WITENO GmbH · Greifswald
For: Founders and businesses that want to put digital ideas into practice
The Digital Innovation Centre offers advice, digital coaching, learning formats, coworking and exchange with business and research, at its site by the harbour. There are also weekly Digital.Praxis drop-in hours on Wednesdays.
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Project partnerStages: Ideation · Business Development
Digitales Innovationszentrum Neubrandenburg
Digitales Innovationszentrum Neubrandenburg · Neubrandenburg
For: Founders, start-ups and small businesses with digital questions
The Digital Innovation Centre offers individual coaching, open drop-in hours, workshops and coworking, plus event spaces to rent. It is run by the university of applied sciences, the city and the municipal utility company (Stadtwerke), and funded by ESF Plus and the state of MV.
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Project partnerStages: Ideation · Business Development
Digitales Innovationszentrum Schwerin
Digitales Innovationszentrum Schwerin · Schwerin
For: Founders and businesses with digital ideas
The Digital Innovation Centre offers support for starting a business, drop-in hours, workshops and events on digital business models, AI skills and new ways of working. It is run by the state capital, Schwerin.
Also in English
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Project partnerStages: Ideation · Business Development · Finale
inspired Greifswald ideas competition with Fit2Start
WITENO GmbH und Universität Greifswald · Greifswald
For: Students, researchers and alumni of the University of Greifswald, staff at local institutes and anyone living in Greifswald or the Vorpommern-Greifswald district. You must not have started your business yet.
Every year in the summer semester you submit an outline of your idea, prepared in the optional Fit2Start workshop series, where you can also find co-founders. A jury awards cash prizes and special prizes in the form of services. Coaching is available throughout the competition and afterwards, for example on your business plan and funding applications.
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Project partnerStages: Ideation · Business Development · Founding
HGWomen networking meetings
WITENO GmbH · Greifswald
For: Founders, self-employed women and all women in and around Greifswald who want to connect and share
A network for women in Greifswald with regular meetings, practical workshops and talks, for example on digital tools and time management. It is about contacts, knowledge and supporting each other. You can find dates and join the mailing list on the WITENO website.
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Project partnerStages: Business Development · Market
Inno-X start-up advice Greifswald
WITENO GmbH · Greifswald
For: Science-based and knowledge-based start-ups, social enterprises and sustainable ventures
Individual start-up support over several months: the business plan takes shape in conversation, and you write it. Topics: legal forms, registrations and permits, business idea, market, competition, sales and financial planning, plus help with funding applications. In person, online and by e-mail. Not a course, no fixed curriculum. You must live or have your company based in MV.
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Project partnerStages: Business Development · Market · Field
Inno-X start-up advice Schwerin
ATI Westmecklenburg · Schwerin
For: Science-based, technology-oriented and impact-oriented start-ups
Individual start-up support over several months: the business plan takes shape in conversation, and you write it. Topics: legal forms, registrations and permits, business idea, market, competition, sales and financial planning, plus help with funding applications. The scope depends on your project, with no fixed number of hours. Offices, workshops and labs in the building.
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Project partnerStages: Business Development · Market · Finale
Inno-X start-up advice Warnemünde
Technologiezentrum Warnemünde · Rostock
For: Science-based and technology-oriented start-ups, from the idea to expansion
Individual start-up support over several months: the business plan takes shape in conversation, and you write it, from business idea, market, competition and sales to financial planning, funding and pitch deck. Plus workshops and one-to-one coaching with external experts. Funded by ESF Plus.
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Project partnerStages: Field
Office, laboratory and production space
WITENO GmbH · Greifswald
For: Founders who need laboratory or production space
Office, laboratory and production space at four sites in Greifswald: BioTechnikum, Technologiezentrum Vorpommern, Z4-Zentrum für Life Science und Plasmatechnologie and the Digitales Innovationszentrum. Coworking as well. Prices on request.
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Stages: Assessment
Advice for migrant women (MY TURN)
migra e.V. · Rostock
For: Migrant women who want to move forward in their careers
Confidential one-to-one advice on your strengths, career prospects and balancing family and work. In simple German or in your native language. Also in Güstrow and Ribnitz-Damgarten.
Also in English · Русский · العربية · فارسی / دری
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Stages: Assessment
AnQua: Recognition advice Greifswald
genres e.V. im IQ Netzwerk MV · Greifswald
For: People of foreign origin, regardless of gender and residence status
Your foreign qualifications are compared with German reference occupations. You get help with the application, documents and translations, support throughout the procedure and help planning any adaptation training.
Also in English · العربية · Polski · Русский · Українська
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Stages: Assessment
AnQua: Recognition advice Neubrandenburg
genres e.V. im IQ Netzwerk MV · Neubrandenburg
For: People of foreign origin, regardless of gender and residence status
The same advice as in Greifswald, here in Neubrandenburg: checking your qualifications, making the application, understanding official decisions (Bescheide) and planning further training.
Also in English · العربية · Polski · Русский · Українська
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Stages: Assessment
Childcare guidance service
migra e.V. · Rostock
For: Parents and pregnant women with a migration background
Help finding a childcare place (Kita) and registering, with someone to go with you to appointments and help with translation if you wish. Without childcare there is no path to starting a business, which is why this is listed here.
Also in English · Русский · العربية · فارسی / دری
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Stages: Assessment · Ideation
Empower You course
migra e.V. · Rostock
For: Women with a migration background who want to build self-confidence and get clear about their goals
Recognise your own strengths, set a goal and reach it. Practical exercises in communication and problem solving, plus information about jobs in the region.
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Stages: Assessment · Ideation
Free initial advice
ATI Westmecklenburg · Schwerin
For: People interested in starting a business, and women entrepreneurs, in western Mecklenburg
A first advice session in person in Schwerin or online. You can book an appointment by phone or through the contact form. An easy first step towards further support from Inno-X.
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Stages: Assessment · Ideation
Free initial advice on starting a business
Zentrum für Entrepreneurship, Universität Rostock · Rostock
For: Students, graduates and staff of the University of Rostock
A first meeting on viability, market potential, business model and funding programmes, online or in person, with appointments you can book yourself. Five advisers, women and men.
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Stages: Assessment
IFDM: Integrationsfachdienst Migration
genres e.V. · Neubrandenburg
For: People with a migration background
The Integrationsfachdienst Migration (specialist integration service) offers career advice and support: labour market information, recognition of foreign qualifications, advice on education, referral to language and integration courses and help with job applications. Also in Greifswald.
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Stages: Assessment
IFDM: Integrationsfachdienst Migration
migra e.V. · Rostock
For: People with a migration background who want to make progress with their language skills and career
The Integrationsfachdienst Migration (specialist integration service) is a hub for initial advice and referral: career orientation, referral to language and education programmes, and coaching. Mobile advice is also available in Teterow, Bad Doberan, Güstrow, Bergen, Stralsund and Ribnitz-Damgarten.
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Stages: Assessment
Integration course: basic and advanced modules
Kreisvolkshochschule Vorpommern-Rügen · Stralsund
For: People who are entitled or required to take an integration course
Modules of 100 teaching hours each, Monday to Friday mornings, in an accessible room. Depending on your residence status, you may be exempt from fees. Registration in person only. Naturalisation tests are also offered.
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Stages: Assessment
Mentoring for women
migra e.V. · Rostock
For: Women with a migration background who are looking for a woman to support them personally
A tandem with an experienced female mentor: speaking German together, meeting up and finding your way in everyday life and at work. Two tracks: social integration and the path into work.
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Stages: Assessment · Residence Status
Migration advice for adult immigrants (MBE)
Caritas Vorpommern · Greifswald
For: New immigrants aged 27 and over in their first three years after arrival
Advice on integration courses, recognition of qualifications, financial help and letters from public authorities. Open drop-in hours on Tuesdays from 9 am to 12 noon, no appointment needed.
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Stages: Assessment · Residence Status
Migration advice for adult immigrants (MBE)
Caritas im Norden · Rostock
For: People aged 27 and over who are new to Germany
One-to-one advice on learning German, work and training, recognition of qualifications, childcare, public authorities and forms, as well as residence and family reunification. By appointment only.
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Stages: Assessment · Residence Status
Migration advice Schwerin
Diakonisches Werk MV · Schwerin
For: New immigrants, with a focus on the first three years in Germany
Individual support using a case management approach, from crisis intervention to helping you manage things on your own. Open hours Monday to Thursday, mornings and afternoons.
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Stages: Assessment
Recognition and qualification advice Rostock
migra e.V. im IQ Netzwerk MV · Rostock
For: People with vocational or academic qualifications gained abroad
Advice on the recognition of foreign qualifications and on further training that leads to full recognition. No proof of language skills needed, and open to holders of any residence permit.
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Stages: Assessment
Recognition and qualification advice Schwerin
VSP gGmbH im IQ Netzwerk MV · Schwerin
For: Adults with vocational qualifications gained abroad, including those without formal proof
Advice on recognition, plus bridging courses and coaching to prepare for the job market. Explicitly aimed at teachers, engineers, architects and skilled workers in medicine and the crafts.
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Stages: Assessment
Welcome Center Mecklenburgische Seenplatte
RWI Regionale Wirtschaftsinitiative Ost M-V e.V. · Neubrandenburg
For: People who are new to the region, and their families
A first point of contact for arriving and staying: job search, further training, language and integration courses, housing, childcare, school and leisure. Also keeps a directory of the coworking spaces in the region.
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Stages: Assessment
Women's café
migra e.V. · Rostock
For: Women with a migration background who want to practise German and meet other women
An open discussion group over coffee and tea. No particular level of German needed. There are two stages: one for getting started and one for women who are about to start work. Ask for dates by phone.
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Stages: Assessment
German integration course, A1 to B1
migra e.V. · Rostock
For: Migrants who are entitled or required to take an integration course
A course by the BAMF (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees) with 700 teaching hours: 600 hours of language based on everyday situations plus a 100-hour orientation course. Also available as an intensive course with 430 hours. You may be exempt from fees.
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Stages: Assessment
Integration course and German as a second language
Kreisvolkshochschule Nordwestmecklenburg · Wismar
For: Migrants in the Nordwestmecklenburg district
The main course and individual modules of the integration course, plus German as a second language at A2 level. Registration only in person at the Wismar office and only by appointment.
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Stages: Assessment
Integration courses
TollenseAkademie / genres e.V. · Neubrandenburg
For: People who have moved to Germany and want to learn German and about the country
Courses licensed by the BAMF (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees) since 2005. German plus law, culture and history, with the aim of being able to manage everyday life independently. Also offered at the Greifswald site.
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Stages: Assessment
Intercultural meeting place for women
Caritas im Norden · Schwerin
For: Refugee and migrant women and girls
An easy-to-access, safe place to meet. It reaches women who are not reached by formal advice services. Schwerin's counterpart to the women's café in Rostock.
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Stages: Assessment
International Career Service
International Office der Universität Greifswald, Projekt FIT · Greifswald
For: International students at the University of Greifswald looking for a part-time job or their first job after graduating
Advice on the German job market and starting your career, with topics based on your questions. Also workshops, a check of your application documents, job offers and contacts with companies. Open office hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays, no registration needed.
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Stages: Assessment · Business Development
Job-related language courses: German for work
TollenseAkademie / genres e.V. · Neubrandenburg
For: People who have moved to Germany, have basic German and need German for their job
Preparation for the language demands of the workplace. Closes the gap between the classroom and everyday working life, and is also useful for your first conversations with customers when you are self-employed.
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Stages: Assessment
German as a foreign language, A1 to C1
Volkshochschule Rostock · Rostock
For: People who have moved to Germany and international employees living in Rostock or the surrounding area
Course levels from A1.1 to C1, in the evenings and alongside a job. Example B1.1: 20 sessions, 60 teaching hours, €270. Online registration only if you live in Rostock or the surrounding area.
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Stages: Assessment
Integration courses and exams
Volkshochschule Rostock · Rostock
For: People who have moved to Germany and are entitled or obliged to attend an integration course
General integration courses, courses for people learning a second writing system, repeat courses and the orientation course Leben in Deutschland (Life in Germany), plus the DTZ and telc exams. Fee exemption possible. Registration in person.
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Stages: Residence Status
Asylum procedure advice
Diakonisches Werk MV · Schwerin
For: People without a residence permit who are in the asylum procedure
Free legal advice, support and representation during the asylum procedure. Also available in Greifswald.
Also in English · Français
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Stages: Residence Status
Immigration office Vorpommern-Greifswald
Landkreis Vorpommern-Greifswald · Greifswald
For: People with questions about residence permits, work permits and extensions
Residence permits and settlement permits (Niederlassungserlaubnis), work permits, integration course certificates and visa extensions. Since September 2025 by prior appointment only. You can also apply online through Aufenthalt Digital.
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Stages: Residence Status
Immigration office Vorpommern-Rügen
Landkreis Vorpommern-Rügen · Stralsund
For: People with residence matters in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen
The immigration office (Ausländerbehörde) responsible for residence permits in Stralsund and the surrounding area. It works by appointment only, which you book online. Forms and frequently asked questions are on its website.
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Stages: Residence Status
Migrationsamt Rostock
Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock · Rostock
For: People with questions about residence permits, employment and naturalisation
Rostock's immigration office (Ausländerbehörde), responsible for residence permits and the entry on gainful employment. The exact wording in your permit decides whether you are allowed to start a business at all. Visits by online appointment only.
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Stages: Residence Status · Founding
Statement on the residence permit for self-employment (§ 21 AufenthG)
IHK zu Rostock · Rostock
For: Third-country nationals applying for a residence permit to work as self-employed
The immigration office (Ausländerbehörde) involves the IHK (Chamber of Industry and Commerce) in the application process, and the chamber gives an expert statement. There is a separate information sheet. For other parts of MV, ask the IHK responsible for your area.
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Stages: Ideation · Business Development
Co-Founder Match
Zentrum für Entrepreneurship, Universität Rostock · Rostock
For: People interested in starting a business who are looking for a co-founder, female or male
A matching format run by the start-up centre: people with an idea meet people with the right skills. It adds in-person events to the Mitgründer-Börse, an online co-founder exchange.
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Stages: Ideation · Field
DeveLUP: Future centre Ludwigslust-Parchim
Landkreis Ludwigslust-Parchim · Ludwigslust
For: Founders and young companies in the district of Ludwigslust-Parchim
Flexible work and event spaces, advice, further training and networking events, with discounted coworking places for founders. The only contact point of its kind in the rural south-west.
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Stages: Ideation · Business Development · Finale
EXIST-Women Rostock
Zentrum für Entrepreneurship, Universität Rostock · Rostock
For: Women with a link to a university; you expressly do not need a finished business idea
Nine months of training for ten participants, possible alongside a job. €2,000 for material costs for everyone, and for five of them an additional three-month stipend of €1,000 to €3,000 plus a child supplement of €150 per child.
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Stages: Ideation · Business Development · Finale
EXIST-Women Stralsund
Gründungsservice der Hochschule Stralsund · Stralsund
For: Students, graduates and women with vocational training who have a link to the university
At least seven sprints on roadmapping, target groups, financing, legal forms and marketing, plus coaching and mentoring. €2,000 for material costs and an optional three-month stipend, possibly with a child supplement.
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Stages: Ideation · Business Development · Founding
Free initial advice on starting a business
IHK Neubrandenburg · Neubrandenburg
For: People interested in starting a business in eastern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
A personal advice meeting on all questions about starting a business, with a focus on a viable business concept. Also available at the Greifswald office.
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Stages: Ideation · Business Development · Field
Free start-up programmes at InnovationPort
InnovationPort Wismar · Wismar
For: Founders and start-ups with digital or innovative projects
Incubator and accelerator programmes, individual coaching, workshops, networking evenings and founder meet-ups. Coworking from 25 euros a day, and eight rooms to rent for 1 to 80 people in the Kruse-Speicher warehouse at the harbour.
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Stages: Ideation · Business Development · Market
GreifenWomen: EXIST-Women Greifswald
Zentrum für Forschungsförderung und Transfer, Universität Greifswald · Greifswald
For: Students, graduates and women with vocational training who have a link to the university
Workshops on personal development, finding ideas, validation and business models, plus a female mentor, one-to-one coaching and peer coaching. €2,000 for material costs and an optional three-month stipend. The 2026 round runs until December; a new round has not yet been announced.
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Stages: Ideation · Finale
inspired ideas competition
Zentrum für Entrepreneurship, Universität Rostock · Rostock
For: Anyone interested in starting a business, including women in the crafts and people with no link to a university
Ideas competition across MV with coaching, workshops and prizes, open to all sectors, on your own or as a team. Since 2026 there is also an audience award.
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Stages: Ideation · Field
MakerPort: coaching, FabLab and coworking
MakerPort Stralsund · Stralsund
For: Founders who want to build something, try things out or bring an idea to life digitally
Start-up advice, coaching, workshops and events, plus coworking, a FabLab and a 3D printing workshop. Funded by ESF Plus and the ERDF (EFRE). Also home to the women's network VRauen.
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Stages: Ideation · Business Development · Finale
Seminar series on entrepreneurial thinking and acting
Robert-Schmidt-Institut, Hochschule Wismar · Wismar
For: Students, graduates up to five years after graduating, and anyone interested in starting a business
Six compulsory modules ranging from finding ideas to project management and marketing, plus at least ten elective sessions and one-to-one coaching. Ends with a ten-minute pitch. Runs once per semester.
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Stages: Ideation · Founding
SPiNOFF: Excellence MV
Unisphere Innovation Campus Rostock · Rostock
For: Researchers, graduates and aspiring founders who have not yet started their business
Free support on the way from research idea to company: patents and intellectual property rights, fundraising, business model, shareholders' agreement, coaching and mentoring. Condition: you have not yet started your company.
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Stages: Ideation · Business Development · Founding
Start-up advice, including for a side business
IHK zu Schwerin · Schwerin
For: Founders in western Mecklenburg, including those starting a side business
Advice on your personal requirements, legal and formal conditions, financing and social security cover. Starting a side business is offered as a separate strand.
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Stages: Ideation · Business Development · Founding
Start-up service at Hochschule Stralsund
Hochschule Stralsund · Stralsund
For: Students, doctoral candidates and graduates up to about five years after graduating
Initial advice and idea development, one-to-one coaching, funding advice including help with the application, workshops, pitch training and business plan seminars. Also freely available self-study materials and a glossary of start-up terms.
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Stages: Ideation · Founding · Finale
Start-up support from the economic development agency
Wirtschaftsförderung Mecklenburgische Seenplatte · Neubrandenburg
For: Founders and businesses in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district
Support from the first idea to putting it into practice: funding, financing, dealing with public authorities, networking and business succession, including before and after the funding application.
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Stages: Ideation · Field
StartUpYard: open ideas workshop
Robert-Schmidt-Institut, Hochschule Wismar · Wismar
For: Anyone who wants to try things out: having an idea is explicitly not required
A makerspace with 3D printers, a laser cutter, a cutting plotter, electronics workstations and sewing machines, open Monday to Friday from 9 am to 5 pm. Plus Thursday workshops, the CoCreativeClub and a RepairCafé.
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Stages: Ideation · Market
VRauen: network for women in tech
MakerPort Stralsund · Stralsund
For: Women from business, public administration, education and civil society in the Vorpommern-Rügen district
A network without hierarchies, with two in-person meetings a year at changing venues and input on personal branding, female leadership and AI. No membership fees, no application: just come along.
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Stages: Ideation · Business Development
Ideen für Unternehmen (IfU)
Bildungswerk der Wirtschaft an der Hochschule Stralsund · Stralsund
For: Students at Hochschule Stralsund and start-ups and companies from across Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Students work in teams with start-ups and companies on real questions, for example on digital business models, artificial intelligence, marketing or HR. The project team brings both sides together and supports them. Free for students, by arrangement for start-ups and companies.
Also in English
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Stages: Ideation · Business Development · Founding
Start-up advice in the craft trades
Handwerkskammer Ostmecklenburg-Vorpommern · Rostock
For: Founders in the craft trades in eastern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Advice structured in seven modules: preparing to start with a checklist, starting a new business or taking over an existing one, business and financial plan, funding, marketing, authorities and insurance. Also available at the Neubrandenburg office.
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Stages: Ideation · Business Development · Founding · Finale
Start-up advice in the craft trades
Handwerkskammer Schwerin · Schwerin
For: Founders in the craft trades, from the first idea to the meeting with the bank
Advice on the steps to starting a business, your concept, investment and financing plans, costing, legal form and insurance. In some cases they will go with you to the bank meeting. Advice days are also held in Güstrow, Wismar, Parchim and Ludwigslust.
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Stages: Ideation · Business Development
Start-up support at the Unisphere Innovation Campus
Unisphere Innovation Campus Rostock · Rostock
For: Founders, start-ups and talent in Rostock
Start-up advice, mentoring, workshops and programmes, plus coworking, event spaces and a livestream studio. The successor organisation to the Digitales Innovationszentrum Rostock.
costs on requestGo to the offer →
Stages: Business Development · Finale
Business plan competition SEGEL SETZEN! NORD OST
stapellauf NORD OST · Stralsund
For: Students and staff of the universities in Stralsund, Neubrandenburg and Greifswald
Structured business model development with pitch training, ending in a final held as the Night of Innovation at the Pommersches Landesmuseum in Greifswald. Most recently €20,000 in prize money. Only open to people with a link to one of these universities.
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Stages: Business Development · Founding
Mentoring programme start up and fly 1+1
IHK Neubrandenburg · Neubrandenburg
For: Members of the IHK (Chamber of Industry and Commerce) from all sectors and business stages, not limited to women
One-year mentoring tandems covering management, financing, marketing, staff and digitalisation. Each tandem decides how often and in what form to meet, fully online if they like. Matching is based on a questionnaire and an introductory meeting.
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Stages: Business Development · Market
Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Rostock
Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Rostock · Rostock
For: Small and medium-sized businesses making the move to digital ways of working
Advice and hands-on projects, free of charge, on digitalisation, artificial intelligence, IT security, data protection and digital business processes. For the step from your offer to a product that is ready to sell.
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Stages: Business Development · Founding
Basic course on starting a business and numbers workshop
kontorsieben, Yvette Dinse · Rostock
For: Founders, business successors and self-employed people, with an explicit focus on women
Private start-up advice in Rostock with a basic course on starting a business, a numbers workshop, an online workshop on pricing and one-to-one coaching. Helps you apply for the Bildungsscheck MV (a training voucher).
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Stages: Business Development · Founding
Basic course for founders
ATI Westmecklenburg · Schwerin
For: Founders in western Mecklenburg who need the required basic knowledge
A basic course over several days in Schwerin, subsidised by the state: you pay €109 yourself. It covers the same required knowledge as the chamber seminar and is a prerequisite for several funding routes.
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Stages: Business Development · Founding
Basic seminar on starting a business
Handwerkskammer Schwerin · Schwerin
For: People whose main residence is in MV and who want to become self-employed
48 teaching hours in six modules: basics of self-employment, entering the market, law, financing, bookkeeping and tax. €545, or €109 of your own money with the Bildungsscheck MV (education voucher). Recognised for microloans and meetings with banks.
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Stages: Business Development
Compact Office course: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Volkshochschule Rostock · Rostock
For: People with basic Windows skills who need Office for admin work and writing quotes
Four sessions, 32 teaching hours, €220 plus course notes. The basics of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, with practical exercises and exchanging data between the programs.
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Stages: Business Development · Market · Founding
Specialist seminars on starting a business
Handwerkskammer Schwerin · Schwerin
For: Founders who want to go deeper into specific topics
One-day modules on sales, company law, marketing, office organisation, bookkeeping, financial controlling, tax, insurance and employment law. €65 per seminar, or €13 with a Bildungsscheck (education voucher). Up to five can be funded.
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Stages: Business Development · Finale
Start-up coaching
Handwerkskammer Schwerin · Schwerin
For: Founders with a concrete plan who need one-to-one support
Individual coaching on your own project, building on what you learned in the seminars. €695 plus VAT, or €139 of your own money with a Bildungsscheck (education voucher). Twice the scope for technology-oriented start-ups.
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Stages: Market · Finale
Advice on locations and financing
Rostock Business · Rostock
For: Founders and companies in Rostock who want to grow or invest
Advice on funding, financing and premises, plus introductions to regional investors, banks and the business angel network. Worthwhile from the point where investment comes into play.
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Stages: Market
Enterprise Europe Network MV
IHK zu Rostock und Partner · Rostock
For: Small businesses and start-ups that are thinking beyond MV
A cooperation platform for finding business partners elsewhere in Europe, plus advice on foreign markets, EU funding and innovation management. Largely free of charge, because it is funded by the European Commission.
Also in English
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Stages: Market · Field
Digital Health Hub MV
Digital Health Hub MV · Greifswald
For: Founders with digital solutions for healthcare
Access to the healthcare market, connections with hospitals, medical practices and other healthcare players, support for pilot projects and advice on funding. The fastest route to your first customers in healthcare.
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Stages: Market · Field
Food product development and analysis
ZELT — Zentrum für Ernährung und Lebensmitteltechnologie MV · Neubrandenburg
For: Founders with a product idea in food and drink
Analysis, sensory testing and product development in a 2,200 square metre pilot plant. The place in MV where a recipe idea becomes a product that can be legally sold and properly labelled.
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Stages: Market · Finale
Health industry network and sector conference
BioCon Valley GmbH · Rostock
For: Founders with a link to the health industry, life sciences and medical technology
The state's industry network, offering knowledge transfer, information on funding and support with internationalisation. Also the annual Nationale Branchenkonferenz Gesundheitswirtschaft (national health industry conference) in Rostock, with an evening for founders and investors and a start-up award.
Also in English
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Stages: Market · Finale
MVpreneur Day
Zentrum für Entrepreneurship, Universität Rostock · Rostock
For: Founders who want to present themselves and make new contacts
MV's largest start-up festival, with around 600 participants on the University of Rostock campus. International panels, four themed stages, workshops and a pitch session with a jury prize and an audience award.
Also in English
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Stages: Market · Field
Ocean Technology Maritime Incubator
Forschungsverbund MV · Rostock
For: Founders with a maritime focus, from the idea to market entry
Coaching, prototyping, coworking and financing contacts, plus access to partners in marine technology and the maritime industry. Explicitly supports developing and testing an MVP (minimum viable product).
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Stages: Field · Finale
Coworking, workshop spaces and conference rooms
Technologiecampus Warnemünde · Rostock
For: Founders who need a desk, a workshop or a venue for events
Coworking in the Startrampe 7.0, workshops and laboratories, plus eight rooms for 10 to 220 people that can be combined. There is a nursery on campus, which for many participants is what makes taking part possible at all.
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Stages: Field
Office, laboratory and production space with incentives for founders
Technologie- und Gewerbezentrum e.V. Schwerin/Wismar · Schwerin
For: Founders looking for affordable first business premises
Offices, laboratory and production space at the Schwerin, Wismar and Malchow sites, plus free business advice, secretarial services and starter packages such as furniture vouchers. Running for 36 years, with around 110 companies on site.
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Stages: Field
Office, laboratory and workshop space
Rostocker Innovations- und Gründerzentrum · Rostock
For: Founders and young companies looking for affordable space
3,700 square metres of office, laboratory, workshop and storage space in Rostock's Südstadt district, flexible and affordable, with meeting rooms and good transport links. Since 1991.
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Stages: Founding · Finale
Consultation days on insurance, financing and business succession
IHK zu Rostock · Rostock
For: Founders with one specific question
Free one-to-one meetings on a fixed schedule: insurance on the first Tuesday, financing on the second and business succession on the fourth Tuesday of the month. Book through the events calendar.
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Stages: Founding
Registration in the Register of Crafts (Handwerksrolle)
Handwerkskammer Ostmecklenburg-Vorpommern · Rostock
For: Founders in one of the 145 craft trades
A formal registration step before your business starts operating. In the first four years you pay reduced contributions if your trade profit stays below €25,000. If your qualifications are from a non-EU country, clarify the recognition of your qualifications first.
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Stages: Finale
Female Founders Contest: MV semi-final
Business Angels Club Berlin-Brandenburg · Schwerin
For: Start-ups with at least one female founder in the team, in any sector
By its own account, Germany's largest pitch competition for female founders. There are twelve regional semi-finals, with the MV semi-final at the IHK zu Schwerin (Chamber of Industry and Commerce), and the final is in Potsdam. Prizes in kind and cash prizes, plus an audience award through an open pitch microphone.
Also in English
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Stages: Finale
Female founders' competition start up and fly
IHK Neubrandenburg · Neubrandenburg
For: Women entrepreneurs in eastern MV who started or took over a business between 2021 and 2025
Up to €3,000 in prize money to use as you wish, a certificate and publicity through the IHK's channels. Prizes are presented at the annual business reception. You must hold at least 50 per cent of the shares and be managing director.
Also in Polski
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Stages: Finale
Pitch training for investor presentations
Zentrum für Entrepreneurship, Universität Rostock · Rostock
For: Founders who will be speaking to investors
Training for your investor presentation: structure, storytelling and handling questions. The only pitch training at a university in MV that is explicitly offered as such.
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Stages: Finale
Baltic Incubate: Business angel network MV
Baltic Incubate · Rostock
For: Founding teams from MV and northern Germany who are looking for capital
Access to business angels, early-stage investment, personal mentoring and pitch events. The most direct route to private equity capital in MV.
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Across MV and online, available everywhere
Project partnerStages: Assessment · Residence Status
IQ Connect: support through qualification
Flüchtlingsrat MV e.V. · Across MV
For: People from third countries with vocational training, a degree or work experience from abroad
One-to-one advice and a skills assessment, with support during training and your job search. Open to every residence status. Mobile advice anywhere in MV once there are three requests in one place, and also by phone, WhatsApp and Telegram.
Also in English · Українська · Русский · العربية · فارسی / دری · Türkçe · Français
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Stages: Assessment · Business Development
Advice on further training
WIB e.V. · Across MV
For: Individuals who want to know which further training suits them and who pays for it
Independent, confidential advice by phone and chat, free of charge, plus a funding guide (Förderkompass) with around 28 programmes, including Bildungsschecks (education vouchers), KOMPASS for solo self-employed people and job-related language courses.
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Stages: Assessment · Business Development
Further training database for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
WIB e.V. im Auftrag des Landes · Online
For: Anyone looking for a suitable course and a way to fund it
Independent database with over 10,000 courses from 322 providers in MV, which you can filter by place and radius, topic, type of funding and learning format. Under Wirtschaft (business) there is a separate topic area for Existenzgründung (starting a business).
Also in English · Français · Русский · العربية
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Stages: Assessment
IQ QualiKompass: support through qualification
migra e.V. · Across MV
For: Migrants with partial recognition, a rejected application or informal work experience
Putting together training modules, clarifying financing, mentoring and career coaching. Covers regulated professions, academic degrees, the crafts and skills gained informally.
Also in Українська
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Stages: Assessment
QMONE: qualification for the mobility transition and renewables
genres e.V. · Online
For: International skilled workers and other workers with a technical or trade background
Guidance on job profiles and training paths in the mobility transition, renewable energy, environmental technology and sustainable crafts. Mostly online, with in-person workshops.
Also in Русский · Українська
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Stages: Assessment · Residence Status
Willkommen in MV guide
Ministerium für Inneres, Bau und Digitalisierung MV · Online
For: People who have moved to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and are looking for the right place to turn to
A directory across MV with a map view: social welfare offices, language courses, careers advice, migration advice, immigration offices (Ausländerbehörden), language mediation, and medical and psychosocial help.
Also in English · العربية · Français · Українська · Русский · فارسی / دری
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Stages: Residence Status · Founding
Einheitlicher Ansprechpartner MV
IHKs und Handwerkskammern in MV · Across MV
For: Founders and foreign service companies that want to do business in MV
The Point of Single Contact, a one-stop service for dealing with the authorities: it brings together all requirements, procedures and formalities for becoming self-employed and, if you wish, handles them electronically. With a tool for finding the responsible authority and a database of activities.
Also in English · Polski
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Stages: Residence Status · Ideation
Fact sheet on self-employment in a craft trade: in five languages
Handwerkskammer Schwerin · Online
For: People who have moved to Germany and are considering self-employment in a craft trade
Information sheet on the requirements for self-employment in a craft trade, available to download in German, English, Arabic, Farsi and Tigrinya. The only multilingual start-up material from a chamber in MV.
Also in English · العربية · فارسی / دری · ትግርኛ
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Stages: Residence Status · Founding
Faire Integration: Advice on employment law
Flüchtlingsrat MV e.V. · Across MV
For: People from non-EU countries who work or want to work in Germany
Free advice on employment rights and social benefits. They check contracts, help enforce your claims and go with you to meetings with employers or authorities. Interpreting is available on request.
Also in English · فارسی / دری
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Stages: Ideation · Business Development · Finale
bundesweite gründerinnenagentur with the Kite app
bundesweite gründerinnenagentur · Online
For: Female founders and women entrepreneurs at every stage
The national agency for women founders offers a database of advisers and networks, an events calendar with workshops on financing and pitching, and the free AI app Kite for practising difficult conversations.
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Stages: Ideation · Business Development
Mitgründer-Börse MV
Technologiezentrum Warnemünde · Online
For: Founders who have an idea but no team yet
A matching service for co-founders, women and men, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. For women who are new to the state and do not yet have a professional network, it is often the crucial missing piece.
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Stages: Ideation · Founding
Nachfolgeportal MV: matching for business takeovers
Nachfolgezentrale MV · Online
For: Women who would rather take over an existing business than start a new one
This business succession portal uses matching software to link search profiles by sector, region, size and time frame. Free of charge for people interested in a takeover throughout the process: only the selling side pays, and only if the deal succeeds.
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Stages: Ideation · Founding
Start-up roadmap (Gründerfahrplan)
IHK zu Rostock · Online
For: Founders who need the process explained step by step
An interactive guide that breaks starting a business down into stages and tells you which office is responsible for each step. A good way to get your bearings before your first advice meeting.
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Stages: Ideation · Business Development · Founding
Unternehmenswerkstatt Deutschland
IHK-Organisation · Online
For: Founders who want to work without an appointment, around the clock
Online portal with business plan templates and explainer videos, preconfigured financial plans for liquidity and profitability, sample contracts and checklists. Free of charge, registration required.
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Stages: Ideation · Business Development
Self-employment alongside a job
Kreisvolkshochschule Nordwestmecklenburg · Online
For: Anyone who wants to start a business alongside a job instead of going full-time straight away
Three-hour evening course for 88.06 euros: developing and assessing business ideas, market and target group, legal basics, costing, tax, finding customers and managing yourself when juggling a double workload.
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Stages: Business Development · Founding
Bildungsscheck MV for starting a business
GSA Gesellschaft für Struktur- und Arbeitsmarktentwicklung · Across MV
For: People whose main residence is in MV and who have not yet started their business
The Bildungsscheck (education voucher) is an 80% subsidy: up to €436 for the 48-hour qualification course and up to €556 per day of advice. You apply through the IHK or HWK during an advice session. Important: only possible BEFORE the course or advice begins and before you start your business.
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Stages: Business Development · Finale
Business plan: structure and templates
IHK zu Rostock · Online
For: Founders preparing for a meeting with a bank or a funding body
The structure and required parts of a business plan, with templates to download. The chamber checks the content with you in its initial advice and on its financing consultation day.
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Stages: Business Development · Founding
Xpert Business: financial accounting
Volkshochschule Rostock · Online
For: Beginners with no previous knowledge of business administration
24 sessions, 48 teaching hours, €329. Double-entry bookkeeping, VAT and how a balance sheet is built. The live web seminars are recorded, so the course also works if you are looking after children. Optional certificate.
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Stages: Market
Grant for trade fairs and exhibitions
Landesförderinstitut MV · Across MV
For: Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises with a product
A grant towards taking part in trade fairs and exhibitions. For founders with a physical product, this is the most realistic way into MV state funding, as the other programmes require large investments.
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Stages: Market · Finale
Power rhetoric for women who want to be persuasive
Kreisvolkshochschule Nordwestmecklenburg · Online
For: Women who want to come across confidently in work situations
Three-hour evening course for 88.06 euros: dealing with nerves, body language, voice and making your case under pressure. Direct preparation for a pitch, a bank meeting or a negotiation.
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Stages: Founding
Business valuation calculator
Bürgschaftsbank Mecklenburg-Vorpommern · Online
For: Women who want to take over a business and need to know what it is worth
Free online tool for a first estimate of a company's value when buying a business or taking one over. It does not replace a proper valuation, but it guards against inflated asking prices in the first meeting.
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Stages: Founding · Finale
BMV Direkt: Guarantee without prior bank approval
Bürgschaftsbank Mecklenburg-Vorpommern · Across MV
For: Founders without collateral whose bank turns them down for that reason
A guarantee of up to €2 million that you can expressly apply for without prior approval from your main bank (Hausbank). You get the guarantee commitment first and then present it to the bank, which reverses the usual order.
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Stages: Founding · Finale
Gründungsstipendium MV
GSA Gesellschaft für Struktur- und Arbeitsmarktentwicklung · Across MV
For: Founders with an innovative idea who need funding to get started
A state stipend (Stipendium) for start-up projects with an innovative approach. Applications and conditions through the GSA funding service.
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Stages: Founding · Finale
Master craftsperson bonus (Meisterprämie)
Landesförderinstitut MV · Across MV
For: People starting a full-time business in the crafts for the first time
A grant for starting a business in the crafts for the first time, whether you set up a new business, take one over or become an active partner. The only MV state programme aimed explicitly at individuals starting their first business.
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Stages: Founding · Finale
Microloans in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
GSA Gesellschaft für Struktur- und Arbeitsmarktentwicklung · Across MV
For: Founders running their business full time, with their residence and business premises in MV
Up to €25,000 at a fixed interest rate of 4 per cent, terms of up to six years, no interest or repayments in the first year. No collateral needed and you do not have to go through your own bank, but you need a business plan and a supporting vote from the chamber. Not for side businesses.
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Stages: Founding
Xpert Business: cash-basis accounting
Volkshochschule Rostock · Online
For: Small business owners and solo self-employed people who want to understand their tax return
Online course on the Einnahmen-Überschuss-Rechnung (EÜR), the cash-basis way of calculating profit that applies to most founders. Part of the Xpert Business series, with an optional certificate exam.
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Stages: Finale
BMV Express: Fast security for loans
Bürgschaftsbank Mecklenburg-Vorpommern · Across MV
For: Founders with a main bank (Hausbank) who need security for a loan
A guarantee for loans of up to €625,000, covering 70% of the loan, with a faster procedure. You apply through your main bank.
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