Gitte Schober
Wageningen Impact Catalyst
Starting up people
The Wageningen Impact Catalyst is our suite of support programmes for developing entrepreneurial skills and early-stage ideas into reality – whether giving more clarity on your personal skills as change agent or helping you validate your idea. It guides entrepreneurial WUR students, researchers, and alumni through a structured, stage-gated development pathway from inspiration to impact.
Each phase offers tailored activities, workshops and offers support tools to strengthen entrepreneurial capacity, validate ideas, and develop sustainable solutions with tangible societal and environmental impact.
Inspire from idea to plan
Cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset and explore knowledge-based impact ideas
Inform from plan to proposition
Collect all information you need to validate the societal need, map stakeholders, and assess desirability of your idea
Improve from proposition to solution
Develop validated proposition with validated assumption on users, revenues and business models
Impact from solution to change
Finalize go-to-market strategy and prepare for external funding or partner scaling
A dedicated incubation programme
Inform and improve towards impact
The Wageningen Incubation programme guides through a structured pathway to impact, offering tailored support in entrepreneurship, validation, and societal value creation with coaching, funding and access to mentor and expert networks.
Course coordinators
Get in touch with our course coordinators
Our course coordinators guide you through the stages towards impact.
Robbin Reijnen
Robin de Bruijn
Collaborate with University Fund Wageningen
It is a challenge for startups to get financial support, even though money is crucial to develop their ideas into business models and prototypes and gain the necessary knowledge.
Are you interested in supporting these entrepreneurs together with us or do you have interested parties in your network? Please get in touch.
University Fund Wageningen
