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Gateway Alumni Awards

Celebrate successes together as a network. Making the Gateway community's commitment visible. Highlighting start-ups with social and environmental impact.

Gateway alumni share the common experience of advice and support from Gateway's start-up services. Many of our alumni are involved in the alumni network, supporting each other and Gateway.

With this in mind, we want to recognise and celebrate the success and commitment of alumni and their start-ups through the Gateway Alumni Awards.

We invite our community to nominate candidates for the Gateway Alumni Awards.

The three award categories are


1. engagement (special commitment to the Gateway alumni community)

2. impact (social, environmental and economic impact of the business)

3. growth (company growth in absolute or relative terms)

The Engagement Award is for individuals within the Gateway Alumni Network. The Impact and Growth Award is intended to recognize start-up companies from the Gateway Alumni community.


How to apply


Do you know alumni and start-ups who have made a difference or achieved great growth?

1. step

Think about which person or team you would like to nominate.

Nominations can come from the alumni community, as a self-nomination or from the Gateway team, e.g. from start-up coaches.

2. step

Fill out the online form for the award category This also includes giving reasons for your nomination.

3. step

A panel of judges will select the winners.

The awards will be presented at the Gateway Alumni Network Christmas Party in early December.

Winner of the last year

2023

Tanja Zirnstein, Co-Founder of UVIS

Winner of the Gateway Alumni Engagement Award 2023

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Elena Knispel

Project Manager Alumni & Cooperations
e.knispel@gateway-unikoeln.de+49-170-934-0307