smarTransfer GmbH, a spin-off of Dr. René Wegener and Dr. Philipp Bitzer from the Chair of Information Systems at the University of Kassel, was awarded 3rd place out of more than 150 participants in the nationwide start-up competition Promotion Nordhessen.

smarTransfer GmbH is a further education service provider for internal company knowledge and specializes in identifying work-relevant knowledge, documenting it in multimedia form and making it available close to the workplace. Experienced employees, for example, document their expert knowledge in special online tools, which is then prepared using media didactics and made available online or on the intranet in short units throughout the company. In this way, companies can counteract demographic change and the outflow of expert knowledge.

The Promotion Nordhessen competition has been organized since 1999 and, despite its regional focus, is open to participants from all over Germany. With prize money totaling over € 60,000, it is one of the most highly endowed competitions and has an extremely successful start-up rate with over 400 companies created.