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Welcome to Impact Hub Founders Academy, a 5-month programme designed to equip you and your team with the skills and capabilities to open an Impact Hub in your city.
With our comprehensive training and support, you’ll learn how to build a diverse and thriving community, develop entrepreneurial support initiatives, and tailor your approach to your local context. Ready to get started?
By joining the Impact Hub Founders Academy, you gain access to personalized 1:1 coaching, engaging peer-to-peer activities, insightful webinars, intensive bootcamps, and more. Here’s what our co-founders have to say!
The Onboarding Process is divided into different stages that help you tackle the founding journey step by step. As each context and team is different, the timeline varies! For step 1 & 2 you can take as much time as you need to feel comfortable to become an Impact Hub Candidate. The Candidate Phase lasts 5 months until the license application. Once you have the license your team has up to 18 months to launch the full Impact Hub experience!
Candidate Payment: The first payment is due after your team applies to become a Candidate and is EUR 1.200.
Joining Payment: The Joining Payment is the fee each new Impact Hub pays to become a co-owner of the IH Network The Joining Payment reflects the local economy and local purchasing power parity (PPP) and varies from EUR 9,000 to EUR 26,000 and is paid prior to becoming a license holder.
Once part of the network, every Impact Hub pays a monthly fee which is 2.5% of the revenues generated through the Impact Hub brand. Additional services, such as technology and events, are charged separately.
Every Impact Hub needs to operate a space, as having a physical home for your community will elevate the change you can create together! However, our spaces vary in size, shape and look & feel – some of our Impact Hubs have launched large scale coworking & meeting infrastructure, others create innovation labs, coworking cafés or smaller multifunctional spaces. You can partner with public institutions, real estate developers, universities and other organisations to create a place that embodies your communities needs and values.
Your local team is responsible to fundraise the needed investment in order to make sure that the business will become a sustainable one. However, the network will always make the necessary connections to partners and investors that have been identified as relevant for the specific market. See it as a big family you are about to enter – we are here to help, but you will need to be able to walk by yourself.
We are not a franchise but have developed a co-owned network structure. The Impact Hub Intellectual Property (IP) and Brand are owned by the “Impact Hub Association”, a collective of all Impact Hubs. When joining our network, you will become a co-owner of the network and are entitled to be part of the decision-making as well as all strategic conversations. You will shape the future of the network together with the rest of the local Impact Hubs.
Impact Hub does not allow co-branding to not give the impression that various entities are hosting or even owning the Impact Hub jointly. Once you join the Impact Hub network, you are a full member of the network and the Impact Hub brand will replace the current local brand.
Each Impact Hub needs to pay the joining fee to become a co-owner of the network. The Joining Payment is the fee that operates on a payment structure reflecting the local economy and local purchasing power parity (PPP). The fee varies from EUR 6,000 to EUR 20,000.
Furthermore, travel costs, accommodation and any personal expenses for the in-person boot camp need to be covered by each team.
Once accepted, every Impact Hub pays a monthly fee, which is 2.5% of the revenues generated through the Impact Hub brand. Additional services, such as technology and events, are charged separately
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