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COBL
COBL is opencampus.sh's coworking café concept, situated at Legienstraße 40 in central Kiel — a location distinct from the Wissenschaftspark campus and positioned to serve founders, students, and remote workers who prefer working in the heart of the city rather than on the science-park periphery. The venue blends the café and workspace formats: members can work over quality coffee specialties in an environment designed to encourage informal exchange and networking. Beyond day-to-day workspace, COBL offers separately rentable rooms for small team meetings, workshops, and events, making it a flexible option for early-stage founders who need meeting infrastructure without a full-time office commitment. As part of the opencampus.sh family — which also operates StarterKitchen and fablab.sh — COBL members gain a natural introduction to the wider Kiel founder community, the Gründungsstipendium SH advisory network, and the annual Waterkant Festival ecosystem. The venue is particularly accessible for founders affiliated with Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel and Muthesius Kunsthochschule, both within cycling distance of Legienstraße. The coworking café model keeps overhead low, meaning pricing is at the accessible end of the Kiel spectrum. Pricing tier: €.
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fablab.sh
fablab.sh, located at Fraunhoferstraße 2–4 in Kiel's Wissenschaftspark district, is the city's first open-access high-tech fabrication workshop and functions as both a community makerspace and a hardware prototyping hub for startups and SMEs throughout Schleswig-Holstein. The facility is operated under the opencampus.sh umbrella and is closely connected with the MakerCube Re:Invent initiative, a partly EU-funded digital-fabrication programme designed to bring professional manufacturing tools to startups, craftspeople, and student teams. Equipment includes FDM, SLA, and SLS 3D printers, laser cutters, cutting plotters, five-axis CNC milling machines, and 3D scanners capable of capturing objects up to three metres in diameter. Open Lab Days run every Thursday from 11:00 to 19:00, providing walk-in access for members of the public and registered users alike. The MakerCube programme supplements the standing facility with expert consulting, mentoring, and structured workshops. The space targets hardware founders seeking rapid physical prototyping without committing to factory tooling, researchers requiring bespoke instrumentation, and vocational learners acquiring digital-fabrication skills. Access for qualifying participants in MakerCube programme is free of charge; general membership fees are available on enquiry. The lab's proximity to opencampus.sh's StarterKitchen coworking space creates a natural pathway for founders moving from software ideation to physical prototype. Pricing tier: €.
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StarterKitchen
StarterKitchen is the primary coworking and founder community venue operated by the non-profit Campus Business Box e.V. under the opencampus.sh umbrella, located at Kuhnkestraße 6 in Kiel's Wissenschaftspark district. The space spans 400 square metres and has been awarded best coworking space in Kiel, attracting interdisciplinary founders across tech, social enterprise, and creative sectors. The floor plan combines a large bright open-plan coworking area (referred to internally as the Sauna) with dedicated fixed desks, enclosed team offices, a Zoom-equipped call room, and a podcast studio — the latter two included in all membership tiers. Flex-desk memberships range from €20 per month for students and Schleswig-Holstein scholarship holders through €70–90 for growth-stage teams; fixed desk slots run €90–120 per month for established ventures. Pricing is deliberately below-market to remain accessible to early-stage founders. StarterKitchen serves as the first point of contact in Kiel for the regional Gründungsstipendium SH founding grant and hosts recurring formats including the Female Founders Stammtisch, open founder breakfasts, and the Prototypingweek innovation sprint. The space is closely integrated with the Waterkant Festival, opencampus.sh's annual futures-thinking event that draws several thousand attendees to Kiel. Pricing tier: €.
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Wissenschaftspark Kiel
Wissenschaftspark Kiel is the primary knowledge and innovation campus of the Kiel metropolitan area, developed as a joint initiative of the City of Kiel, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU), and the Kiel Innovation and Technology Foundation (KIWI). The park occupies a sizeable campus in the Schreventeich district on the western side of central Kiel and hosts over 70 companies, research bodies, and public institutions. Tenants span information technology (north.io, ARIVA.DE, emma technologies), engineering services, life-sciences consulting, auditing firms, and public innovation intermediaries. The CAU maintains several administrative and technology-transfer units on-site, creating direct academic-to-industry pipeline. The KIWI economic development agency is resident, giving early-stage founders immediate access to public startup support. The park offers modern office rentals from small units to large floor plates, alongside shared infrastructure and a daycare facility for working parents. Gastronomic and hotel options — including a B&B Hotel — support extended work sessions and visiting delegations. The campus is closely associated with opencampus.sh, whose StarterKitchen coworking sub-brand and learning programmes have an on-site presence. With the park's ongoing einsteineins building extension and further construction underway, the campus continues to expand its footprint. Pricing tier: €€.
