Passing on experience

Two years after receiving the Gründungspreis Brandenburg (Brandenburg start-up award) herself, Lucie Töpfer now sits on juries that select young companies. In 2026 she helped decide several competitions in Brandenburg and took part in a discussion about financing innovation.

At a glance

• Gründungspreis Brandenburg 2026: juror, jury meeting on 7 July at the Ministry for Economic Affairs, award patron at the ceremony on 2 September.
• Reaktor Wildau: juror at Selection Day 2026.
• FUSION 2026 in Wildau: discussion on new framework conditions for technologies, start-ups and investors on 17 September.
• STAR*PARADE of BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg: juror for the hardware talk on 14 October.
• Female Energy Award 2026: curator and jury chair.

Gründungspreis Brandenburg 2026

The Gründungspreis Brandenburg honours people who build a company in the state of Brandenburg. In 2024 Lucie Töpfer received it herself in the category for women founders. In 2026 she was part of the jury, which met in July at the Ministry for Economic Affairs in Potsdam, and acted as award patron at the ceremony on 2 September.

Reaktor Wildau and FUSION 2026

At the Reaktor Wildau Selection Day, Lucie Töpfer helped choose which teams join the programme. At FUSION 2026 in Wildau she took part in a discussion about new framework conditions for technologies, start-ups and investors. Her point: research and development alone are not enough. With hardware in particular, financing for scale-up has to be planned from the start, otherwise good technologies do not make it to market.

STAR*PARADE at BTU

The STAR*PARADE is the talk competition of BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg for founding teams from Lusatia. pyropower was itself among the winners in 2024. On 14 October 2026 Lucie Töpfer sat on the jury for the hardware talk, the very field in which pyropower works.

More on this topic

• Lucie Töpfer: career, talks and topics
• Female Energy Award 2026
• AmCham Female Founders Award 2026
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