SouthwestX connects universities, colleges, research institutions, companies and investors from Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate and the neighboring regions of France and Luxembourg. This creates a cross-border network that facilitates access to expertise, markets, financing and strategic partnerships for start-ups.
As a result, research findings are systematically transferred into business applications and integrated into existing sectors and new future markets.

SouthwestX supports technology and research-based startups along the entire founding pipeline by promoting startups in future-oriented fields such as sustainable artificial intelligence and green transformation, by providing intensive support from the idea phase to market launch, by networking with established companies, investors and international partners and by building a transdisciplinary ecosystem in which innovation and entrepreneurship grow sustainably.