Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design

Creative Business Program

The Creative Business Programme offers current MOME students, as well as graduates from 2022 to 2025, an intensive incubation opportunity to transform their creative ideas into marketable businesses.

Application deadline

28 June 2025, 11:59 PM

Program

8 Sept 2025 – 8 March 2026

Language

Hungarian

Program Lead

Júlia Vesmás

Contact

incubation@mome.hu

We are building a supportive and safe environment for creative teams and creators who want to build purpose-driven businesses — businesses that impact not only the market but also the future.

MOME has set itself the ambitious goal of becoming the leading creative industries and innovation center in Central and Eastern Europe by 2030. To support this goal, we launched an art and design–focused incubation program in 2022 to support young creators, researchers, designers, and emerging entrepreneurs in Hungary. Then, in 2025, we established the Creative Business Program to encourage the growth of

a collaborative and internationally recognized design ecosystem.
The Creative Business Program supports active BA and MA students and graduates from 2022 to 2025, who have already learned the basics of business development, have a great idea and a fledgling business plan, and are committed to becoming entrepreneurs in the creative industry.

Aims of the program

1.Professional Support

Providing emergent creative entrepreneurs with the necessary knowledge and tools to give them the best chance of successfully launching their own business.

2.Solid Foundations

Helping participants to successfully position their projects in the market.

3.Mindset

Shaping designers and artists whose way of thinking focuses on long-term value creation, ethical practices, and collaboration-based, sustainable operation.

Program Content

During the six-month program, we provide a structured learning environment, knowledge and tools for the development of creative businesses, while supporting like-minded individuals and teams to nurture a creative community and providing custom-tailored professional mentorship to help them achieve their specific goals.

During a goal-setting workshop, teams collaboratively establish realistic yet challenging objectives with the assistance of professional trainers. To achieve these predefined goals, we provide professional support through creative mentor networks, expert consultations and workshops, and, as resources allow, access to necessary development tools and spaces.

The milestones defined in the project plan will be presented during regular monthly collective consultations. The program concludes in March 2026 with the presentation of the development process and the final product or project.

Program benefits

Business Planning

Participants will learn how to get the most out of their business ideas through a structured development process using business design tools. With the help of experts, they will review the strategies and tools needed for marketing, positioning, pricing, and financing, as well as examine which sales channels will prove most effective.

Team Building

During the program, we’ll work with you to identify any skills or expertise your team may be missing and help pinpoint areas where you should expand your team to build a successful and sustainable business in the long term.

Mentoring

During the program, you will meet regularly with experienced creative entrepreneurs who are also creators or designers. Additionally, you will have consultations with our business experts covering areas such as law, finance, accounting, tax, marketing, and branding.

Workshops

The program offers a series of skill-building and knowledge-enhancing workshops that are relevant to all participants and actively contribute to the development of their projects.

Facilities

Participants have the opportunity to use MOME’s infrastructure and campus workshop facilities within previously set boundaries for activities directly related to the product or service they are developing in the program.

Communication

During the program, students will learn how to communicate their ideas effectively, build valuable relationships with industry professionals, increase the visibility of their projects, and make their work accessible to their target audience.

Participants

Terike from Budapest

Anna Vékony, Valentin Szarvas, Anna Keszeg, Fanni László, Judit Benczik

Terike from Budapest E-Showroom is an online platform that makes the works of contemporary Hungarian, primarily emerging, fashion designers available in a curated format to creative industry professionals — including filmmakers, musicians, stylists, producers, journalists, and brands.
The goal of the project is to connect domestic avant-garde fashion with cultural and media industry projects, thereby providing visibility and economic opportunities for young designers.

Mentor: Attila Bujdosó

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Signature Objects

Dávid Salamon, Zsuzsanna Pajor

Signature Objects is a design studio and platform with a collectible design approach, where creators use light not only as a technical tool but also as an emotional and conceptual medium. They produce, curate, and sell limited-edition, collectible design lamps that function simultaneously as artworks and utilitarian objects.

Mentor: Elek Márton

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Co-Switch

Aranka Adelina Vass, Eszter Lóki

CO-SWITCH is a self-discovery board game that thematizes our eight life domains and operates based on the associative possibilities of objects. The game is available in several editions and also functions as a therapeutic tool. The purpose is to support self-discovery and, through increased awareness, improve how we relate to one another.

Mentor: Balázs Fekete, PhD

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Droply

Zsombor Égerházi

Droply is a sustainable, powder-based personal hygiene product system that offers solutions to a wide range of individual user needs. The aim of the project is to combine customization and sustainability to provide a convenient, aesthetic, and responsible alternative in everyday personal care.

Mentor: Ferenc Laufer

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OFF_Space

Hunor Tóth, Patrícia Koroknai, Anna Katalin Szilágyi, Adrienn Szövérffi, Andrea Sándor, Bence Fazakas, Ágnes László, Annamária Hajdú

Off Space is a grassroots, mobile contemporary art platform in Székelyudvarhely that offers young creators opportunities for presentation, experimentation, and community building.
The main goal of the project is to create an open, decentralized, and active artistic environment that steps outside institutional frameworks and establishes temporary exhibition and meeting spaces in urban settings.

Mentor: Mátyás Misetics

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The Echoes of Us

Kármen Weiszer

Echoes of Us aims to create commissioned video life-interviews with an honest and intimate tone. Through these interviews, people’s personal stories, life paths, and experiences can be preserved for future generations. The service is primarily intended for families who wish to preserve the memories and stories of their loved ones.

Mentor: András Péter

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KAPU

Milla Noa Moksony, Enikő Szili, Tamás Cseke

GATE (KAPU) is a research project that studies communication between the human body and the psyche. Through movement, we practice the processes of sensation and perception with the participants to develop abilities and skills related to self-awareness, bodily awareness, and self-expression.

Mentor: Viktória Matisz

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