How do I become self-employed as a freelancer? 

June 2022
"Free, free, freelancer:in" is the title of the lecture by Christian Mikus, Institut für Freieberufe eV: From 12:00-12:45 p.m. the start-up consultant gives all freelancers valuable tips and important information for one successful start into self-employment. The IFB team also provides advice all day at its stand at the START information fair.

But what exactly are liberal professions? These include doctors, alternative practitioners and physiotherapists, lawyers and tax consultants, engineers and architects, chemists and journalists, dance teachers, yoga teachers and scientists. A liberal profession or liberal profession is defined as an independently practiced scientific, healing, artistic, literary, teaching or educational profession.

According to calculations by the Institute for Liberal Professions (IFB) Nuremberg, at the beginning of 2021 there were around 1.459.000 self-employed in the liberal professions in Germany.

What founders often develop and work out bit by bit online and offline can be found at the largest regional event with a large information fair, more than 30 exhibiting partners and more than 30 programs on the topic of self-employment, compressed and free of charge in one day - on 9. July at the MAFINEX technology center in Mannheim.