The DO School Fellowships gGmbH is a non-profit organization headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. Our core mission is to offer training and fellowship programs to empower young people globally to launch projects addressing global and local challenges around environment and society. With our work, we are training the next generation of impact entrepreneurs in innovative educational and fellowship programs.

Over the past 10 years, we have designed and implemented numerous programs funded by corporations and foundations. Globally, more than 50,000 people from over 100 countries have been empowered by our fellowships.

Our Fellowships and Programs

During the last 10 years, we have launched and implemented numerous training and fellowship programs in Germany and globally, together with amazing partners and generous donors.

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beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship

beVisioneers provides young innovators with the training, funding, and expert support to solve the most pressing environmental challenges of our time.

Climate Action: Race to Zero

Climate Action: Race to Zero was a global innovation program to harness young people’s creativity and energy to help tackle climate change.

The Siemens Stiftung Education Challenge Africa

Funded by Siemens Foundation, The Siemens Stiftung Education Challenge was a fellowship program designed and implemented for participants from across Africa.

24YOU

24YOU is a gap year program for under-21-year-olds to develop their strengths, learn about career paths through mentorship and create innovative solutions to current sustainability challenges.

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Albane Salzberg

Program Manager

Community Entrepreneurship Sustainability First on the dance floor
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EVA VANDER GIESSEN

Director of Entrepreneurship

Education Commitment Service-based leader Clouds lover
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CORALIE JACQUOT

Program Manager

STEPHAN HILLER

Head of Operations Fellowship Programs

DOer Future skills Impact Travel enthusiast
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KATHERIN KIRSCHENMANN

Founder

FLORIAN HOFFMANN

Founder

Researcher Strategy Local impact Thalassophile
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Marguerite Bellec

Senior Program Manager Entrepreneurship & Innovation Ecosystems

Communications Activist Go-Getter Story lover Socially-conscious
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ALEXANDRA Hella Schiessendoppler

Social Media & Engagement Manager

Purpose Driven Collaborator Hands-on wicked-jumor
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ALONDRA MEDINA

Program Designer & Facilitator

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beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship

Climate Action: Race to Zero

The Siemens Stiftung Education Challenge Africa

Climate Action: Race to Zero

ALBANE SALZBERG

Admissions Manager

Albane is overseeing the beVisioneers admissions process, selecting 100 fantastic fellows for the first cohort in 2023, coming from diverse backgrounds. Before joining beVisioneers, Albane supported employee engagement for environment action in companies within the Count Us In project and supported the organisation of Our New World Week, the 2022 yearly community gathering of The DO. 

After a business school education, Albane lived in China for six years. There, she learned Mandarin and worked as a project, event and community manager for public and private organizations within international teams. In Shanghai, she founded an improvisation theater group in French, with the intention to support vulnerable, authentic self-expression, communication and fun! She facilitated weekly workshops and shows in different Asian cities.

Purposefully driven by facilitating positive transformation, Albane opened a coaching practice in 2021 to help individuals bloom. 

Albane loves to sing, dance and practice Sarbacana, an internal martial art which is like a yoga of the breath.

EVA VANDER GIESSEN

Program and Community Manager

Eva supports The DO School’s impact entrepreneurs working on environmental and social justice, and connects them with a global community of purposeful DOers. Her background is in designing and facilitating workshops and incubators for entrepreneurs and artists to drive social change in the communities they know best. Previously, she worked with teams of Israeli and Palestinian entrepreneurs at Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow in partnership with MIT, as a facilitator in YES! Arts and Social Change Jams, and in education and vocational training alongside women and youth in Afghanistan. Eva is the co-founder of San Francisco Playback Theater and serves on the advisory boards of Afghan Friends Network and Playback North America. Her love of wild places, dance, and putting compassion into action continues to get her into the best kind of trouble around the world.

CORALIE JACQUOT

Program Manager

STEPHAN HILLER

Head of Operations Fellowship Programs

KATHERIN KIRSCHENMANN

Founder

Katherin Kirschenmann is founder and Chief Program Officer of The DO. In the past years she has built and worked in partnership with major institutions and corporations, including IKEA, H&M, the Deutsche Bahn, Unilever, the Hong Kong Jockey Club and various UN organizations.

Katherin is an international speaker, executive facilitator, and TV host with Deutsche Welle. She draws on her wide international experience across sectors to develop new ways to co-create innovation, develop Purposeful DOers, and impact entrepreneurs. Engagements under her leadership have empowered thousands of individuals and businesses to create meaningful innovation and lasting social change.

Before founding The DO, Katherin gained 10 years of experience in consulting as well as the inter-governmental and non-profit sector

MARGUERITE BELLEC

Senior Program Manager Entrepreneurship & Innovation Ecosystems

ALEXANDRA STERGIOPOULOU

Marketing and Social Media Manager

ALONDRA MEDINA

Program Designer & Facilitator