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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.
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.
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 was a global innovation program to harness young people’s creativity and energy to help tackle climate change.
Funded by Siemens Foundation, The Siemens Stiftung Education Challenge was a fellowship program designed and implemented for participants from across Africa.
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.
Director of Entrepreneurship
Senior Program Manager Entrepreneurship & Innovation Ecosystems
Social Media & Engagement Manager
Program Designer & Facilitator
The DO School Fellowships gGmbH 20251 Hamburg
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beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship
The beVisioneers fellowship is a unique, one-year hybrid learning program funded by Mercedes-Benz, designed and implemented by The DO School Fellowships gGmbH. After completing the program, fellows become lifelong members of the beVisioneers community, getting support to continue developing their projects as well as their leadership and entrepreneurial skills.
With the goal of training 1,000 young people per year by 2025, and building a community of more than 10,000 innovators and mentors, beVisioneers is the most ambitious and comprehensive fellowship program The DO School Fellowships gGmbH has ever implemented.
Climate Action: Race to Zero
In collaboration with Count Us In and the UK High Level Champions for COP26, we awarded innovation grants to young people, helping them to develop climate projects and access expert support and peer connection through our global DO Community.
The goal of the initiative was to engage young innovators between 16-35 years old, helping them to take action to fight the climate crisis. Selected change makers received €2000 in funding, assisting them in developing a range of ideas in four different categories; bringing the wild back, eating for the planet, traveling sustainably, and rewriting our future.
The Siemens Stiftung Education Challenge Africa
Selected fellows were invited to Berlin for an intense multi-week learning and co-creation program with the aim of creating viable solutions to advance MINT education in Africa. Fellows had the unique opportunity to participate in bespoke workshops, expert input sessions and peer exchange for developing essential entrepreneurial and leadership skills.
Climate Action: Race to Zero
In partnership with H&M, 24YOU equips young people with the tools and mindsets needed for the working world of tomorrow. During the 12-month program, young people live together in Berlin, embark on a journey of self-discovery, learn new skills, access mentoring and co-create innovative solutions with world-leading fashion brand, H&M.
Since its inception in 2016, more than eight cohorts of 20 participants have been empowered through the 24YOU program.
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.
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.
Program Manager
Coralie is a dynamic and thoughtful Program Manager with a demonstrated history working in international affairs and the private sector. Areas of work follow her interests such as Education, Sustainable Development and Health.
She holds a Master’s degree in Business Management and International Affairs from La Sorbonne University, in Paris. Before moving to The DO, Coralie worked at UNESCO as a Program Coordinator and for a small higher-education company, developing and monitoring the implementation of impactful programs in Africa and Asia for five years.
A devout people-person, Coralie is also our Prince2® Certified Project Manager, making sure our programs are on track and running smoothly across different teams. She has worked and lived in various countries across the world, including Rwanda, Kyrgyzstan and the US. Therefore, she is passionate about Cultural Intelligence and Diversity, Inclusion and Equity questions.
Outside of the office, Coralie enjoys exploring creative activities (sewing, water painting) and learning with her toddler to take care of a garden.
Head of Operations Fellowship Programs
Stephan joined the DO School as Head of Operations for fellowship programs. He is a business economist (studied in Germany and in the UK) with extensive management and start-up experience. For more than 20 years as a freelancer, he specialized in providing operational support to the financial sector, controlling and corporate finance (venture capital) of young companies and advised start-ups strategically as well as in the areas of marketing, sales and finance.
He has extensive commercial experience, working with international companies in Germany and abroad. These included companies from the mechanical and plant engineering, the automotive industry, solar module manufacturers and project developers from the renewable energy sector.
He has also initiated and successfully helped to establish several new companies with a focus on technology and environment (solar, wind, IT, biotechnology, medical devices, etc.).
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
Senior Program Manager Entrepreneurship & Innovation Ecosystems
Marguerite has been balancing her French love of (very) creative thinking with her German love of spreadsheets throughout early stage startups and large scale entrepreneurship programs in Berlin. Her MBA in renewable energy management as well as hands-on experience with energy companies has motivated her to use her research skills for lasting and insights-based local projects on a global scale.
She is joining The DO School as a process & program designer for companies and governmental entities to create impactful change through teachings and fellowships.
When not at work you can find her either reading on a train or walking along Bretons or Irishs coastal trails (or really anywhere with fresh oysters and good rain boots) with assorted members of an ever-expanding family.
Marketing and Social Media Manager
As a passionate communication activist with international experience in human rights and digital strategies at non-governmental organizations and international institutions, Alexandra is always looking for new ways to support the great purposes of organizations with positive impact. Over the years, Alexandra helped organizations leave their impact through comprehensive and dynamic communication campaigns for e.g. UNHCR, Amnesty International and Plan International.
Driven by the power of ideas to shape narratives and create change where we most need it, Alexandra loves to create sustainable and socially impactful spaces. Sustainability means for her to take action towards preserving our natural environment, promoting a healthy, inclusive society, and supporting a thriving economy. Alexandra is an enthusiastic visionary trained in mediation, non-violent communication and intercultural community building with a strong focus on youth empowerment, migration as well as environmental and social justice.
Program Designer & Facilitator
As a Program Designer & Facilitator, Alondra is ready to dive into and co-create our unique projects, is committed to supporting all purposeful DOers on their journeys, and help align visions to strengthen the community.
Her background lies in the intersection of business and design fields, transforming insights into strategies and action. Before joining The DO School, she collaborated with and mentored entrepreneurs and undergraduate students, transforming their purposes and dreams into reality. Originally from Chile, she specialized in design thinking and business administration in Santiago and then in international marketing and sales in Münster.
Alondra is also a Kundalini yoga instructor who enjoys wandering in the wilderness, swimming, visiting friends, and trying new recipes and foods.