beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship 2026/2027 [Cohort 4] – YOA

Deadline: January 25, 2026

Applications are open for the fourth cohort of the beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship 2026/2027. Designed and carried out by The DO School Fellowships and funded by Mercedes-Benz, beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship launched in 2023 to equip hundreds of younger folks world wide with the instruments and assets to implement environmental initiatives for a sustainable planet.

As a participant, you’ll embark on a multi-12 months fellowship journey. Starting with a 12-month intensive, requiring a minimal of a 24 hour per thirty days dedication, the fellowship equips you with the talents, assets and connections to deliver an environmental concept to life. Upon finishing the intensive foundational 12 months, Fellows proceed to strengthen native environmental efforts, scale their initiatives and develop their management expertise by way of the lengthy-time period neighborhood.

Benefits

• You obtain award-profitable innovation coaching by way of on-line modules, neighborhood-primarily based Local Hub gatherings, a Regional Summit, common entry to enterprise coaches, 1:1 mentoring, and skilled and peer assist that can assist you obtain your environmental management and mission targets.
• At the tip of the primary 12 months, it is possible for you to to entry mission scholarships for as much as €20,000 to advance your mission’s improvement.

Eligibility

• Open to people between the ages of 16-28, who need to tackle an environmental downside and reside in one of many collaborating nations (and can reside in one of many collaborating nations during the fellowship).
• Applicants ought to have a good oral and written command of English.
• You don’t want earlier entrepreneurial expertise, you simply want be passionate and pushed to assist construct a sustainable future.

Application

The application course of helps the organisers to determine the formidable, creative, and resourceful younger people who find themselves able to make an actual difference. They need to perceive your potential and the way they will assist you in taking advantage of the Fellowship. There are three sections to the application which takes roughly 30-40 minutes to finish.

• The first part is the written application and requires:
  • Basic details about your self and phone data
  • Your ardour and concept for the environmental problem you need to deal with
  • Your studying and monetary wants
  • Self-Assessment Test
  • A scanned copy of your passport or nationwide ID card
• The second part is the place you document your self on video: Via the application platform, you’ll document an as much as three-minute-lengthy interview concerning the environmental problem you might be captivated with and your concept to deal with it. They is not going to think about functions and not using a recorded interview video.
• The ultimate part is an application for Financial Support, which is elective and solely for many who request monetary help to take part within the fellowship. If you select to apply for monetary assist, we have to verify that you’re eligible. Therefore, they ask you to supply the next:
  • Reference – Find somebody who can verify your private residing scenario. This individual have to be employed and can’t be a member of the family. You will request the reference electronically by offering the referee’s e mail tackle. The referee will then obtain a hyperlink to submit the reference in your behalf.
  • Income Declaration – You shall be requested to declare your revenue by offering correct and full details about your month-to-month revenue sources immediately within the application type.

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For extra data, go to beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship.