Bosch Alumni Network - Driving Change
This publication provides an overview of the people, projects and topics within the network. It showcases its diversity and potentials and outlines opportunities to get involved.
This publication provides an overview of the people, projects and topics within the network. It showcases its diversity and potentials and outlines opportunities to get involved.
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Subhi Azizi was a guest<br />
Marc Kwizera and<br />
student in the field of<br />
Fabrice Muchiga are<br />
society at the Robert<br />
alumni of the “<strong>Change</strong>-<br />
<strong>Bosch</strong> Stiftung. In 2015<br />
Aneta and Martin<br />
makerXchange” program.<br />
he fled from Aleppo via<br />
Koppernock met as<br />
Marc is currently buil-<br />
Turkey and the Balkans<br />
fellows of the “Bellevue<br />
ding up a volunteer work<br />
to Germany in order to<br />
Programme.” Aneta<br />
community for young<br />
avoid being recruited by<br />
works for the German-<br />
university graduates<br />
the military. Currently<br />
Polish Youth Office in<br />
in Rwanda. Fabrice<br />
he is enrolled in the Poli-<br />
Potsdam; Martin works<br />
empowers youth in the<br />
tical Science Masters<br />
at the Federal Ministry<br />
Congo in their leader-<br />
Program at the Freie<br />
for Labor and Social<br />
ship abilities and in<br />
Universität Berlin.<br />
Affairs in Berlin.<br />
entrepreneurship.<br />
Photos: Manuel Frauendorf, Martin Koppernock, Marc Kwizera<br />
“It was a great moment when I received<br />
my acceptance letter for the guest student<br />
placement at the Robert <strong>Bosch</strong> Stiftung.<br />
That‘s how I became a member of the<br />
<strong>Bosch</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Network</strong> in the first place.<br />
In the Robert <strong>Bosch</strong> Stiftung, I was able<br />
to improve my strategic thinking. That is<br />
particularly valuable for me because I<br />
want to go into politics after my master‘s<br />
program. To achieve my goal, it is important<br />
that I have early contact with experts<br />
wor king in the field, which the large <strong>Bosch</strong><br />
<strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Network</strong> makes possible.”<br />
“In 2010 I was placed in the Polish Ministry<br />
of Labor and Social Policy in Warsaw with<br />
the ‘Bellevue Programme.’ In July I received<br />
an inquiry from Aneta, another ‘Bellevue’<br />
fellow, asking if we could meet. Her ministry,<br />
for regional development, was opposite<br />
mine. We got on well right from the start.<br />
In 2011, she traveled in the other direction<br />
and went from Warsaw to Berlin, where<br />
she moved in with me. Hanna was born in<br />
Berlin in 2012, and Lena was born in 2014<br />
in Warsaw, where I returned to work for<br />
four years as a social attaché in the German<br />
Embassy. Since 2017 we are back together<br />
in Germany.”<br />
“In June 2018 we traveled to the capital<br />
of Kenya in order to learn from The Somo<br />
Project, an NGO which promotes selfdetermination<br />
and education in the slum<br />
Kibera. In doing so, we became acquainted<br />
with strategies to use in our own work,<br />
such as helping educate citizens to become<br />
social entrepreneurs in order to further<br />
social transformation in low-income<br />
com munities. Without the support of the<br />
Learning Exchange Grant from the iac Berlin,<br />
we wouldn‘t have been able to make<br />
this trip.”<br />
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