beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship

The best ideas don’t scale alone. Join the largest fellowship for environmental innovators and grow your project alongside peers, mentors and experts who want you to succeed. Apply by January 31, 2027.

Building an environmental venture can feel lonely. It doesn’t have to be. As a beVisioneers fellow, you get venture coaching, financial support and a community of eco-innovators from around the world. Your seat is waiting. Applications close January 31, 2027.

You don’t wait for someone else to fix the planet. You’re already building the solution. beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship is the largest fellowship for environmental innovators, and we’re looking for people who think and build differently. Applications close January 31, 2027.

You’ve done the hard part: you turned an idea into something real. Now it’s time to take it further. beVisioneers gives environmental innovators the coaching, support and network to grow their impact. Applications close January 31, 2027.

📣 Applications for beVisioneers Cohort 5 are now open We're backing 250 founders aged 18–28 who are serious about scaling their environmental solutions. If you have a prototype, early traction, proven impact, or a gamechanging idea—if you're ready to go further—show us what you've built. Here's what you get access to: 💡 Real-world innovation training designed for founders like you 🌍 A global network of young innovators doing real work 🤝 1:1 venture coaching and mentorship from leading experts 💰Up to €15,000 in project scholarships ✈️ Fully funded international travel to connect with other builders Are you ready to take your project to the next level? Show us what's possible. Become a Visioneer. Applications close January 31, 2027.

🌍 Jipe is home. For Zacharia Mutinda, a Cohort 2 beVisioneers Fellow, that means sharing land, water and livelihoods with the elephants who've always lived there — even when it means conflict. Instead of fighting the elephants, Zacharia worked with his community: building shadehouse gardens for food security, training local fishers in sustainable lake management, and installing beehive fences that keep elephants out of crops without harming them. 📊So far that his project, The Eco-Jipe Program, has employed 6 people, supplies food to more than 30 families, and secures water to over 100 families. At beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship, we know that planet-positive impact is most effective when it starts close to home - powered by local knowledge, relationships and trust that outlast any outside intervention. Our fellows already hold much of the knowledge; we help them channel it, sharpen it, and turn it into lasting change. What's your lived experience? What problem are you seeing in your community — and what local knowledge could you unlock to solve it? 🤔 Get your thinking hats on: applications open in a couple of months, so now's the time to start digging into your idea and shaping your project. #bevisioneersthemercedesbenzfellowship #community #HyperLocalEcoSolutions