350+ people directly impacted

650+ people reached

3.000€+ raised

2024 - 2025 Impact Report

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2022 - 2023 Impact Report

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2021 - 2022 Impact Report

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Our Projects

The Refugee Computerklasse, established in 2018, is a project dedicated to empowering refugees with essential digital literacy skills. Through a comprehensive six-session course and access to donated laptops, which participants may keep upon completion, students progress from basic computer operation to mastering email, video conferencing, writing and presentation tools, spreadsheets, and fundamental IT security. We emphasize personalized instruction, helping each student build confidence and unlock their individual potential.

Refugee Computerklasse

The Cyber Security Training raises awareness about increasing online fraud and scams with a focus on the elderly population in Munich, who are especially vulnerable. Using interactive materials and a gamified structure, the training accommodates varying levels of digital literacy. The team has created a dedicated card game comprising of vocabulary,

Cyber Security Training

The Climate Café is a monthly community panel that brings together people interested in discussing climate challenges and exploring ways to create impact locally and globally. As the community grows, it fosters momentum for environmental action and offers a safe, collaborative space for sharing ideas and taking concrete steps together. Anyone interested is welcome to join, with upcoming events shared via Eventbrite one to two weeks in advance.

Climate Café

The Sustainability at School project equips secondary school students with practical knowledge on building sustainable businesses. Through workshops, case studies, and tailored study materials, we help young entre- and intrapreneurs understand end-to-end sustainability and refine their own business ideas. In collaboration with Business@School, a BCG initiative, we contributed to the Sustainability Prize through coaching and participation in the selection process and final pitches. Interested students, teachers, or schools are warmly invited to get in touch.

Sustainability at School

The Financial Literacy Program helps participants build clarity and confidence around personal finance—from budgeting and saving to taxes and investing. Combining practical exercises with essential theory, the course encourages attendees not only to understand their finances but to take action. To maintain a safe and open environment where everyone can share questions and concerns, group sizes are intentionally kept small.

Female Financial Literacy

The Inclusion Awareness project brings people together to explore different perspectives on living with disabilities and to foster greater understanding in Munich. In collaboration with partners such as INSEL Zeit e.V. and Stiftung Pfennigparade, we host an Inclusion Awareness Day that highlights diverse lived experiences and encourages a shift in perspective. In addition, our Inclusion Runs create an active, shared space where participants engage in sports together and exchange viewpoints.

Inclusion Awareness

Driving Impact since 2013

Past Projects

  • The Lichterkette e.V. and the Global Shapers Munich e.V. offered support to persons with a refugee or migration background to gain access to digital devices like laptops.

  • The Conversation Cafe aims to challenge this gap of intimacy, by bringing total strangers together, and offering them a menu of personal questions to discuss. Skip the small talk, share what really makes you pain, smile, tick, and makes you - You.

  • Providing a large number of first and second voters with information about parties and their politicians to promote willingness to go vote.

  • Digital Female Fellowship created a female-tech positive community and offered learning opportunities through online courses on technology topics. The offer addressed women with migration background.

  • Empowered more than 100 students aged between 8 and 12 with coding skills. The initiative is based on the voluntary work of young professionals to prepare students for the labour market of tomorrow.

  • Increasing youth voter turnout by gamification of politics through tinder-like app for EU elections (the project is politically neutral!)

  • Refugees in Lesvos, Greece needed to receive donations so that they could fulfill their basic needs. In cooperation with Europe Cares, our Hub aimed to deliver as many basic items as possible to help those refugees in need.

  • In our Kid’s Book project we curated a with stories, written for children aged between 4 and 9 years. They should be read together with their parents, guardians or teachers, so that they may have a fruitful and educational discussion after each story. Through a collection of stories from different people around the world, we try to prevent long-term discrimination.

  • A colorful march against nationalism and hate on the Brexit referendum anniversary that attracted 1000+ participants and was widely covered in the news.

  • Hospitals in Ukraine are quickly running out of the necessary medicine and aid. Our fellow shapers in Lviv have sent us a specific list of medicine and medical equipment needed, which comes directly from Ukraine’s Ministry of Health. We fund raised money and delivered the medial aid to Ukraine.

  • We support our local social entrepreneurs to take the next steps and amplify their impact, by matching them with top entrepreneurial coaches and mentors.

  • We provided migrants, refugees, and those undocumented in Germany need secure and reliable Coronavirus information in mother tongue in order to stay healthy and safe.

  • On German over-shoot day, the 5th of May 2020, we invited to the first dialogue of a project aimed at gathering experts and citizens of Munich to map out the challenges and opportunities we have to reach its target of Net-Zero by 2035 while rebuilding this lovely, green city of ours.

  • The Immersive Reality Chronicles was designed to explore the vast universe of augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, and other cutting-edge technological advancements that are reshaping our perception of reality.

    We aimed to convene experts and inspiring individuals in discussions covering diverse topics, including resilient leadership, entrepreneurship, burnout, the relationship between art and mental health, and a plethora of other pertinent subjects.

  • The Mindful Hour was a series of knowledge exchange sessions featuring experts and testimonies aimed at discussing and breaking the taboo around different mental health issues. The sessions are followed by social meet-ups, providing an opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals.

  • Our Munich Speaker Series brought together opinion leaders and decision makers from the corporate, entrepreneurship, science and public world to gain a holistic understanding of societal issues, to strengthen the links between politics, business, civil society and science, and in particular to give a voice to the younger generation.

  • More than 150 underprivileged students from countries including Ghana, Uganda and Mauritius  have had the chance to meet peers from other countries and practice their communication skills in an organized way.


  • Quarterly speaker series event that has been running since 2016 featuring high profile thought leaders debating and discussing hot topics.

  • We invited NGOs that are tackling issues ranging from climate change to poverty to education to participate in a one day workshop. During the workshop shapers helped to solve concrete, prior-defined challenges that these local organization face by using the collective creativity and ideation of the Global Shapers.

  • U4 was a social impact initiative bridging the gap between women and education through local and global community engagement.

  • Our videos highlight actions of different Global Shapers implementing sustainable behaviors in their daily life, hence inspiring others to follow their example. As a part of the global movement - Voice For Planet, it is time to speak up.