Next events
Entrepreneurship Summit 2026
“Shape the future yourself – with mind, heart and vision” · Stiftung Entrepreneurship, founded by Prof. Dr. Günter Faltin · main programme Sat–Sun 17–18 Oct, English track · Henry Ford Building, Freie Universität Berlin · tickets €30–240
Inaugural Event: welcome of the new cohort
BCBT welcomes its newest students at the start of the semester: introduction to the programme, the team and the campus at CIC Berlin, first contact with the WCI and We Create Future · 10:00–16:00
We Create Future Stage #4 · Startup Mentor Stage: Intelligence in the Loop – Sustainable Data Culture
AI and sustainable data culture at the interface of digital and textile · 17:30–19:00 · CIC Berlin · free of charge
AI Entrepreneurship Hackathon
Build an AI app, agent or automation for a real business problem · CIC Berlin (23 and 26 Oct) and remote · theme cluster sustainable data culture · apply by 4 Oct
Venture Café Thursday Gathering #76: Tackling Uncertainty
Weekly innovation community gathering at CIC Berlin · Venture Café Berlin, host of the We Create Future Stage
Venture Café Thursday Gathering #77: From Molecules to Market: Connecting Scientists & Business Cofounders
Weekly innovation community gathering at CIC Berlin · Venture Café Berlin, host of the We Create Future Stage
Venture Café Thursday Gathering #78
Weekly innovation community gathering at CIC Berlin · Venture Café Berlin, host of the We Create Future Stage
Venture Café Thursday Gathering #79
Weekly innovation community gathering at CIC Berlin · Venture Café Berlin, host of the We Create Future Stage
Venture Café Thursday Gathering #80: Asia Berlin Satellite Event
Weekly innovation community gathering at CIC Berlin · Venture Café Berlin, host of the We Create Future Stage
Venture Café Thursday Gathering #81
Weekly innovation community gathering at CIC Berlin · Venture Café Berlin, host of the We Create Future Stage
Christmas Gathering
WCI and BCBT end-of-year get-together · details follow
Venture Café Thursday Gathering #82: Winter Wonderland
Weekly innovation community gathering at CIC Berlin · Venture Café Berlin, host of the We Create Future Stage
Recent
World Cleanup Day 2026 at BCBT
25 participants, around 50 kg of waste around Görlitzer Park
We Create Future Stage #3: Brain over Capital
Brain over Capital, Purpose over Profit, with Prof. Dr. Günter Faltin
Entrepreneurship meets impact
Cleanups are where WCI research meets practice. When Prof. Dr. Günter Faltin, founder of the Stiftung Entrepreneurship, joins a World Cleanup Day action at Plötzensee together with WCI Director Holger Holland, entrepreneurial thinking and civic engagement come together. The group shows what a cleanup is: a collective impact event whose results can be counted and measured.
World Cleanup Day cleanup at Plötzensee, Berlin. Left: Prof. Dr. Günter Faltin (left) and Holger Holland, Director of the WCI. Right: the participants with the collected waste.
World Cleanup Day in Germany: worldcleanupday.de. The day received the UN SDG Action Award 2023 (Mobilization category) and has been an official UN international day on 20 September since General Assembly resolution 78/122 of 8 December 2023. More on our partners →
The institute at a glance
What we do
Four research clusters
Environmental action, circular economy, social innovation and impact measurement.
World Cleanup Responsibility Index
Assessing organisational responsibility along seven pillars oriented on the core subjects of ISO 26000.
Partnerships and programmes
Entrepreneurship lab, universities, civil society and cities.
We Create Future
Act, measure, prove, reinvest: the education and action initiative of the WCI.
Panels and Mentor Stage
Upcoming and past events with founders, researchers and practitioners.
Sustainable Data Culture
Planet & Pixels, data for World Cleanup Day and the WCRI.
People
Institute leadership, researchers, research assistants and advisory board.
Visit us
World Cleanup Institute at BCBT · Lohmühlenstraße 65, 12435 Berlin · [email protected]