SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR · HON. PROFESSOR · BERLIN
Holger Holland
A better tomorrow emerges when education, responsibility, and action come together.
Co-founder and managing director of the Berlin College of Business and Technology (BCBT), Honorary Professor for Strategy, Social Innovation & Project Management, initiator of World Cleanup Day in Germany, chairman of Let’s Do It Germany e. V. and EU Climate Pact Ambassador.
What I work on
Thinking ecological, social, and digital transformation as one movement – academically grounded, entrepreneurially executed, socially impactful.
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Education
At BCBT, an international university with its campus at the Cambridge Innovation Center Berlin, I teach Strategy, Social Innovation, and Project Management.
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Engagement
Since 2017 I have been building World Cleanup Day in Germany – today one of the country’s largest civic environmental movements.
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Projects
Kiez Connection, Planet & Pixels and Digital Cleanup Day connect research, education, and a sustainable data culture.
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Teaching: Prepare – Draw – Deepen
My method for case-based learning: preparation becomes the rational choice, a randomly drawn group defends, the lecture deepens. Piloted in 2026 in the MBA at BCBT.
World Cleanup Day Germany 2024
600,000+
volunteers
10,000+
cleanup actions
2,000+
municipalities
Awarded the UN SDG Award 2023 · Source: Let’s Do It! Germany e. V.
A better world starts with you.
Holger Holland
Let’s talk.
For collaborations, talks, research, or World Cleanup Day.