Julia Althoff - Head of MESH Collective
Mail: julia.althoff@meshcollective.de
Mobile: +49 (0) 30 - 720 14 17 12
MESH Collective / UFA X
Mehringdamm 55, 10961 Berlin
MESH Collective is a social empowerment initiative by Divimove GmbH (part of the RTL Group)
Divimove GmbH
Tobias Schiwek
Nancy Julius
Christoph von Schwerin
Olaf Herzig
Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg (district court)
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MESH Collective is an award-winning educational initiative that has pioneered the field of digital, extracurricular youth education over the past decade.
MESH Collective is an award-winning educational initiative that has pioneered the field of digital, extracurricular youth education over the past decade.
Working together with influential peers, MESH develops social web campaigns and social video series for foundations, ministries, NGOs or institutions for political education. Complex topics are prepared journalistically in a thorough and accessible way. Knowledge is conveyed in the context of young people’s daily lives and visualized according to their viewing habits.
MESH‘s diverse creator network communicates content aimed at their target group in an authentic way and across platforms.
MESH Collective promotes civic dialogue inside and outside the digital space. Sociopolitical topics such as climate change, (digital) politics, democracy, science and research in the age of “fake news”, (cultural, sexual, religious) identity politics, discrimination and community building, social change and globalization, are all conveyed through popular genres.
MESH offers easy access to complex topics; it empowers and encourages reflection. It works to give teenagers and young adults a better understanding of social contexts and sets the course for them to develop a more active participation and critical opinions.
MESH Collective promotes civic dialogue inside and outside the digital space. Sociopolitical topics such as climate change, (digital) politics, democracy, science and research in the age of “fake news”, (cultural, sexual, religious) identity politics, discrimination and community building, social change and globalization, are all conveyed through popular genres.
MESH offers easy access to complex topics; it empowers and encourages reflection. It works to give teenagers and young adults a better understanding of social contexts and sets the course for them to develop a more active participation and critical opinions.
OZON is the first format in the funk universe that deals exclusively with environmental issues. Each week, one of our hosts explores one specific question, which we approach from multiple angles: using hard facts, practical everyday tips and community challenges. We draw connections between global environmental issues, like microplastics in seas, and the daily decisions that we all make. OZON was created and is produced in collaboration with UFA X.
Cash in the Täsch is the first economy quiz on YouTube Germany. Over the course of eight episodes, channel host Pocket Hazel competes against the YouTuber stars MrTrashpack, RobBubble, breedingunicorns, NiksDa, Techtastisch, Sola, Maxim and Wailam. She’s playing for her claim to the »Superbrain« title and some donation money for a charity project. Joyce Ilg and NiksDa also appear in their roles as “the boss” and economy rapper, respectively.
On Instagram and YouTube, the Pausentaste campaign offers different creators the opportunity to engage with the daily reality of about 480.000 teenagers in Germany, who have to take care of close family members due to a debilitating disease or disability. Malwanne, Einfach Inka, Fräulein Chaos and Fabian Grischkat share their own, very personal experiences and remove the taboos from a topic that is hard to manage even with support.Pausentaste is an initiative by the Ministry for Family Affairs (BMFSFJ).
Together with WWF Germany, MESH Collective is producing a nine-part series to mark the annual Earth Overshoot Day. Currently, mankind consumes significantly more resources than the earth can reproduce within a year. The Earth Overshoot Day signifies the date, onwards from which we start using more from nature than we can repay. But what exactly does it mean to live within the boundaries of what nature can supply? What are the key factors driving climate change and what role do our personal actions play?
Various YouTube stars engage with populism. What do we mean when we use this “buzzword”? Why is populism so dangerous? How do you expose and counter populist content? The phenomenon of populism is illuminated historically and stereotypical prejudices, which are abused for populist means, are put into context and refuted with facts. The videos appear on the channels of YouTuber stars RobBubble, I’mJette, Fräulein Chaos, EsKay, Tense and ItsColeslaw.
In this five-part web video series, educational YouTuber MrWissen2go engages with global political topics. Migration, hunger, Europe, propaganda and terrorism are all illuminated in their historical and international contexts. He tries to find answers to big, complex questions, touching on different perspectives, as well as his personal opinion.
BrainFed is one of two news formats developed by MESH Collective and produced for the Federal Agency for Civic Education over the course of multiple seasons. BrainFed is told in fast and vivid images – it was the first animated news format on the German YouTube scene. BrainFed was awarded with the Grimme Online Audience Award, the Educational Interactive Award and the Politics Award.
What does human dignity actually stand for? If you ask people, nearly everyone will quote the German constitution: "Human dignity is inviolable.” But what exactly do we mean by dignity? In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the German Basic Law, the initiative Deine Würde aims to bring the abstract concept of dignity to life in various phases. A social video on Facebook and YouTube creates an emotional access point into the topic and raises awareness for the importance of dignity for our daily co-existence. The immersive play HUMARITHM deals with dignity in the age of artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, various creators also address the topic of dignity on their own channels.
Head of MESH Collective
Head of MESH Collective
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