Rock Your Life

ROCK YOUR LIFE!
legal form	profit company
founding	since October 2008 as a GbR, from January 21, 2010 as a GmbH
founder	Elisabeth Hahnke, Stefan Schabernak, Christina Veldhoen
Seat	Munich
purpose	Education , equal opportunities, integration
method	One-on-one mentoring
Action space	Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands
Managing directors	Elisabeth Hahnke, Stefan Schabernak
Employees	15th
Volunteers	around 9,300 volunteers
Website	www.rockyourlife.de

Rock Your Life ( proper spelling : ROCK YOUR LIFE ! , in short: RYL !, for example: “Move your life”) is a non-profit educational initiative sponsored by Rock Your Life! gGmbH based in Munich . The core of the organization is the mentoring program, where students are accompanied by a student as a mentor for at least one year. The aim of these mentoring relationships is to support the students in developing their individual potential, developing their personal and social skills and broadening their perspectives. In addition, the school situation should be improved and a successful transition into professional life or to a secondary school should be made possible. The students acquire practical skills for professional life, get to know different living environments and take on social responsibility. Rock your life! was founded in 2009 by a student team at the Zeppelin University under the direction of Elisabeth Hahnke, Stefan Schabernak and Christina Veldhoen. There are currently 51 locations in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands, where over 7,500 students volunteer. Gesine Schwan and Cem Özdemir are the patrons .

The gGmbH is a signatory of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative .

concept

At the various locations (end of 2018: Aachen , Berlin , Bielefeld , Bochum , Bonn , Braunschweig / Wolfsburg , Chemnitz , Dresden , Duisburg - Essen , Düsseldorf , Flensburg , Frankfurt am Main , Freiburg im Breisgau , Flensburg, Friedrichshafen , Halle (Saale) , Hamburg , Hanover, Heidelberg , Hohenheim , Karlsruhe , Kassel , Konstanz , Cologne , Leipzig , Lüneburg , Mainz , Mannheim , Marburg , Munich , Münster , Nuremberg , Passau , Regensburg , Tübingen , Ulm / Neu-Ulm , Wernigerode , Witten ) the local non-profit associations of students from the local universities and technical colleges . The students organize themselves in the local associations, but receive extensive support from the gGmbH through events and workshops. In 2013, Rock Your Life! Schweiz GmbH founded, in which the German gGmbH holds a 25% stake. In Switzerland, Rock is Your Life! meanwhile represented at eight locations. In 2017 Rock Your Life! Netherlands and currently has a location in The Hague.

The mentors are matched with the students (mentees) via "speed dating". In the first year of the relationship, the couples receive three two-day training courses on the topics of mentoring, development of potential and career orientation . These trainings are given by specially qualified Rock Your Life! Given to coaches. A mentoring relationship comprises several meetings per month at which the student researches career information with the pupil, writes applications, discusses course material or pursues other activities (e.g. sports ).

Rock your life provides the concept, content support and other services (e.g. IT platforms) for the clubs as part of a social franchise . The initiative is supported by a corporate network with partner companies. These are also used to provide internships and apprenticeships to the participants. In 2014, the first cross-location cooperation “Zukunftskick” was started with the discounter Penny . Rock your life! Locations in southern Germany benefited from the offers of a company tour, an internship and the simulation of the company's application training. In 2015, this cooperation was expanded to 18 cities across Germany.

In 2017 Rock Your Life started! a cooperation with the Airbus Foundation in Munich. The so-called Flying Challenge program is implemented worldwide by the Airbus Foundation, with Rock Your Life! a partner in Germany. As part of the Flying Challenge, the existing mentoring pairs will each be assigned an Airbus employee as a mentor for six months. At the end of the program, the participants were able to experience a flight in a propeller plane or a helicopter. The cooperation was expanded to include the Hamburg location in spring 2018. In winter 2018 the program will take place in Munich, Augsburg and Friedrichshafen.

In spring 2018, Rock Your Life! also a cooperation with Starbucks (AmRest). At the pilot locations in Bonn and Leipzig, the mentoring couples were given an insight into the company. As part of the so-called Barista Day, interested students were able to get to know work at Starbucks for a day. In winter 2018 the cooperation will be expanded to ten locations: Berlin, Bonn, Dresden, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Cologne, Leipzig, Münster, Nuremberg and Stuttgart.

Against the background of high drop-out rates in training, demographic change and increasing challenges for companies with the so-called Generation Y , the ROCK YOUR LIFE! gGmbH expanded in 2015 to include another program module: ROCK YOUR COMPANY !. Young employees are supported and encouraged in their personal and professional development through in-house mentoring and professional qualifications. The main target groups are trainees, young professionals and refugees. Similar to mentoring for students, the focus is primarily on developing soft skills . Central topics include the development of personal and social skills, getting to know and using your own strengths, setting and achieving goals as well as communication and working in teams.

history

After a panel discussion on educational equity with Peer Steinbrück , twelve students from the Zeppelin University founded Rock Your Life! as a pilot project at the Friedrichshafen site. The project was praised in various local and national media and received several prizes and awards. Due to the positive feedback and initial successes at the pilot location, the non-profit GmbH was founded in order to establish several locations. Support was provided by the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt , the Vodafone Foundation, and the Zeppelin University Society, among others . In the years that followed, Rock Your Life! record great growth. The number of locations grew to over 45 within 5 years, and 168 trainers have already been qualified to conduct training courses. The non-profit company's supporters include the Karl Schlecht Foundation, the Credit Suisse EMEA Foundation, the Wübben Foundation, the Town & Country Foundation and the Germany Rounds Up funding initiative.

Prizes and awards

• "Works!" - 2015 seal from Phineo for special effectiveness
• Excellent place in 2012 in the land of ideas
• Awarded as "University Pearl" by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft in January 2011
• Winner of the Deichmann Prize against Youth Unemployment 2010
• startsocial Bundessieger 2009 under the patronage of Chancellor Angela Merkel
• Winner of the Young Leaders ideas competition organized by the BMW Herbert Quandt Foundation
• FES Former Engagement Prize 2009
• “Be a Futurist” grant from dm-drogerie markt GmbH + Co. KG
• HypoVereinsbank project grant

Web links

• rockyourlife.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://rockyourlife.de/das-sind-wir/standorte/
2. ↑ https://rockyourlife.de/informationen
3. ↑ www.transparency.de ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 6, 2014 
4. ↑ http://www.aachener-nachrichten.de/lokales/aachen/rock-your-life-speed-dating-fuer-die-berufliche-zukunft-1.970634
5. ↑ http://www.penny.de/unternehmen/nachhaltigkeit/was-macht-penny/zukunftskick/
6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ http://rockyourcompany.de/
8. ↑ Take your life in hand
9. ↑ Take your life in hand . In: Die Zeit , No. 23/2010
10. ↑ focus.de
11. ↑ Schwäbische Post, 2010 (PDF; 231 kB)
12. ↑ Project wants to build bridges on suedkurier.de
13. ↑ https://rockyourlife.de/informationen#standorte
14. ↑ rockyourlife.de/partner
15. ↑ http://rockyourlife.de/images/uploads/2015_03_25_RYL!_Phineo_Siegel.pdf
16. ↑ Land of Ideas ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
17. ↑ Stifterverband ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
18. ^ Deichmann sponsorship award
19. ↑ startsocial  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
20. ↑ BMW Foundation ( Memento of the original dated November 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
21. ↑ engagementpreis.de
22. ↑ sei-ein-futurist.de