Who?
All Bertelsmann employees, who want to learn future-ready-skills and are at least 18 years old may apply for the “Scholarship Program.”
When?
Application Phase:
October 1 – November 30, 2026
Coursera:
January 13, 2027 – December 31, 2027
Udacity:
January 13, 2027 – August 15, 2027
Harvard Online (tbd):
Group 1: January 13 – February 10, 2027
Group 2: April 7 - May 5, 2027
Group 3: September 1 – September 29, 2027
Where?
The application has to be made proactively.
Please visit:
Info Material
FAQs
All important questions answered in one document:
Presentations
Master Presentation
An overview with all available slides. Select the slides that are important for you and amend them to your needs:
Download Scholarship Master Presentation
Download Leading Teams in Times of AI Master Presentation
Scholarship at a glance
All important information in one presentation:
Download Scholarship at a glance
Udacity Details
Udacity Nanodegree Syllabi:
// AI Programming with Python Beginner
// Microsoft Agentic AI Intermediate
// Anthropic Engineer Intermediate
// AI Secruity Engineer Advanced
Detailed Nanodegree Overviews
Marketing Material
Lock Screens
Use the different images and deploy them as lock screens on your employees' computers. If you have the possibility to change the lock screens during the application phase, we recommend to change the screens to "Last chance" in the end.
NOT ALL SUPERHEROES WEAR CAPES. SOME BUILD CAPABILITIES.
Download: Lock Screen_Woman_Last Chance
Download: Lock Screen_Man_Last Chance
Monitor Slides
Use the various images and deploy them as digital posters on all the monitors at your locations! If you would like to make best use of it, we recommend to change the screens from time to time.
NOT ALL SUPERHEROES WEAR CAPES. SOME BUILD CAPABILITIES.
- Download: Monitor_Woman
- Download: Monitor_Man
- Download: Monitor_Woman_Last Chance
- Download: Monitor_Man_Last Chance
Montior for each provider
Poster
Use the images and deploy them as digital or printed posters at your locations!
Teams Background
Feel free to use these backgrounds in your Teams calls!
Download: Teams Background_General
More Pictures
Reporting
LEVIO Reporting
Divisional Learning Ambassadors can track their participants by creating peoplenet reports. Please find the peoplenet item IDs in this overview:
Bertelsmann Scholarship
Reporting Round 1: 2025/ 2026: Download peoplenet reporting overview here
Employee Scholarship
Reporting Round 3: 2024/ 2025: Download peoplenet reporting overview here
Reporting Round 2: 2023/ 2024: Download peoplenet reporting overview here
Reporting Round 1: 2022/ 2023: Download peoplenet reporting overview here
Coursera Reporting
Divisional Learning Ambassadors can track the completed courses of their participants by creating the Item Status report.
Enclosed please find the description of how to run the report.
