FASPE Business Fellowship 2026
The FASPE Business Fellowship is an international, interdisciplinary training program that supports early-career professionals and executives from the business world in making responsible ethical decisions in their everyday working lives.
The Hans and Berthold Finkelstein Foundation is sponsoring the fellowship for the first time in 2026, enabling emerging business leaders to engage intensively with issues of professional ethics in a historical and contemporary context.
The program focuses on the question of what responsibility economic actors bear in society—and what consequences a lack of ethical orientation can have. Based on the historical role of companies, managers, and professionals in the Nazi era, the fellows analyze the scope for action, motives, and dilemmas of that time and apply these insights to today's professional situations.
The starting part of the program is a two-week study trip to Germany and Poland. At historical sites—including places of forced labor and the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp—participants work directly at the authentic locations using the “power of place” approach. In addition, a curriculum of case studies, moderated discussions, and reflection sessions deepens the examination of modern ethical challenges in business. Interdisciplinary exchange with fellows from other FASPE professional cohorts, in this case, law or and technology fellows, further broadens perspectives.
With over 1,000 alumni worldwide, FASPE has a strong network that offers fellows long-term continuing education, international contacts, and other formats for professional exchange. The program thus makes a lasting contribution to a value-oriented corporate culture.
