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“Income-related expenses (Werbungskosten)” vs. “special expenses (Sonderausgaben)” – Which costs can students deduct from their taxes? In Germany, costs that result from the effort to secure or maintain income can be deducted from taxes as income-related expenses (Werbungskosten).  This includes costs incurred during studies and training, e.g. for working materials, textbooks, laptops or tuition fees. […] READ

Our Indian working student Soundar Sellamuthu has just returned from a business trip to India with CHANCEN International founder Batya Blankers. In our interview, we speak to Soundar about the reasons for doing this trip, the possibility to offer Income Share Agreements in India and how he got involved in this project. Soundar, you have […] READ

The new semester has started and we just had to celebrate it with you. For this reason the CHANCEN team invited the whole community to a Semester Opening Party! Together we toasted to the beginning of the semester, the successful start of the BildungsCHANCEN bond and our growing community. In our redecorated office space we […] READ

CHANCEN eG issues a bearer bond in August. Why actually?  CHANCEN eG promotes equal opportunities. In 2019/20 we want to support a multitude of other students to finance their desired education. To finance this, investors can subscribe to our BildungsCHANCEN bond from the 6th of August. This bearer bond is, in principle, a loan that […] READ

Dear Eva, we are happy to introduce you as a member of CHANCEN eG! You recently completed the boot camp of neue fische in the area of Data Science in Hamburg. How did you get to the boot camp and what did you do before? I am currently about to finish my doctorate in physical […] READ

On the 4th of May students, investors, university partners and the CHANCEN eG team met for the Annual General Meeting of the cooperative in their partner school International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin. Aligned with the international Star Wars day “May the Fourth”, this year’s Annual General Meeting addressed was held under the banner “May the Fourth […] READ

Hello Babra, we would like to welcome you to the CHANCEN Team and are happy to announce that you are our new Head of IT in Rwanda. Please tell us a little about yourself. Since when are you interested in IT? I am the 4th of five siblings and I am the only one who […] READ

I have already studied media informatics and have already gained some experience on the development side. I am particularly interested in visual representation and design. However, I always missed out on the design part and can finally combine my two interests by studying interaction design. I am very happy that I decided to study at […] READ

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  From November 15th to December 31, 2018, we ran a Crowdfunding campaign for students in Rwanda. We’d think to thank all of our donors and supporters for its success: we collected 22,992 € with which we can enable 15 new female students to study at the renowned Akilah Institute in Rwanda in 2019! After […] READ