OUR STORY
Before Ferhat and Asli Engel decided to open Engelnest Coworking, our building used to be a pallet store owned by their father Eyüp. The siblings wanted to offer a coworking space for the creative and innovative people in Schöneberg: a ‘nest’ with a productive and supportive atmosphere, where members could find everything they needed to develop their projects.
In 2019 the building switched from a 36-year-old pallet factory to the now Engelnest coworking space in Berlin. The industrial look and the pallets stayed while the business changed to a more dynamic, innovative and people-oriented one, contributing this way to the development of the Rote Insel neighbourhood in Schöneberg. This is located between the Bergmankiez and Akazienstrasse, both popular for their wide gastronomic offer and diverse local stores.
In March 2020, Dani joined as the Communications & Community Manager, supporting our content creation, identity and catering to our member’s needs. Soon the pandemic hit and as a new coworking space, we saw our plans to grow our community stall. Luckily those days are in the past – every month brought new members looking for office space in Berlin – and our community is conformed by +40 members from 17 companies.
Ferhat Engel
Co-Founder
Engineer and former project consultant for multinationals, you can always find him at Engelnest building or fixing something.
Freya von Hase
Office Management
Costume designer and visual marketing designer. Mother. And she fixes what Ferhat has already fixed.
Aslı Engel
Co-Founder
Media producer, entrepreneur and owner of Galactic Media. Based in Istanbul and Berlin.
Irmak Dalgün
Business Development
Social Anthropology graduate who is passionate about business and marketing.
OUR community
ENTREPRENEURS, FREELANCERS, TEAMS AND INNOVATIVE THINKERS
Infralab Berlin:
a coworking & co-creation project of the Berlin infrastructure companies: BSR, BVG, Berliner Wasserbetriebe, GASAG, Stromnetz Berlin and Vattenfall Wärme Berlin. Thay work together for the urban development of Berlin and the implementation of sustainable and smart city initiatives.
Realtime Robotics:
Through sensorimotor capabilities, ease of programming and design, and safe human-robot collaboration, Realtime Robotics is transforming automation with robotics featuring risk-aware driving, high-productivity multi-robot work cells and automated robot vision that continuously calibrates itself. RR is a US company based in Boston.
Website Connection
a multinational team of web developers and designers that are ready to create from scratch or optimize your WordPress website and rank it in the first Google positions with the right SEO.
Restlos Glücklich:
a social non-profit organization whose mission is to raise awareness about food’s value, climate-friendly nutrition and food waste and how to create a sustainable consumption. They educate through community projects, interactive activities and workshops, in which they use ‚rescued‘ food donated from organic supermarkets.
Online Fitness Academy:
100% online platform offering three programs to become a licensed fitness trainer, starting with the license C, until the A. This is the highest that can be achieved in the fitness industry, allowing you to work in all professional paths in the fitness and health sector.
Off University:
Through free university-recognized online courses, it creates new strategies to uphold and sustain academic life and knowledge threatened by anti-democratic and authoritarian regimes. It is committed to a vision of peace in the world and to living together in diversity and therefore seeks to develop emancipatory education-research activities that are less hierarchical and more democratic.
Beys marketing & media:
a consulting agency with more than 20 years working on ethnomarketing, human resources and market research for major German brands.
Userspots:
a UX expert company providing for more than 10 years research, testing, design, strategy and software services in its offices in Istanbul, Eskişehir and Berlin. They co-created the first UX Master in Turkey, while also teaching through their Online Academy.