Ceviz Fellowship · Cohort 01 opening
Your first real step
into a career, building
something people use
Ceviz Fellowship is ten weeks. Two teams of five, two real organizations, and open source software they could never afford to buy.
- 10
- Weeks, one cohort
- 2
- Teams of five
- 100%
- Open source
- Organization
- Youth NGO, Ankara
- Track
- Web
- Team
- 1 PM · 3 dev · 1 design
Week 5 checkpoint
Something works. Scope holds.
Built for
A fellowship that
ships, not simulates
Bootcamps hand out toy projects. We hand you an organization with a real deadline.
How it worksTeams of five, not study groups
Mentors who show up
Weekly office hours. Not a mailing list.
A v1, not a platform
One problem, solved well, shipped on time.
Mixed by design
Half Turkish, half international. Remote, in English.
The ten weeks
Build time is
four to five weeks
Pretending otherwise is how student projects die at 80% complete.
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Onboarding
Meet the organization
Lock scope
Build
Checkpoint
Build
Build
Testing
Handover prep
Demo day
Open books
Two-thirds of every
dollar goes to fellows
A cohort costs $4,000. Nothing goes to owners; leftovers roll into the next cohort.
- Fellow stipends
- $2,500 · 62.5%
- Program management
- $1,000 · 25%
- Operations
- $500 · 12.5%
Cohort 01 runs without stipends. We will never promise a stipend we cannot pay.
- Fellows
- 10
- Projects
- 2
- Mentors
- 3 volunteers
- Total budget
- $4,000
- Per project
- $2,000
For organizations
A team of five for
$2,000
Two projects per cohort — one paying, one funded by sponsors.
- One point of contact, about an hour a week
- Scope locked with you in week three
- You own the repository and the docs
Left half-finished?
Fixed timeline, hard checkpoint at week five.
Who maintains it?
You do — you own the repo and the docs.
How much of our time?
One hour a week, one person.
Not a fit: organizations handling sensitive personal data — health, child protection, shelters. We say no to those, on purpose.