Camino - Werkstatt für Fortbildung, Praxisbegleitung und Forschung im sozialen Bereich gGmbH

What Camino - Werkstatt für Fortbildung, Praxisbegleitung und Forschung im sozialen Bereich gGmbH does

Camino - Werkstatt für Fortbildung, Praxisbegleitung und Forschung im sozialen Bereich gGmbH is a Berlin-based non-profit research institute (gGmbH) founded in 1995, operating as a practice-oriented social research and consulting organization with 16 employees. It delivers three core service lines—Evaluation, Research, and Training/Consulting—organized around four thematic areas: societal cohesion and social participation, democracy and human rights, violence prevention, and radicalization prevention. To date, the institute has executed 215 projects and produced 183 publications, reflecting a deep specialization in applied social research rather than a software- or platform-driven model.

The client base is concentrated in the public sector and large civil society institutions, including the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ), the Berlin Commission against Violence, LADS Berlin, EU programs (Erasmus+, Horizon 2020), the Goethe-Institut, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Brot für die Welt, DB InfraGO AG, and the Berliner Fußball-Verband. Revenue is generated through project-based contracts, public tenders, and grant-funded programs; as a non-profit gGmbH, surpluses are reinvested into operations rather than distributed. The organization is owner-managed by Managing Director Dorte Schaffranke and Senior Advisor Sabine Behn, operates without external investors, and sits within a broader Camino Group that includes a separate affiliated entity (Camino - Institut für gesellschaftliche Teilhabe und soziale Integration GmbH).

Name

Camino - Werkstatt für Fortbildung, Praxisbegleitung und Forschung im sozialen Bereich gGmbH

Legal name

Camino - Werkstatt für Fortbildung, Praxisbegleitung und Forschung im sozialen Bereich gGmbH

Website

https://camino-werkstatt.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Camino is a Berlin-based non-profit research institute (gGmbH) founded in 1995, providing evaluation, research, and training services on social cohesion, democracy, violence prevention, and radicalization prevention for government agencies and civil society organizations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Program Evaluation and Research

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (541720), Human Rights Organizations (813311)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Counterterrorism & Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) Cooperation (BPADAFAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Human Rights Monitoring, Documentation & Advocacy (BPADAGAK), Civilian Protection & Stabilization Operations (BPADAFAF)

Keywords

• Social program evaluation
• Violence prevention research
• Scientific monitoring services
• Democracy promotion consulting
• Social science research

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Project-Based Research and Evaluation Services: Commissioned research, evaluation, and scientific accompaniment of public and civil society programs, funded by government ministries, EU programs, federal states, and municipalities

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Camino delivers commissioned evaluation and scientific accompaniment of public and civil society programs, applied practice-oriented social science research, and training and practice consulting for practitioners in the social sector. Its work focuses on violence prevention, radicalization prevention, democracy and human rights, and social cohesion, including dedicated operations such as the Arbeitsstelle Gewaltprävention on behalf of the Berlin Commission against Violence and recurring Berlin monitoring studies on youth violence and queerphobic violence.

Product overview

Camino is a practice-oriented research institute organized as two closely cooperating GmbH companies: Camino – Werkstatt für Fortbildung, Praxisbegleitung und Forschung im sozialen Bereich gGmbH and Camino – Institut für gesellschaftliche Teilhabe und soziale Integration GmbH. The organization operates as a unified service portfolio centered on three core offerings: (1) Evaluation and scientific monitoring of social sector programs and projects, helping civil society and governmental clients assess and improve their initiatives; (2) Practice-oriented social science research addressing societal challenges in violence prevention, radicalization, democracy, and social cohesion; and (3) Training and practice consulting services including self-evaluation support and organizational development. Its thematic work areas include Societal Cohesion and Social Participation, Democracy and Human Rights, Violence Prevention (operated through its dedicated Arbeitsstelle Gewaltprävention), and Radicalization Prevention. Research products include the Berlin Monitoring of Violent Delinquency and Berlin Monitoring of Anti-Queer Violence.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Evaluation und wissenschaftliche Begleitung (Evaluation and Scientific Monitoring)
• Praxisnahe Forschung (Practice-Oriented Research)
• Fortbildung und Praxisberatung (Training and Practice Consulting)
• Arbeitsstelle Gewaltprävention (Office for Violence Prevention)
• Berliner Monitoring Gewaltdelinquenz (Berlin Monitoring of Violent Delinquency)
• Berliner Monitoring queerfeindliche Gewalt (Berlin Monitoring of Anti-Queer Violence)

Quantifiable outcome

• Conducted 215 documented projects spanning evaluation, research, and scientific accompaniment
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• UnivationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative partner in evaluation projects, specifically mentioned in the Evaluation of Kiezorientierte Gewaltprävention (neighborhood-oriented violence prevention)
• Landeskommission Berlin gegen GewaltcoreOthersLong-term commissioning client providing sustained funding for the Berlin Office for Violence Prevention and multiple evaluation projects since 2013
• Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und JugendcoreOthersMajor federal commissioning body for the Bundesprogramm Demokratie leben! and related programs, funding multiple long-term evaluation and scientific accompaniment projects
• Landesstelle für Gleichbehandlung - gegen Diskriminierung (LADS) BerlincoreOthersBerlin state body commissioning monitoring studies on queerphobic violence, discrimination in healthcare, and queer safety strategy development
• Europäische Kommission / EU-ProgrammecoreOthersEU funding for international research projects on sport inclusion (SPIN), extremism prevention, and violence prevention across member states

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Deutsches Jugendinstitut (DJI): Germany's leading social-science research institute on children, youth, and families; conducts applied research, evaluation, and policy accompaniment for federal and state programs in overlapping thematic areas (youth violence, participation, social cohesion).
• Institut für Sozialarbeit und Sozialpädagogik e.V. (ISS): Frankfurt-based social work research and evaluation institute; explicitly cited in Camino leadership biographies as a prior affiliation for senior staff and operates in the same federal/state program evaluation market (violence prevention, social participation).
• Univation: Cologne-based evaluation and research institute named in Camino's disclosed project work as the joint evaluator of Kiezorientierte Gewaltprävention in Berlin — directly comparable consulting offering in social program evaluation.
• Institut für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft (IDZ Jena): Jena-based institute conducting research and evaluation on right-wing extremism, group-focused enmity, and democracy promotion in Germany; operates in the same federal program ecosystem (Demokratie leben!) as Camino.
• Cultures Interactive e.V. Berlin-based NGO specializing in violence prevention, democratic culture, and youth work with parallel thematic focus to Camino's violence-prevention and extremism-prevention mandates, often working with the same federal programs.
• Violence Prevention Network gGmbH: Germany-wide NGO delivering violence-prevention and deradicalization programs (including exit counseling) that Camino evaluates and scientifically accompanies; directly comparable thematic mission.
• Kompetenzzentrum für antisemitismuskritische Bildung und Forschung (ZWST): Berlin-based competence center for antisemitism-critical education and research; cited in Camino's senior team biographies and operates in the adjacent field of group-focused enmity and human-rights education funded by federal programs.

Broad incumbents

• Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB): Major Berlin-based social science research institute of much larger scale; multiple Camino team members previously worked at WZB and it operates in adjacent research areas (inequality, migration, political participation) but with a broader academic rather than applied-evaluation remit.

Emerging players

• Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung (IKG Bielefeld): Bielefeld University institute focused on interdisciplinary research on conflict and violence; thematic overlap with Camino's violence-prevention and extremism work, but operates primarily in academic research rather than commissioned program evaluation.
• Demokratie und Vielfalt – Politische Bildung und Demokratieförderung: Federal program consortium partner operating in the same Demokratie leben! ecosystem as Camino, with comparable thematic focus on democracy promotion, diversity, and extremism prevention at the federal/state funding interface.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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