Team

Seyran Bostancı is responsible for the foundation's strategic and operational business and leads our team.

Edel manages and optimizes the organization’s IT resources and services.

Ilija Jerković is responsible for driving fundraising processes and coordinating partnership management in effort to rally resources and support for the vision of a Europe of openness, solidarity and democracy.

Judith Müller is taking care of our team and is managing the HR department.

João takes care of the bookkeeping and the daily income and expenses, keeping track of the numbers and many small steps in between.

Friedrich Landenberger is responsible for communicating our projects, topics & events to the outside world. It is particularly important to him to strenghten young, diverse voices and perspectives.

Darius Elahi oversees events at the foundation. His goal is to create exciting and informative formats on various political topics.

As part of the foundation's event team, Annika Seidel ensures that the various event formats run smoothly. It is particularly important to her to amplify the voices of young people and create an inclusive, respectful environment where diverse perspectives are taken into account.

Thao My supports our external communication as a volunteer. Close to the target group, she helps us to stay up-to-date.

Jonathan Leismann actively supports the team as a volunteer in the planning, organization, and implementation of events.

Caroline Haufe is responsible for public relations at the Young Islam Conference and implements the Media Academy together with Seren Başoğul.

Julia Steenpaß supports the Outreach and Policy department as a project assistant. She is currently studying Eastern European Studies and is working on international democratization processes and diversity in digital spaces. 

Armin Begić manages the project Untold Stories of Togetherness: Muslim-Jewish Alliances and Remembrance Culture and coordinates the European travel grants. He studied Islamic Theological Studies and Gender Studies in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Amman and London. His expertise includes anti-discrimination work, interreligious learning, genocide research, political education and religion and gender.

Andrei Chitu takes care of the bookkeeping, finances and administration for the YouPA Team and also manages the Project "Moving Europe - Negociating Legacies of Migration at the Museum".

Nora Korte is responsible for the Fellowship programme of Understanding Europe. Further, she is in charge of the European Summer School and of the conception and implementation of the qualification strategy.

Leonor Costa supports the Understanding Europe team as an ESC Volunteer, offering organizational and network support.

Leading the team of the EYP’s International OfficeAnya turned her passion for youth engagement into profession. She coordinates the strategic and operative development of the network together with the youth-led international Board and represents the organisation towards external stakeholders and partners.

Saskia is responsible for the International Seesions of EYP, connecting young engaged people from all over Europe.

Anne oversees the Climate Youth Action Plan, a network-wide initiative focused on European climate and energy policy and she works with alumni. Within her portfolio, she coordinates the EYP's activities related to climate projets and capacity building.

Michelle Poltier coordinates all EYP events, projects, and activities linked to the European elections 2024. She is also responsible for the project management of the local European Youth Event (EYE) in Berlin.

Annelou Snippe oversees the Youth Together for Arctic Futures project, which aims to connect and empower European and Arctic youth to advocate for good climate and nature policy.

As a project manager with a background in media production for young audiences, Nadja Brandt is responsible for the human rights project FOCUS, as well as the regularly occurring capacity building events for young people in the EYP network.

Luka Đorđević supports the communication channels of the EYP, overseeing and creating posts for social media, creating content for the website, and managing communications inboxes. Luka also helps with capturing and creating content for overall programmes organised by the EYP's International Office.

Beatriz is working with the human rights project FOCUS and for the regular events on competence development for young people in the EYP network.

Seán Burke O'Donoghue facilitates the governance of the EYP Network. This includes organising the bi-annual Board of National Committees Meeting which gathers approximately 40 national EYP entities to discuss the policies and charter of the EYP, as well as the four annual Governing Body Meetings, where the EYP's youth board discuss the strategic direction of the Network. Joshua also manages the EYP's impact assessment through the EYP census, and provides general support to EYP members and national entities.

Julia Walczak is responsible for training events, participant management, and the evaluation processes of International Sessions. These are flagship events bringing together young people from all over Europe to discuss and formulate solutions to issues affecting Europe in the current climate.