Team

Tomáš Sacher is responsible for the foundation's strategic and operational business and leads our diverse team. His aim is to further strengthen the foundation's European outlook and networks.  

Nadia Zitouni takes care of all financial matters and all questions relating to personnel.

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

Jürgen Hübner cares about technical infrastructure and IT.

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.

Alina appreciates the international environment of the foundation. Next to her studies, she supports the office management and the department human resources.

Xenia Seekircher supports the finance department with conceptual and operational tasks.

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

Amélie supports the managing director and office management as a student assistant.

Dennis Vogel is responsible for ensuring an efficient work environment and assisting the IT department with technical issues.

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.

Emre Çoğlan manages our social media channels as a communications manager and supports editorial work and content planning. An intersectional approach is particularly important to him.

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

Nicole Maas supports the planning and realization of discussion events as a student assistant. Her primary focus is on organizing the Youth Congress for the European Election 2024 and coordinating the Schwarzkopf-Europe-Award ceremony.

Josephine Steffens plays a significant role as a project manager in planning and successfully carrying out our events. It is particularly important to her to consider and represent a variety of perspectives.

Luise Heemann actively supports the team as a volunteer in organising events and awards.

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

Dr. Asmaa Soliman is the head of the Young Islam Conference. She has researched, taught, and coordinated projects on Islam in Europe, diversity, and intercultural understanding. She leads the JIK with the goal of advancing peer education and the European focus even further.

Jasemin Seven is responsible for the European expansion of JIK with a focus on strategic communication. With her work, Jasemin wants to contribute to a post-migrant and racism-critical Europe.

Fikri Anıl Altıntaş coordinates our travel grants and implements racism-critical educational offers for children and youth welfare as part of the competence network. He also communicates those offers on our Instagram channel "Beyond A Single Story".

Seren Başoğul is an expert in the field of empowerment. She coordinates the networking activities of the Young Islam Conference and supports our diverse JIK members in getting involved. She is also responsible for the Summer Academy and, together with Caroline Haufe, for the Media Academy.

Veronika Gunne is the consultant of the Project Management. She keeps track of numbers and finances.

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

Svea Klee works in the areas of Networks, Communications and Europeanisation. She focused on the intersectionality of different forms of discrimination during an internship at the Consortium on Gender Security and Human Rights and is currently studying International Relations at the University of Groningen.

Vinya Mehta is responsible for outreach and policy at the Young Islam Conference. She studied politics, religion, gender studies and law in London and has expertise in migration and intersectional discrimination. Amplifying multiply marginalised anti-racist perspectives is particularly important in her advocacy work. 

Lena Strehmann leads the team of Understanding Europe. She is a trained diversity manager and works as a strategic thinker and participation expert on the future of the educational network.

Daniela Cappuccio is mainly responsible for the Coordinators, the Transnational Training for Trainers, and project evaluation of Understanding Europe. She is a lawyer and has been a volunteer of the network since 2016.

Yasmine Djidel supports our team, especially Daniela Cappuccio, with the organization and support of the transnational network. She recently graduated in International and European law from the University of Angers, France.

Marlene Gärtner organises the European Summer School and is responsible for qualification, transnational networking and evaluation. She is enthusiastic about scientific findings and committed to the exchange between research and practice.

Moritz Littbarski supports Understanding Europe as a student assistant, in particular with the implementation of the European Summer School and public relations.

Rebekka Pfennig is responsible for the European Summer School and supports the publication of the Educational Briefing. As a former trainer, she has known the network since 2018 and is always inspired by the political spirit and commitment of young people.

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.

Luke Bishop 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.

Conor Comiskey actively supports the team on all activities of the Climate Youth Action Plan

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

Irene Arahal is a PhD student joining the foundation through our collaboration with the IP-PAD project, a doctoral network focused on researching the political beliefs and attitudes of younger generations. As a member of the EYP team, she contributes to Impact Evaluation and supports activities related to climate change and sustainable practices.

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.

Joshua FitzGerald 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.

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.