Katharina Kleinschnitger M.A.
Research Associate | Doctoral Candidate | Project consultant PaEGIE | Program Area Coordinator emergenCITY | Managing Director AEI e.V.
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From April 2016 until April 2023, Katharina Kleinschnitger was a research associate at the Chair for “ Comparative politics and European Integration” led by Prof. Dr Michèle Knodt. She was also Program Area Coordinator and Scientist at the LOEWE Centre emergenCITY, Network Manager of the COST Action ENTER funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the EU and Managing Director of the Arbeitskreises Europäische Integration e. V. (AEI).
In addition to her work and teaching at the Institute, she was project coordinator in the BMWi-funded joint project “PaEGIE: Participative Energy Transformation” of the TU Darmstadt in cooperation with Fraunhofer IGD, which she continues to support as project advisor. Previously, she was Managing Editor and Copy Editor of the German Political Science Quarterly (PVS), published by the Board of the German Political Science Association (DVPW). She also worked as a research fellow in the project ”Crisis, Conflict and Critical Diplomacy” (C3EU). Katharina is a doctoral candidate at the Institute and conducts research on media perceptions of the EU's external relations within the framework of the Eastern Partnership.
• European Foreign and Security Policy and European Neighbourhood Policy
• Political communication
• Media and Politics
• Image and perceptions studies
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08/2021 – 04/2023 |
COST Action ENTER Network Manager, ENTER: EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities, COST European Cooperation in Science & Technology, funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union |
| 08/2021 – 03/2023 | Managing Director of the Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration e. V. |
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08/2021 – 04/2023 |
Project consultant for the joint project “PaEGIE: Participative Energy Transformation”, funded by the BMWi, TU Darmstadt and Fraunhofer IGD |
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01/2021 – 04/2023 |
Program Area Coordinator and Scientist, emergenCITY, LOEWE Centre funded by the State of Hesse, TU Darmstadt, University of Kassel and Philipps-Universität Marburg |
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04/2020 – 04/2023 |
Research associate in the project “ Communicating the EU to Europe at times of Covid-19 crisis: Comparative Study of Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden and Germany” in cooperation with Prof. Natalia Chaban, University of Canterbury and TU Darmstadt, i. a. |
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04/2016 – 04/2023 |
Research fellow at the Chair “ Comparative politics and European Integration” led by Prof. Dr Michèle Knodt, TU Darmstadt |
| 09/2022 | Virtual Mobility Grant (VMG), scholarship of the COST Association, The European Cooperation in Science and Technology |
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11/2020 – 07/2021 |
Project coordinator of the joint project “PaEGIE: Participative Energy Transformation”, funded by the BMWi, TU Darmstadt and Fraunhofer IGD |
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04/2020 – 12/2020 |
Research fellow at the Chair “ Comparative Politics and German Government” led by Prof. Dr. Christian Stecker, TU Darmstadt |
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06/2016 – 12/2019 |
Managing Editor and Copy Editor of the German Political Science Quarterly (PVS), TU Darmstadt and Springer VS |
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08/2016 – 10/2018 |
Research fellow in the project “Crisis, Conflict and Critical Diplomacy: EU Perceptions in Ukraine and Israel/Palestine (C3EU)”, TU Darmstadt and University of Canterbury |
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11/2017 |
Teaching Award “Athene-Preis für Gute Lehre”, TU Darmstadt and Carlo and Karin Giersch Foundation (together with Michèle Knodt and Anne Hofmeister) |
| 08/2016 | Jean Monnet Award for M.A. thesis, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (CEDI), TU Darmstadt and University of Mainz |
| 03/2016 | M.A. Governance and Public Policy (with distinction) and TuE certificate “Technology and International Development”; M.A. thesis: The media perception of EU external relations |
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03/2012 – 03/2016 |
Research assistant at the Chairs of International Relations, Political Theory, and Comparative Politics and European Integration, Institute for Political Science, TU Darmstadt |
| 05/2014 – 07/2015 | Research assistant in Subproject VI, “Competence Development through Interdisciplinary and International Cooperation from the Start” (KIVA), TU Darmstadt |
| 03/2014 | Joint B.A. German Studies and Political Science; B.A. thesis: Why the European Union is no consociational democracy |
