About Eurosoc#Digital
The centre of all EUROSOC#DIGITAL activities is our Berlin office. Here, we develop new project ideas and organise their implementation. We are supported by our freelance cooperators, our partners and advisors. Therefore, we are able to solve complex and technologically demanding tasks and accomplish sophisticated projects.
Our Team
Dr. Laszlo Z. Kovats
Managing partner
Laszlo is EUROSOC#DIGITAL’s managing partner and is heading its consulting services. He focuses on modernising municipalities’ administrative processes with modern information and communication technology. Besides, Laszlo also teaches at the universities of St. Gallen and Basel in Switzerland and at the “Center for European Integration Studies” in Bonn (Germany).
Holger Haberstock
Managing Partner
Holger is responsible for our software-based projects as well as our co-creation and participation formats. His expertise lies in sustainability research, system thinking, foresight, scenario planning, process modelling and agile methods. Holger is the contact person for the CUTLER project.
Katharina Sewening
Project Manager (maternity leave)
Katharina is responsible for the civic education projects of EUROSOC#DIGITAL. With her extensive experience she can contribute in the conception and implementation of various civic education projects for schools (simulation games, future workshops, small game methods), intercultural education projects (theatre, writing workshop, role plays) as well as further training for teachers.
Janosch Ptassek
Project Manager
Janosch designs and conducts educational projects based on various participation formats such as simulation games and future workshops on political topics. He works in particular on topics such as fundamental democratic values, cohesion policy, and the European Green Deal. Janosch attaches great interest to the joint and interactive negotiation of points of conflict.
Mareike Meyer
Project Manager
Mareike works in EUROSOC#DIGITAL’s area of political education and mainly deals with the simulation game EUROPER. She is convinced about the importance of public participation and aims at improving citizen participation in political processes. Mareike is particularly interested in the EU and its impact on national policy-making as well as in the topic of sustainable development.
Katharina Brunner
Project Assistant
In course of her psychology studies Katharina could learn about what people are moved by and why. In combination with her minor political science she is most interested in promoting political participation. As project assistant of EUROSOC#DIGITAL she now has the chance to develop and implement projects aiming to achieve this goal.
Hanna Schneider
Freelance cooperator
Although Hanna moved from the Berlin office to Brussels in order to do her PhD on European and international refugee policies, she stays with EUROSOC#DIGITAL as a freelance cooperator. In this respect, she predominately supports us in our projects that centre on European asylum policies while at the same time explaining to high school students how important common practices in all EU member states are.
Katharina Barsch
Freelance cooperator
Kaba had been a permanent staff member of EUROSOC#DIGITAL until 2014 and has conducted more than 200 simulation games. Then she decided to complete a doctorate at the university of Basel (Switzerland) where she elaborates on the European financial crisis. Nevertheless, Kaba has remained a valuable associate to our company and is supporting our team in statistical analyses.
Our Advisors
Dagmar Schmidt
proven communications expert
Dagmar had been working for the „Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit“ (GIZ) in Africa before she decided to return to Germany in order to promote civil society engagement and citizens’ political participation. As a proven communications expert, Dagmar advises EUROSOC#DIGITAL in the area of civil society mobilisation and external communication.
Christian Beckert
Managing director „Integration“
Christian is founder and managing director of the „Integration Consulting Group“ – a medium-sized consulting company working in the field of development policy and emerging markets. Christian is a proven expert in transferring and applying economic methods for realising political projects. Fortunately, we can frequently profit from this rare qualification.
Stefan Holtel
chief advisor to „brightone consulting“
Stefan is a true „innovator“ – a pioneer for new technologies. His field of expertise is the application of cognitive computer systems in the economy and society. In this respect, he addresses a topic that is still mostly neglected but will bring about a technical revolution in the future. In the meantime, he regularly advises EUROSOC#DIGITAL in its technology projects.
Julia Hoffmann
Program coordinator „Advocate Europe“ MitOst e.V.
Julia is former staff member of EuroSoc, EUROSOC#DIGITAL’s predecessor. Julia is not only an excellent project manager and enthusiatic European citizen but an experienced trainer of teachers and other future trainers. She is an expert in innovative learning methods and regularly provides her expertise for EUROSOC#DIGITAL.
Mika Varjola
Founder and managing director of Mattersoft ltd.
Harvesting his experise on intelligent and connected transport systems, Mika founded the company Mattersoft. Mattersoft’s algorithms and software analyse traffic flows in all metropolitan areas in Finland and visualise the acquired data. Transport companies use these analyses for improving their infrastructural planning capacities an providing their passengers extra services. Mattersoft is a central technological partner of EUROSOC#DIGITAL.
Jens Steensma
founder and managing diretor of „YUCAT“
Who can claim such achievements: with his company YUCAT, Jens is a national champion on the market for mobile applications for the public sector. YUCAT’s Mobile App „BuitenBeter“ is one of the most advanced and sophisticated smart reporting systems in Europe that can be used in all citites of the Netherlands. EUROSOC#DIGITAL and YUCAT cooperate regularly in various European projects.
Scientific Advisory Board
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Bailer
University Of Basel
Professor Bailer was a founder of EUROSOC#DIGITAL’s predecessor and our supporter to this day. She ensures that our policy analyses are kept on the cutting edge of scientific knowledge, both content-related as well as methodological. EUROSOC#DIGITAL also cooperates with Prof. Bailer in the academic courses at the universities of St.Gallen and Basel.
Dr. Sandrino Smeets
University Of Nijmegen / Aarhus
Dr. Smeets is an expert on negotiations in the Council of the European Union and on the legislative process in the European Union. His field of expertise includes conflict studies in the Balkan countries. Dr. Smeets performs as co-author of various academic courses of EUROSOC#DIGITAL. He also supports the team in the offers to the universities of St.Gallen and Basel.
PD. Dr. Simon Fink
University Of Hannover
Private lecturer Dr. Fink has been a founder of EUROSOC#DIGITAL’s predecessor and is maintaining friendly and professional ties with us until today. We not only profit from his academic expertise but also from the highly innovative character of his ideas. Accordingly, Dr. Fink is involved in many project ideas of EUROSOC#DIGITAL.
Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab
University Of Koblenz-Landau
Professor Dr. Staab heads the institute for web science at the University of Koblenz-Landau and is a proven expert on semantic technology. Since our cooperation for the FP7 research and innovation project „Live+Gov“, Professor Staab advises EUROSOC#DIGITAL in the application of innovative IT in the public administration.
