Amelie was a research assistant for the project “Opportunity in Crisis: Empowering Ukrainian Refugees to Rebuild the Ukrainian Economy” until the End of September 2024..

In this project, she was responsible for reaching out to displaced Ukrainians in Germany and Austria and assessing the obstacles they faced when integrating into the German and Austrian labor markets.

She was in her third year of studying PPE at CEU and was set to begin a year abroad at LSE in September 2024, supported by her scholarship from the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation. As an extension of this project, she was deeply interested in questions of social inequality, merit, and policies of redistribution.

Previously, she worked as a writer on a policy brief covering inclusive policies for climate-induced migration, in cooperation with SEEK, the feminist research network. She was also actively engaged in the African German Youth Weeks hosted by the BMZ, where she helped develop policy recommendations for the new Africa strategy of the Ministry for Development Cooperation. For her social engagement in this field, she was awarded the Elmar von Trauwitz award in her hometown.