Advisory Board for Media and Transfer

To give the broad public an understanding of the complex political, economical and social developments in Eastern Europe, the EEGA constitutes an Advisory Board for Media and Knowledge Transfer. This advisory board is made up of experts from the media branch. It accompanies critically and constructively the knowledge transfer of EEGA. Especially print and online media, radio, audiovisual media and the commonly called new media are relevant to the EEGA.

The members of the advisory board strategically advise the management and coordination of the EEGA on the design of its transfer and the cooperation with media or media representatives. This also includes the content-related consultation on topics, references to persons in the communication branch and in the public, as well as finding event dates for EEGA events, which are particularly relevant for the transfer into the broader public.

Members

Gemma Pörzgen

Gemma Pörzgen works as a freelance journalist focusing on Eastern Europe in Berlin. She was born in Bonn and spent parts of her childhood and youth in Moscow. After studying Political Science, Slavic Studies and Eastern European History in Munich, she completed a traineeship at the Frankfurter Rundschau (FR). Gemma Pörzgen has a long career as a foreign journalist, for instance, as a Southeast Europe correspondent of the FR or as a Middle East correspondent of the Stuttgarter Zeitung. From 2010 till 2013 she worked as a media consultant for the „Uzbekistan Press Freedom Group“, which published the news page on Uzbekistan https://uznews.uz/. Furthermore, she was a scholarship recipient of the Robert Bosch Foundation with a book project and a fellow of the Institute for Human Science (IWM) in Vienna. The journalist is working for German national radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur, but also as a moderator and media-consultant. She is co-founder and board-member of Reporters Without Borders Germany. Her website: www.gemma-poerzgen.de

Gemma Pörzgen recently published an article on recent developments in Belarus. Click here for more information.

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Ivo Mijnssen

Ivo Mijnssen studied Eastern European history and sociology at Brown University, in Basel and at Stanford. In May 2015, he completed his dissertation on the political and social role of memory of the Second World War in the Soviet Union’s so-called Hero-Cities. During his studies, he regularly worked as a freelance journalist. In 2014 he completed an internship at the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), where he began working as an editor in charge of Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Baltic States in 2015. Ivo Mijnssen has worked and studied in Russia, the Ukraine and the United States. His journalistic interests include the political consequences of social polarization, the East-West conflict in Europe, the handling of migration and nationalism. In addition, he has worked closely with the data journalists and graphic artists of the NZZ to visualize social change processes. Since April 2019 he lives in Vienna, from where he reports as a foreign correspondent on politics and people in Austria, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He is the author of The Quest for an Ideal Youth in Putin’s Russia about the nationalist youth organization Nashi. Another book about the heroic cities of the Soviet Union is in progress.

Leonid Klimov

Leonid Klimov is science editor of dekoder.org. He studied Russian history at the Vladimir State Pedagogical University and cultural and literary studies at St. Petersburg State University. From 2011-2012 Leonid Klimov was a guest lecturer at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. In 2012 Klimov received his doctorate with his work on the candidate Nauk and then completed an additional master’s degree in culture and media management at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater. Since 2015, he has been science editor of dekoder.org and coordinates the work of academic experts in the fields of history and culture. Since 2019, he has also been a research assistant in the project „Wissenstransfer hoch zwei – Russlandstudien“ (Knowledge Transfer to the Power of Two – Russian Studies), which is carried out by the Research Center for Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen and the online medium dekoder.org in cooperation with the University of Basel.