Marion Fischer

Project Coordinator

Marion Fischer has an MA in French Philology and Literature. In the 1990s, she has been working with the Centre of Cultural Research, where she also was part of the ERICarts founding secretariat from 1993 on. She took over a large range of activities, e.g. editorial and publishing work, exchange programmes, conference and project management. Later on, she was head of office in the humanitarian aid organisation CARE International Deutschland, thus focussing on her second main interest which is development aid policies. In 2006, she certified as a Civil Peace Servant and started to re-orientate professionally, aiming at combining both culture and development issues.

She now co-ordinates this EU programme on national approaches of intercultural dialogue within the EU member states. Marion Fischer speaks fluently English, French and Spanish and has a good basic knowledge of the Russian language. In the last years, she repeatedly spent time in Central Asia, the Caucasian Region and the Balkans, doing advisory work and participating in projects dealing with culture, education and youth.