Sebastian Schäffer

Sebastian Schäffer
Sebastian Schäffer
Sebastian Schäffer is founding member of MEIA Research e.V. as well as founder and CEO of SSC Europe, a competence network for Seminars, Simulations, and Consulting. He is Managing Director at the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) in Vienna and Secretary General of the Danube Rectors’ Conference (DRC). He is a member of the Academic Council of the Munich European Forum e.V. and member of the Advisory Board of Discussing World Politics e.V.
Prior to that, Sebastian Schäffer held positions as lecturer and research fellow at the Institute for Political Science, Georg-August-University Göttingen and at the Institute for Political Science and Communication Studies, University of Greifswald. In addition, he worked as a research fellow in the research group on European Affairs at the Center for Applied Policy Research (CAP) at Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) and as a lecturer at LMU’s Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science.

 

Sebastian Schäffer holds an Honor’s Master’s degree in East European studies (major: legal studies, minor: history) from the University of Regensburg and an M.A. degree from LMU, where he studied political science, European law, and Slavonic studies.

 

His areas of expertise include EU-Russia relations, European Neighborhood Policy, the successor states of former Yugoslavia, and EU integration as well as the EU Strategy for the Danube Region.

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