Gert Röhrborn coordinated the programme Democracy and Human Rights in the Warsaw office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. He is political scientist, project coordinator and certified EU fundraiser. He studied politics, European Union studies and history in Leipzig, Newcastle upon Tyne and Berlin. He worked previously as a research assistant at Dresden Technical University, executive officer of the network Citizens of Europe in Berlin and as a project coordinator in the Robert Schuman Foundation in Warsaw. Gert is interested in civic engagement in social space, politics of memory and education. He published articles mainly on Polish, European and Eastern matters in various journals and portals, e.g. Kommune, v4/revue, TransConflict, Slovo Blog, Magazyn Miasta and Kontynent Warszawy.