Ayse Oezbabacan

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Fellowship

Status
Past Fellow
Year
2009

Biography

Biography

Ms. Ayse Özbabacan is the coordinator of the European Cities Network CLIP (Cities for Local Integration Policies of Migrants). She works for the Department for Integration Policy of the City of Stuttgart, where she supports the City to implement the goals of the Stuttgart Pact for Integration, the Stuttgart Integration Policy concept. For the last year and a half, she has been working on the extension of the network and on supporting the CLIP scientific research group to conduct migration-specific case studies in Stuttgart, which involves the organization of CLIP meetings, the writing of the CLIP-newsletter, and the presentation of successful integration work on the local, national and European levels. Ms. Özbabacan is multilingual, speaking German, English, French, Dutch, Kurdish, and Turkish. She has degrees in European studies and law and a masters degree in European culture from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.