Clara Schuster

As treasurer of the European Commission Trainees Association (ECTA), I bear the financial responsibility of the Association that represents over 900 Blue Book Trainees, managing a budget of over €20.000. This includes forecasting the budgets for the subcommittees and societies, keeping an eye on running expenses, and handling all incoming and outgoing transactions. I also handle the membership system and support other board members in their financial planning and event execution.

Board member of a student-led organization aiming to build and maintain a supportive community of plant-based-minded people. As an organization, we organized events, engaged in advocacy, and provided educational opportunities. • Treasurer (10/2023-09/2024): Budgeting, Accounting, financial management and reporting • Secretary (since 09/2024): Human Resource Management, administrative, communication, community, and collaboration management, social media management

In the Green Office (GO) Wageningen, we support the University to be a frontrunner in sustainability. Communication assistant (Feb 24-Sep 24): Social media content creation, such as Instagram posts, stories, and reels on sustainability-related topics, content research Project assistant (Sep 24-Feb 25): Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) project to improve the sustainability of educational and research laboratories, Quantitative research, report writing, data visualization

- Grade: 9 (out of 10) - Designing and executing a qualitative research project on serious game design with a systemic literature review and stakeholder interviews - Deliverable: A feminist agroecological serious game that mobilizes collective transformative action.

Collaborating with a large teaching team, preparation and setup for practical sessions, rectifying teaching material, providing assistance to students during practicals

Organized an intercultural project with refugees in Wageningen to bring together diverse cultural backgrounds and exchange over different topics

Supporting and managing large numbers of visiting international guests across various parliamentary buildings, providing information in three languages (German, English, French), colleague onboarding and training

Assisting in a quantitative genetic greenhouse experiment project, taking measurements and samples, data management

- Interdisciplinary focus on food system transformation with specialization in EU and urban food policy, governance, and sociology - Including interdisciplinary student consultancy project on guidelines for setting up a national community fund in the Netherlands, based on best practices from European examples.

- Specialization in European Policy and Policy Analysis - Courses covered foundation in agricultural, environmental and economic sciences, resource economics, marketing and policy analysis, statistics, econometrics, political and societal dimensions of sustainable and healthy food systems. - Including Semester abroad at Wageningen University withing the ERASMUS framework with courses on Permaculture, Sustainable Agri-food policy, and EU Policy