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Elizaveta Firsova

Professional affiliation

Research Associate at the Institute for Didactics and Democracy, Hanover

Full Biography

Elizaveta Firsova is a research associate and PhD student at the Institute for Didactics of Democracy at Leibniz University of Hanover. Ms. Firsova holds a Master of Arts in Education Studies from Freie Universit盲t Berlin and has focused on the role of education in combatting social division, especially regarding immigrant communities. After her graduation, she worked for 鈥淧ROOF: Media for Social Justice鈥 in New York City, on curricula in the field of social justice. Currently, Ms. Firsova is a project coordinator for initiatives funded by the European Union to tackle social divisions on different levels. In one project, she focuses on bringing digital media literacy to schools with predominantly disadvantaged students, and in her second project, she is designing a program to target extremism and conspiracy theories in adult education institutions. In her PhD thesis, Ms. Firsova researches the impact of the Israeli-German youth exchange program on participants鈥 political views regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.