About us | Team

The Camino-Group consists of the two companies "Camino - Werkstatt für Fortbildung, Praxisbegleitung und Forschung im sozialen Bereich gGmbH" and "Camino – Institut für gesellschaftliche Teilhabe und soziale Integration GmbH". The two companies work closely together.

Our evaluations, research, and trainings are participatory, resource-oriented, and strictly directed towards the interests and needs of the participants. At Camino, we believe that the value of our work lies in its usefulness and the support it can provide to our clients and partners.

We aim to improve societal praxis by posing questions to practitioners that provide them with opportunities to reflect on their work, by supporting them in identifying good practices, and by bringing them together to promote joint development of new approaches, strategies, and methods.

You can watch a short info clip introducing us and our work here.

The diversity of our team enables us to combine high levels of topical expertise with strong skills in data collection and analysis to perform a wide range of tasks in research, evaluation, consulting, and professional training.

Executive Directors

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Dorte Schaffranke
Sabine Behn Portrait
Sabine Behn

Administration

Tania Oudemans

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Tania Oudemans

Research and Evaluation Specialists

Albrecht Lüter

Dr Albrecht Lüter, a political scientist and sociologist, heads the area of violence prevention and anti-discrimination at Camino. Before joining Camino in 2015, he was active in the scientific monitoring and evaluation of federal and state programmes on the prevention of right-wing extremism and the promotion of democracy at the Institute for Social Work and Social Education in Frankfurt am Main (ISS-FfM) since 2009. His professional career has also included positions at the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB), the International University Bremen, the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen, and the research institute “forsa”.

Current Projects

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albrechtlueter@camino-werkstatt.de

Telephone: +49 (0)30 610 73 72 20

Albrecht Lüter Portrait
Albrecht Lüter

Anna Lange

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Anna Lange
Dr. Britta Elena Hecking Portrait
Dr. Britta Elena Hecking
Dr. Burglinde Hagert Portrait
Dr. Burglinde Hagert
Carlotta Peters Portrait
Carlotta Peters
Christina Kaps Portrait
Christina Kaps

Helene Misja Saietz Vork

Helene Misja Saietz Vork (she/her) is a political and social scientist (M.A.). Before joining Camino in 2023, she studied International Relations, a Master's program in cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and the University of Potsdam. Her interests lie particularly in the areas of anti-discrimination, anti-racism, power-critical educational work, democracy and participation.

Her current work focuses on the scientific monitoring of the project "Countering Antifeminism - Strengthening Democracy", which is funded by the federal program "Demokratie leben!".

Current Projects

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helenevork@camino-werkstatt.de

Telephone: +49 (0)30 610 73 72-0

Helene Misja Saietz Vork Portrait
Helene Misja Saietz Vork

Helen Müller

Current Projects

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Helen Müller

Johanna Voss

Current Projects

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Johanna Voss
Dr. Kari-Maria Karliczek Portrait
Dr. Kari-Maria Karliczek

Magdalena Hirsch

Magdalena Hirsch studied social psychology (M.Sc., Utrecht University). Since 2022, she is research fellow at Camino and monitors projects related to prevention of violence and democratization. Before that, she was a research fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) investigating the sources of right-wing populist attitudes.

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magdalenahirsch@camino-werkstatt.de

Telephone: +49 (0) 30 610 73 72 23

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Magdalena Hirsch
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Meike Prillwitz

Moritz Fedkenheuer

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moritzfedkenheuer@camino-werkstatt.de

Telephone: +49 (0) 30 610 73 72 0

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Moritz Fedkenheuer

Moritz Konradi

Moritz Konradi is a political scientist (diploma, Free University of Berlin), a criminologist and police scientist (MA, Ruhr University in Bochum) and research specialist at the Violence Prevention Unit. Before joining Camino in 2020, he was programme manager at the European Forum for Urban Security in Paris. Up to 2016, he worked as a project co-ordinator for crime prevention at the anti-violence project MANEO in Berlin and was a lecturer at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science and at the Berlin Police Academy.

His current focus is on the evaluation and monitoring of projects in the areas of radicalisation prevention, community violence and crime prevention, and victim support.

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moritzkonradi@camino-werkstatt.de

Telephone: +49 (0)30 610 73 72 17

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Moritz Konradi
Philippe Greif Portrait
Philippe Greif

Dr. Sarah Riese

Sarah Riese is a doctor of political science and co-director of the Violence Prevention Unit.

Before joining Camino’s Youth Violence Prevention Unit in 2019, she ran the funding department of the Schüler Helfen Leben foundation and monitored education projects in Southeast Europe and the Middle East. Before this, she was involved in research projects on post-war processes at the Free University of Berlin, the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and the University of Ottawa.

Her current focus is on the evaluation of projects in the areas of right-wing extremism and violence prevention.

Current Projects

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sarahriese@camino-werkstatt.de

Telephone: 030-6107372-0

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Dr. Sarah Riese

Sarah Vollmer

Sarah Vollmer is a political scientist (M.A.)

Before joining Camino in 2023, she studied Applied Political Science (M.A.), a German-French double degree programme, at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Institut d'études politiques in Aix-en-Provence.

As a research assistant at the University of Freiburg, she was involved in the evaluation of the Dietenbach deliberative process between 2021 and 2022.

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sarahvollmer@camino-werkstatt.de

Telephone: +49 (0) 30 610 73 72 24

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Sarah Vollmer

Tanja Manthey-Gutenberger

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Tanja Manthey-Gutenberger
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Theresa Kunze

Thomas Schad

Thomas Schad is a research associate at Camino, where his work focuses on social space analysis and democracy promotion. After studying Eastern European Studies, Political Science and South Slavic Studies in Berlin and Istanbul, he earned his doctorate as a historian on migration from Yugoslavia to Turkey. Before joining Camino, he worked as an interpreter, freelance researcher and lecturer for BKMS, history and neo-populism at the Federal Foreign Office, the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Regensburg. He is mainly interested in populist movements, super-diverse urban milieus and public opinion. His methodological focus is qualitative and includes multi-method research and ethnographic interviews.

Current Projects

  • Research study for the Berlin State Democracy Promotion Act
  • Social space analysis: The youth of the High-Deck-Neighborhood (Berlin-Neukölln)
  • Social space analysis: Weiße Siedlung [Neighborhood] (Berlin-Neukölln)
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thomasschad@camino-werkstatt.de

Telephone: 49 (0) 30 610 73 72 25

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Thomas Schad
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Victoria Schwenzer

Willi Imhof

Willi Imhof is a sociologist and research specialist at the Violence Prevention Unit. Before joining Camino in 2017, he supported the Youth Violence Prevention Unit, initially as a freelancer.

The focus of his work takes in the socio-spatial Berlin Violence Prevention Monitoring as well as the evaluation of social projects, particularly in the area of violence prevention in schools and the promotion of democracy. His preferred methodological focus is on qualitative research approaches and online surveys.

Current Projects

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williimhof@camino-werkstatt.de

Telephone: +49 (0)30 610 73 72 26

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Willi Imhof

Wissenschaftliche Hilfskräfte

Dana Breidscheid

Dana Breidscheid is a sociology student (MA) at the University of Potsdam and a research assistant at the Violence Prevention Unit.

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Dana Breidscheid

Research Assistants

Brinda Heckmann

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Brinda Heckmann

Carolin Reiß

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Carolin Reiß

Frieder Decker

Frieder Decker studies Political Science (B. A.) at the Freie Universität Berlin and has previous experience in the field of political education. They have joined Camino in March 2024 and are part of the team for the developement of a "Landesstrategie für queere Sicherheit und gegen Queerfeindlichkeit".

Current Projects

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Frieder Decker
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Julia Grau
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Nike Bartz
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Rada Pantelic

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