Alperen Kalay

Alperen Kalay is a Research Associate and a Doctoral Candidate at the Department for Cultural Policy. He studied Music Education (B. Arts) in Turkey and then specialised in Cultural Diplomacy & International Music (M. Arts) at the University of the West of Scotland where he researched ‘The Role of  Music Culture and Music Education in the Integration of Migrant Communities and Germany’s Internal Cultural Diplomacy’. He worked as a project coordinator(2022-2024) at the EU Horizon proposal: Cultural Policies for Youth Democratic Behaviour: Decolonising Artistic and Cultural Spaces for Civic Participation and Political Expression (DECOPOL) at the department. He is currently working in another EU Horizon project: Dialoguing@rts: Advancing Cultural Literacy for Social Inclusion through Dialogic Arts Education (d@rts) as a researcher. He also writes his PhD on the Effectiveness of Bilateral Cultural Diplomacy Between Germany & Turkey, in EU Relations, Bilateral Partnership and Integration of Turkish Ethnic Population in Germany.