Alp 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 currently works on the EU Horizon project: Postcolonial Cultural Policies: Local Acting and Global South-North Exchange at the department and he 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.