Maria is the team leader for our Grant Management and Finance, Accounting & Controlling teams in the Foundation's central office. Her teams are responsible for the administrative review and processing of our grant projects as well as traditional accounting tasks. Maria studied languages, economics and cultural studies with a focus on France at the University of Passau and joined us in 2008 as a project assistant in the education department. She was responsible for projects on cultural education in early childhood, the transition from school to work, and later cultural projects such as the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize.
"Only those who grow up and remain a child are human."