I have been invited by the PI, Prof Michele Knodt, University of Darmstadt Germany as research in her multi-annual research consortium funded by COST, European cooperation in Science and Technology. My research contributed to the working group on the EU's perception as an external actor. I have been appointed as Director of the Early Career Researcher Network for this project. I delivered training, mentoring and publication workshops in this role. I also founded a policy brief series for the consortium in which I was an editor.