Skip to main content [accesskey="s"]
An official website of the European Union
  • European Parliament
  • European Council
  • Council of the European Union
  • European Commission
  • Court of Justice of the European Union
  • European Central Bank|European Court of Auditors
  • European External Action Service
  • European Economic and Social Committee
  • European Committee of the Regions
  • European Investment Bank
  • European Ombudsman
  • European Data Protection Supervisor
  • Inter institutional bodies
Log in or Join
European flag European Union
  1. European Union
  2. Capacity4dev
  3. People
  4. Dorothee Fischer
Capacity4dev home page
  • Home
  • Voices & Views
  • Topics
  • Groups
  • Projects
  • Resources
  • Events
  • Members
  • About Us

Dorothee Fischer

Communication Expert
PFD (International Organisation)
Based in: 
Spain

Dorothee Fischer is a communications and international affairs expert collaborating with European institutions and programmes, NGOs, universities and private companies world-wide. Before becoming self-employed in April 2014, she used to work as Communication and Project Development Officer for the European programmes INTERREG IIIC and INTERACT, giving technical assistance to European Territorial Cooperation and Interreg programmes including IPA and ENPI CBC. She has also gained extensive experience as a freelance journalist and producer among others for ARTE (FR/DE), Ethnographic Media (US), Cámara Boreal (ES), and Herr Willie Productions (DE). Between 2003 and 2008, she was running the Strasbourg office of the international NGO “Association of the Local Democracy Agencies”, in charge of press relations and managing a variety of international human rights and development projects in South East Europe and the Southern Caucasus.
Being fluent in German, English, French and Spanish, Dorothee is specialised in drafting communication and media outreach strategies and developing innovative communication tools such as webdocumentaries, films, websites and social media. In addition, she gives trainings on communication issues on a regular basis and facilitates events.

Expertise

Topics & subtopics

Communicating Development Cooperation, Culture, Development Policy

Professional Interests

Topics

Climate change, disaster risk reduction & desertification, Communicating Development Cooperation, Development Policy

Regions

Worldwide, Latin America & Caribbean, Asia

Notable Contributions

Voices & Views

The challenges of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia
A Whole-of-Society Approach for a new Africa-Europe Alliance

Groups

Member of the following Group(s)

Policy Forum on Development (PFD)

Public Group on Civil Society

Public Group on Employment, VET and Social Protection

Fonds fiduciaire européen pour la République centrafricaine "Bêkou" / EU Trust Fund for the Central African Republic "Bêkou"

Informal Economy Support Facility

Capacity4dev

Follow us

  • (External link)
  • (External link)
  • (External link)
  • (External link)
  • Contact us
  • Help & Guidance

Contact EU

  • Call 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11. See details of service
  • E-mail your questions about the EU
  • EU in your country
  • Local information services in the EU
  • Institutions, bodies and agencies
  • Press contacts
  • Contact the web team

Find EU Social Media Accounts

  • Use this tool to search for EU social media channels

Find a European institution

  • European Parliament
  • European Council
  • Council of the European Union
  • European Commission
  • Court of Justice of the European Union
  • European Central Bank
  • European Court of Auditors
  • European External Action Service
  • European Economic and Social Committee
  • European Committee of the Regions
  • European Investment Bank
  • European Ombudsman
  • European Data Protection Supervisor
  • European Personnel Selection Office
  • Publications Office of the European Union
  • Agencies
  • Work for the European Union
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • About the site
  • Legal Notices
  • Terms & Conditions