Focus areas: Financial education, science communication, participatory research, systematic literature reviews

Clara Baumann has been working as a Research Associate at iff since January 2025. She is an adult educator (M.A.) and a certified project manager (IPMA® Level D).

At iff, her thematic focus is on financial education, with a particular emphasis on vulnerable target groups. In this context, a financial guide titled “Careleaver and Finances: Tips for Supporting the Transition from Youth Welfare Services to Independent Living” has already been developed (funded by the foundation “Deutschland im Plus”).

Currently, Ms. Baumann is involved in three projects on financial education, all of which are part of the BMBFSFJ funding line “Research on Financial Education.” In FiBi-Care (Financial Education of Young Adults in Precarious Life Situations), she develops educational materials through participatory approaches together with the target groups Careleaver and young Muslim women. In MINTIFY (Human-Centred Design of Tools for Financial Education), she leads the development of an AI-supported financial education tool. In FIBI-LA (Basic Financial Education in Vulnerable Life Situations), she is currently developing a podcast format on poverty-sensitive financial education.

Ms. Baumann has been working on financial education topics since 2023, most recently as a research associate at Humboldt University of Berlin, where she also worked as a lecturer from 2023 to 2024.

Since 2013, Ms. Baumann has worked as a freelance trainer in trade union education and has extensive experience in the design of educational programmes as well as in facilitating seminars and events.

Clara Baumann completed her Bachelor’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin and her Master’s degree in Adult Education/Lifelong Learning at Humboldt University of Berlin.

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