Joerg Fischer |

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Joerg Fischer, Dr.Phil

Joerg Fischer is a social work practitioner and social researcher with extensive experience in youth welfare, debt counseling, and social policy in Germany and internationally. His practice experience includes serving as Coordinator of the pilot project Creation of a Network of Preventive Debt Counselling for Young People at the Debt Counselling Association Jena, as well as holding leadership roles within public welfare systems, including Head of the Youth Welfare and Social Welfare Department at the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt County Office. He also coordinated large-scale laboratory and development projects focused on employment and public welfare through the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Thüringen.

Dr. Fischer’s research and academic work spans multiple countries and institutions. He has held DAAD scholarships in Russia and Kyrgyzstan and served as a scientific co-worker and visiting professor at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. He was also a Visiting Researcher at Temple University’s School of Social Work in Philadelphia.