Résumé
Veronica Becker joined the Professorship of Policy Analysis at the Technical University of Munich as a researcher and project manager for the "EuroTeQ Collider 2022" project in February 2022.
Originally coming from a Bachelor's in Geosciences from TUM and LMU, and with a great passion for nature and earth processes, Veronica wanted to learn more about the consequences of human impact on our ecosystems, which led her to the studies of Environmental Engineering at TUM, where she specialized in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus approach. For her Master's thesis, she developed a Theory of Change approach for a bottom-up urban farming initiative aimed at strengthening food sovereignty and environmental protection in Mexico.
Veronica initiated and implemented the student organization Plant a Seed, a unique interdisciplinary educational project for sustainability at TUM. Plant a Seed was awarded as a "promising practice" by the UN-Habitat Youth Initiative and as the first Sustainable Living Lab at TUM. To advance sustainable measures and inspire other universities to follow, Veronica brought Plant a Seed to Mexico, where she collaborated with a local initiative and students to work towards achieving food sovereignty and capacity building.