Curriculum

Janina studied Business Psychology (B.Sc.) and Management & Human Resources (M.Sc.) at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg. During her master's, she started working for the STEP (Student Training for Entrepreneurial Promotion) project and was mainly responsible for supervising research assistants and organising the evaluation of the STEP trainings in various African countries (e.g., Uganda, Kenya, South Africa). For her master's thesis, she collected data on teamwork processes during the STEP training in South Africa. Since October 2021, she is pursuing her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Michael Gielnik. Within her research, she is mainly looking at success factors of entrepreneurship training design, the effects of entrepreneurship training on poverty alleviation and employment, and women entrepreneurship. Shedeveloped a version of the STEP training for illiterates as part of a World Bank project in Niger. She is currently acting as project coordinator for a STEP Sustainability project that is being implemented in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa and is funded by the DAAD.