Laura Hohoff is the Climate and Democracy Specialist at Democratic Society. She has a regional focus on Vienna, where she collaborates closely with the City of Vienna to integrate participatory methods in various climate strategy. Currently she is working on the involvement of citizens in energy transition and retrofit as well as designing a participatory budget on climate action, to be implemented in 2022. Additionally, she has been managing EU projects at the University of Business and Economics in Vienna, Austria, focusing on creating educational environments for social and sustainable entrepreneurship & innovation. Her educational background is “Environmental and Resource Management” at the University of Natural Resources and Live Sciences in Vienna (BOKU).