European environmental and climate policy has accompanied Linda Kalcher since her studies. After completing her bachelor’s degree in Romance languages and literature in Bonn and Florence, she studied European Culture and Economy at the Ruhr University in Bochum. There, the Leverkusen native was also the spokesperson for the master’s program, a point of contact for 80 students from all over the world. „A precursor to later working in parliament„, she says today, in her mid-thirties.