Domokos Péter Kovács

Domokos Péter Kovács is a Hungarian-German youth policy and civil society professional working on democratic participation, sustainability and international cooperation. His educational path ranged from a Waldorf school to a German-Hungarian minority secondary school, followed by student representation in Hungary and at the University of Passau.
With a DAAD scholarship, he studied Governance and Public Policy in Passau, where he also worked at the fundraising and communication department of the university. His bachelor’s thesis focused on Education for Sustainable Development. He later earned an MSc in Environmental, Social and Governance Management at Széchenyi István University in Győr, with research on sport and sustainability.

As a Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellow at Purdue University, he developed a waste-management education project combining art and sustainability, later awarded Hungary’s European Charlemagne Youth Prize. In 2022, he represented Hungary as Youth Delegate to the UN, focusing on river pollution, national minority rights and the circular economy. He later served as Vice President of the National Youth Council of Hungary, co-initiated Youth Pro Ukraine, and in 2026 joined the German Bundestag’s International Parliamentary Scholarship programme. In his free time, he plays water polo.