Paula Schöberlein holds a master's degree in Environmental Policy from Sciences Po Paris (France) and in Political Science from the Free University in Berlin (Germany). She wrote her master's thesis on the representation of sustainable food policy on the German political agenda in cooperation with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. She completed her bachelor's degree in Communication Science and International Relations at the University of Erfurt (Germany). During her undergraduate, Paula Schöberlein spent one semester at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) and lived in Ottawa (Canada), where she completed an internship at the German Embassy. Her studies were funded by the Deutschland Stipendium and the German Academic Exchange Service.