Call for Applications: New Bridge to Germany

The New Bridge Program by Atlantik-Brücke is a fully funded transatlantic fellowship for young professionals who are currently underrepresented in German-American relations. It aims to renew and enrich transatlantic dialogue, ensuring it is more accessible.

The ten-day program enables emerging leaders from the United States to experience Europe first-hand, engage in an interdisciplinary exchange and cultivate lasting personal as well as professional relationships across the Atlantic. We look forward to welcoming diverse candidates from a variety of fields, backgrounds and regions within the U.S. who are not adequately represented in international dialogue, particularly those with little to no prior experience in Europe. This includes Black, Indigenous, and people of color, immigrant communities, people who belong to religious minorities, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, people from rural areas, and those who are marginalized in other ways.

This year’s program is scheduled to take place from from May 28 to June 7. It starts in Washington, D.C. and will bring ten selected fellows to Brussels, Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder). While in Europe, the group will meet with high-ranking officials and decision-makers from critical sectors, visit key government as well as business sites and engage with European counterparts, both professionally and socially. Diverse cultural programming will round out the trip.

After completing the program, participants will be integrated into an active alumni community with additional events and opportunities for sustained exchange.

Flights, accommodation, meals and program activities are fully covered by the program.

To be eligible, the following qualifications are required:

• Residence in the United States, eligibility to enter Germany and Belgium
• Age between 25 and 35 years
• Professional, academic, personal, or other achievements
• Openness to new experiences, interest in international relations, and willingness to actively and sustainably participate in transatlantic discourse