Young Atlantiks Program

How can Canada and Germany deepen their partnership and offer each other stability amid rapid and far-reaching change in the global community? was the central question guiding the Young Atlantiks Program 2026.

How can two middle powers, facing a more contested and unpredictable world, strengthen each other's position rather than navigate it alone? Find out in this analysis by an alumnus of this year's Young Atlantiks cohort.

Mark Carney and Friedrich Merz both took office in 2025 facing Trump's trade wars and restless electorates — yet one has emerged as an unlikely voice of the free world, while the other struggles, analyzes Young-Atlantiks-Alumnus Moritz Meissner.

We are happy to introduce our next Young Atlantiks cohort.

Call for Applications: Emerging professionals from Germany and Canada are invited to apply for an intensive five-day exchange in Berlin.

Read Young Atlantiks' alumnus Benjamin Sauvé's assessment of the new US-Canada relationship.

Every year, ten young professionals from Canada and Germany meet at the German-Canadian Conference as part of the Young Atlantiks Program. Meet this years cohort.

Call for Applications: The Young Atlantiks Program promotes the “next generation” of German-Canadian transatlantic partnership.

From May 11-15, 2024, ten young Canadian and German professionals, with diverse backgrounds and expertise, met to discuss current and future transatlantic challenges and to attend the 37th German-Canadian Conference in Berlin.