Deadline: 20-Mar-22
The U.S. Mission to Germany is currently accepting applications for the 2022 Public Diplomacy Grant Program to promote bilateral cooperation and highlight shared values. All programs must include an American perspective, societal or cultural element, and/or connection with American experts, organizations, or institutions in a specific field that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policy and viewpoints of American citizens.
Additionally, programs must include public outreach components, such as livestreaming, traditional media, digital outreach, or events open to the general public. Examples of Public Diplomacy Grant programs include, but are not limited to:
- Professional and academic lectures, workshops, and seminars; professional and academic exchange programs
- Programs that enable American and German citizens to exchange ideas, knowledge, and experience in an impactful way
- Artistic and cultural workshops, joint performances, and exhibitions
Priorities
- Projects that enhance the resiliency when faced with disinformation and regional destabilization;
- Projects that support, promote, and defend democratic principles and institutions, and that draw attention to challenges from undemocratic actors;
- Projects that build climate awareness and mobilize climate action;
- Projects that promote climate-smart innovations and energy transformation technologies, policies, and infrastructure to support green growth and transatlantic security;
- Projects that support entrepreneurship and economic prosperity, transatlantic innovation, and the digital economy;
- Projects that foster proactive approaches to countering racially and ethnically motivated discrimination and terrorism, anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim prejudice, homophobia, and forms of right-wing extremism that threaten both the shared values and political stability, including, but not limited to:
- Civic education programs, particularly those promoting democratic institutions and values or focusing on media literacy and disinformation
- Projects that promote educational, cultural, and civic exchanges and enhance understanding of the shared values, traditions, and history, or promote transatlantic institutional and/or community linkages, in particular:
- Providing support for exchanges opportunities for vocational students, first-generation Germans, and underserved youth populations to promote the U.S-German relationship.
- Creating long-term relationships with U.S. and German educational institutions in the fields of business, environment, economics, international relations, science, and technology.
- engaging youth on the topics of democracy, diversity, and environmental protection, to facilitate new 21st century transatlantic connections shaped by future decision-makers.
- Projects that develop STE(A)M, soft skills, and media literacy programs focusing on youth audiences, minority communities, underserved populations, and first-generation Germans;
- Programming to support alumni of U.S. government exchange programs.
Priority Program Areas
- Berlin Consular District: Berlin and Brandenburg
- Düsseldorf Consular District: North Rhine Westphalia
- Leipzig Consular District: Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia
- Frankfurt Consular District: Hesse, Rhineland Palatinate, Saarland, Baden-Württemberg
- Hamburg Consular District: Hamburg, Bremen, Lower Saxony, Schleswig Holstein, Mecklenburg West Pomerania
- Munich Consular District: Bavaria
Funding Information
- Award amounts Up to $15,000
- Length of performance period Up to 12 months
- Announcement Date: 12/03/2021
Participants and Audiences
- Youth and underserved communities;
- Immigrant populations;
- Civil society and non-government organizations;
- Academic and cultural institutions;
- Entrepreneurs.
Eligibility Criteria
The Public Affairs Section considers applications from the United States and the EU, including:
- Registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations;
- Individuals;
- Non-profit or governmental educational institutions;
- Governmental institutions
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=336852