Deadline: 23-Mar-2025
The Public Diplomacy Section at the U.S. Mission to Germany is offering funding through the Transatlantic Partnership Program to strengthen transatlantic relationships by promoting mutual understanding and collaboration between the United States and Germany.
Program Objective Areas
- Partner to Sustain, Expand, and Diversify Transatlantic Networks: Build networks and foster long-term relationships between emerging leaders, educational institutions, and civil society stakeholders in the United States and Germany to collaborate on transnational challenges — such as responding to the PRC, countering Russian malign influence, combating antisemitism and all forms of hatred and promote shared values through outreach activities and/or professional, educational, youth, and cultural exchanges.
- Partner to Foster Vibrant and Resilient Democratic Civil Societies: Build consensus among stakeholders to counter challenges to secure infrastructure, supply chains, and support for Ukraine, and/or deliver digital and media literacy tools to combat disinformation in vulnerable communities. Foster proactive approaches to counter discrimination, terrorism, anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim prejudice, homo- and transphobia, and extremism that threaten shared values and political stability.
- Partner to Build more Equitable, Innovative, and Sustainable Economies: Promote green innovation and energy transformation technologies to support sustainable growth and transatlantic security. Foster entrepreneurship, economic prosperity, transatlantic innovation, the digital economy, and workforce development.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $50,000
- Award Floor: $10,000
Target Audiences
- Youth, including students at Mittel-, Real-, and Fachoberschulen, Stadtteilschulen, Gesamtschulen, and Gymnasien and Hochschulen.
- Youth and community organizations.
- Journalists and social media influencers, as well as student journalists.
- Sub-national political and economic leaders.
- Staffers at NGOs focusing on human rights, social justice, democracy, countering extremism, fighting disinformation, new tech, AI education etc.
- Entrepreneurs, founders, innovators, and business leaders.
- Law enforcement officials and students, e.g. police officials and police academy students
Eligibility Criteria
- The Public Diplomacy Section will consider proposals from Germany-based applicants, including:
- Registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations with a presence in Germany;
- Non-profit or governmental educational institutions;
- Governmental institutions and other public entities.
- Non-German organizations are required to partner with a German institution. They will not entertain applications from U.S. or third country organizations that cannot show evidence of a German partner institution.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following types of programs are not eligible for funding:
- Social welfare projects, charitable or development activities; fund-raising campaigns;
- One-time study trips for youth, school, and university classes, travel to student conferences such as MUN;
- Any activities that appear partisan or that support individual or party electoral campaigns;
- Lobbying for specific legislation or programs;
- Construction programs;
- Scientific or medical research and studies;
- Production of media such as films, art, literature, music, and podcasts.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.