The Transatlantic Academy (TA) serves as a forum for a select group of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic and from different academic and policy disciplines to examine a single set of issues.

In cooperation with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), Washington, D.C., the Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg, and The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Milwaukee, WI, the Robert Bosch Stiftung founded the TA, located in Washington, D.C. at GMF's headquarters, in 2007. Working together from a transatlantic and interdisciplinary perspective, TA fellows use research, publications, and ideas to make policy-relevant contributions to policy debates facing the transatlantic community.

The TA intends to strengthen the transatlantic partnership by:

supporting intensive research and discussion on one major topic per year
incorporating an interdisciplinary view, with fellows from different generations from both sides of the Atlantic
sustaining research over a period of ten months and organizing discussions with political and economic leaders
disseminating the results of research systematically to policy-planning staffs, government legislators, and European Union officials through targeted media and public outreach on both sides of the Atlantic
hosting workshops, seminars, and lecture series on issues related to the academic topic
featuring its website as a resource for research, relevant data, and discussion

To pursue its goals, the TA invites applications from scholars from North America and Europe to become residential fellows.

The TA is comprised of six scholars - four fellows and two junior fellows. Fellows will be in residence at GMF's Washington office for up to 10 months, and will actively participate in a collaborative environment, sharing and discussing their work with each other and Academy guests. In order to facilitate these discussions, fellows will attend biweekly lunch sessions and respond to one another's work.

For its inaugural year, the TA appointed scholars working on the movement of peoples and how these movements are affecting North American and European societies. For its second year, 2009-2010, the TA was focused on the topic "Turkey and its Neighbors: Implication for Transatlantic Relations." The research theme for 2010-2011 was the “Global Shift: The Transatlantic Community and the new Geopolitics”, which examined the ongoing transfer of geopolitical power, with a particular focus on political, military and economic developments in China.

In the program year 2011-2012, the fellows will work on the topic "The Competition for Natural Resources: The New Geopolitical Great Game?".

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