Events of the
Robert Bosch Stiftung

About: Carlos Alvarado Quesada served as the 48th President of Costa Rica from 2018 to 2022. Under President Alvarado’s leadership, Costa Rica contributed to global efforts to combat climate change, and defended human rights, democracy, and multilateralism.

AboutThe ability to be “creative” is often described as something quintessentially human. However, this assumption is being challenged by generative AI. Trained with the data from millions of people, particularly from the creative sector, tools such as ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion produce content that appears deceptively creative in a human way.

The impact of conflict on environment and public health usually long outlasts the end of hostilities. This webinar will highlight examples in the region.

About Regional inequalities in the U.S. and Europe have become politically dangerous and difficult to ignore. Regions hit by rapid deindustrialization since the 1980s, resulting in poor-quality education and other indices of poverty and inequality, have seen a marked rise in support for reactionary, anti-establishment politics.

About We may not live in an equitable world today, but we can start developing, funding, and using technology tools in ways that help us get there. Core to an equitable future is accountability, especially for communities and individuals to set their own terms including restitution for harm.

The war in Ukraine has demonstrated the rift between the West and the “Global South”, the latter which represents 85 percent of the world population. The Russian invasion of Ukraine not only violated the UN Charter, it was also an act of aggression committed by a colonial power against the territorial integrity of a sovereign state.

This event is one of the three main knowledge products of the new Global Governance Innovation Project (GGIP).

How can commitments & actions on land-based targets made under the Rio Conventions be effectively coordinated and implemented while taking into account gender equality and land rights?

About Germany's confrontation with its difficult pasts – the rise of Nazism, the Holocaust, and the East German dictatorship – is largely considered a success, even a model for others to emulate. However, the “champion of remembering” has a blind spot it is still struggling to reckon with: its colonial past.

About the event In her speech on 2 May 2023 at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock highlighted the pressing need for the international community to address the catastrophic impact of rising sea levels on island states.

In May 2023, the Robert Bosch Academy brought together some of our fellows who currently live in or around Washington, D.C. and are experts in different areas. We co-created a program based on the urgent questions that they wanted to discuss.

This transatlanic policy workshop will bring together policy-makers and experts from Europe and the US, including senior experts from Brookings Institution, Richard von Weizsäcker Fellows of the Robert Bosch Academy, and leading experts from other institutions in Berlin, to exchange about current transatlantic policy challenges.

Ukraine’s ambition is to become part of the EU as soon as possible.

Partner, competitor, and systemic rival? In recent years, contemporary debates found new terminology for dealing with China in geostrategic, economic, and political terms.

About Art for social change.

Agenda 5:30 pm Welcome 6:00 pm Discussion 7:30 pm Reception About The worldwide Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 were an important albeit short-lived experiment in solidarity.

About Solidarity is the emotional connection that binds activists together so that they can work collectively to make radical change.

Agenda: 5:30 pm Welcome 6:00 pm Discussion 7:30 pm Reception About: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted dramatic changes in the European Union.