Programs for Political Decision-Makers

Thanks to the program, I was able to spend a few exciting days with other MPS at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge in 2019, and exchange ideas with highly renowned professors. This program allows female decision-makers to get to know other perspectives, and broaden their views across party lines. For that I am very grateful.”

I am surrounded by other politicians all day long. The opportunity to get to know those behind them, via the Robert Bosch Foundation program, offers new and special insights. An exciting experience!

The program of the Robert Bosch Stiftung is a great enrichment for my political work as a member of the German Bundestag. It is professionally organized, offers high-quality and well-moderated spaces for discussion with exciting personalities, and is accompanied by an extremely friendly team that continuously works on making the offer even better.

The Robert Bosch Foundation programs are convincing thanks to their high professional level, and also enable exchanges with compelling personalities. In its work, the Foundation places particular emphasis on international networking and thus enables a broadening of personal horizons.

During my time as a member of the Bundestag, the program ‘Policymaking in the 21st Century’ offered me the rare opportunity to combine cross-party cooperation and further education on a broad range of issues, while also looking beyond our narrow concerns in Germany.

The opportunities for open dialogue with highly competent international discussion partners in a safe environment, as well as for personal exchange across party lines in an atmosphere of trust offers an indispensable contribution to the quality of political processes and decisions.

I want to exchange ideas with citizens, volunteers, activists, entrepreneurs, and scientists, and also with other politicians. The Robert Bosch Stiftung creates this contact with other political decision-makers across countries and parties. I value this open exchange very much.

Above all, the programs offer a view beyond one’s own narrow concerns. Participants come from very different political backgrounds. In the process, one questions one’s own positions – which are not infrequently formed within filtered perceptions – and this also changes one’s perspectives.

The program was an outstanding experience for me. Firstly, because of the high-caliber interlocutors, and secondly, because being with other German decision-makers in an international context quickly dissolved party boundaries and really enabled new, productive exchanges.

In the hectic everyday routine of parliament, there is often a lack of time and space for fundamental debates and exchange. The program has created a space for cross-party exchange that is, above all, based on trust. This sounds simple, but in the Bundestag it is almost unique.