The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius of Germany, the Robert Bosch Stiftung, and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation are founding organizations of the Transatlantic Academy, a new initiative located in Washington, DC at GMF's headquarters. The Academy 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.

Working together from a transatlantic and interdisciplinary perspective, Academy fellows will use research, publications, and ideas to make policy-relevant contributions to policy debates facing the transatlantic community. Inaugural group of fellows will begin their residency in October 2008.

GOALS
The Transatlantic Academy 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 Transatlantic Academy invites applications from scholars from North America and Europe to become residential fellows.

The Academy welcomes participants in a highly competitive process and welcomes applications and nominations of senior fellows of varying disciplines with proposals for basic research on a pre-selected annual topic to be pursued during their time at the Academy. For its inaugural year, the Academy 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 Academy invites applications on the theme of "Turkey and its Neighbors: Implication for Transatlantic Relations."

The Transatlantic Academy will be 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.

HOW TO APPLY

Application for 2009-2010 are now being accepted, please email TA@gmfus.org for an application.