Agriculture & Food Security

Aid & Development

GMF's work on aid and development aims to support research and convening on how North America and Europe can work together and with developing countries to enhance policy coherence on aid and trade policies to support sustainable economic growth and human security.

Asia

The Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) addresses the implications of Asia's rise for the West through research and commentary, conferences, study tours to Asia, publications, and collaborations with other GMF programs. Covering an expansive area — from the Hindu Kush to the Pacific — the program has region-wide projects as well as specific initiatives related to China, India, Japan, Pakistan, and Korea.

Balkan Trust for Democracy

The Balkan Trust for Democracy (BTD) is a 10-year, $36-million grantmaking initiative that supports democracy, good governance, and Euroatlantic integration in Southeastern Europe. This award-winning public-private partnership was created in 2003 by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. BTD is structured to allow both European and U.S. partners to join the effort to strengthen transatlantic cooperation in the Balkans.

Brussels Forum

Brussels Forum is an annual high-level meeting of influential North American and European political, corporate, and intellectual leaders to address pressing challenges currently facing both sides of the Atlantic. Participants include heads of state, senior officials from the European Union institutions and the member states, U.S. Cabinet officials, Congressional representatives, Parliamentarians, academics, and journalists.

Climate & Energy

GMF’s Climate & Energy Program aims to advance transatlantic leadership on scalable policy and business solutions to reduce the risks of climate change and achieve a low-carbon, secure, and affordable energy future, while conserving natural resources. The Program works to support transatlantic cooperation on U.S. and EU domestic climate and energy policies and international climate and energy cooperation more broadly. GMF believes that transatlantic cooperation on these issues is both mutually beneficial and essential for global leadership to avoid dangerous climate change. GMF seeks to inform the debate with objective data and the best examples of successful policies that could be shared across the Atlantic or more widely. Finally, GMF believes that international progress on climate and energy policy depends on the broadening of the debate away from a narrow focus on environmental policy to something that informs all social, economic, and foreign policy.

Congressional Affairs

The Congressional Affairs Program informs and educates Members of the U.S. Congress on transatlantic affairs. GMF does this through its grantmaking, convening, networking, and research activities. GMF provides a nonpartisan platform for transatlantic learning among policymakers on issues of mutual concern.

Economic Policy

The United States and Europe account for more than 40 percent of world economic activity -- close to $20 trillion in goods and services on an annual basis. Given the size and importance of this relationship, GMF's Economic Policy Program seeks to ensure that the benefits of globalization are distributed far and wide. Through in-depth research, targeted grantmaking, strategic convening, and outreach to key policymakers and the media, the program supports transatlantic leadership at the critical nexus of economic policy, trade and investment, development assistance, and agricultural markets and food security.

Economics, Trade, & Investment

GMF’s Economics, Trade, & Investment program works to further policy-relevant transatlantic analysis and discussion on the most pressing global financial, trade, and economic issues. GMF’s work centers on the future of the global financial system; United States and European bilateral and global trade policies; economic competitiveness on both sides of the Atlantic; and the long-term impact of the global economic crisis and the sovereign debt crisis in Europe for the transatlantic economic relationship.

EuroFuture Project

The German Marshall Fund of the United States understands the twin crisis in Europe and the United States to be a defining moment that will shape the transatlantic partnership and its interactions with the wider world for thelong term. GMF’s EuroFuture Project therefore aims to understand and explore the economic, governance and geostrategic dimensions of the EuroCrisis from a transatlantic perspective. The Project addresses the impact, implications, and ripple effects of the crisis – in Europe, for the United States and the world.

Foreign Policy & Civil Society

GMF contributes to enhancing cooperation between North America and Europe by actively strengthening civil society and democratic institutions in Europe’s post-communist countries. The Belgrade office, established in 2003, is responsible for GMF programming throughout the Balkan region. Since 2007, GMF’s Black Sea regional programming has been run from its Bucharest office.

G20 in the Global Economy

The global economic crisis will have long-term implications for the transatlantic economic relationship and the global economy. Priorities for policy makers in the years to come will be driven by addressing challenges related to global imbalances, the management of budget deficits, the reform of the global financial institutions, and the re-working of the global economic governance structure.

Immigration & Integration

GMF’s Immigration & Integration Program was established in the early 1990s to provide a platform for exchange and the dissemination of research on immigration and integration issues across the Atlantic. The Program seeks to enhance the understanding among North American and European stakeholders of the challenges and opportunities that immigration poses for receiving as well as sending countries and societies.

Mediterranean

The Mediterranean Policy Program promotes a policy-oriented debate on Mediterranean-wide issues with the aim to strengthen transatlantic cooperation and suggest ways to streamline European and U.S. initiatives in the region. The program seeks to highlight the connections between the European and Southern Mediterranean spaces and to understand the relevance of Mediterranean dynamics to larger international and global developments. It does this through research and convening on key functional issues affecting Mediterranean security and development.

Opinion Research

The German Marshall Fund produces two transatlantic surveys of public opinion each year in an effort to gauge the transatlantic relationship and transatlantic feeling on an array of foreign and domestic issues.  The survey results are often used by a diverse group of stakeholders including policymakers, academics, and journalists.

Transatlantic Academy

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.

Transatlantic Taskforce on Aid & Development

The mission of the Transatlantic Taskforce on Development is to provide strategic recommendations to strengthen transatlantic cooperation in development and to support the creation of conditions for reform.

Transatlantic Trends

Transatlantic Trends is an anuall public opinion survey that measures broad public opinion in the United States and 12 European countries and gauges transatlantic relations through interviews with more than 13,000 people. Participants are asked their views on each other and on global threats, foreign policy objectives, world leadership, and multilateral institutions. The survey is a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Compagnia di San Paolo in Turin, Italy with additional support from the Fundação Luso-Americana (Portugal) , the Fundación BBVA (Spain), and the Tipping Point Foundation (Bulgaria).

Transatlantic Trends Immigration

Transatlantic Trends (www.transatlantictrends.org), established in 2002, surveys issues of politics, foreign policy, current events, and general attitudes of publics in the United States and 12 European countries.  Transatlantic Trends is released in early September each year.

Turkey

Turkey is an important transatlantic partner which has been going through a transformation for the last decade. Foreign policy dimension of this transformation and implications for the transatlantic community in particular are widely debated by opinion leaders on both sides of the Atlantic. With the advantage of having an office in Ankara, GMF plays a significant role in this debate. Within this framework, Turkey program of the German Marshall Fund aims at strengthening Turkey’s ties with the transatlantic community and creating a forum where Americans, Europeans, and Turks can learn from one another and address shared challenges.

Urban and Regional Policy Program

Wider Atlantic

GMF’s Wider Atlantic Program, led by Dr. Ian O. Lesser, the executive director of GMF’s Transatlantic Center in Brussels, builds on the experience of the past three years, and will promote a more comprehensive approach to Atlanticism, with north-south and south-south relations at the core. The GMF-OCP Foundation partnership looks to move beyond the traditional northerly axis that has driven contemporary transatlantic relations. The new initiative underscores the growing importance of Africa and Latin America as actors in the Atlantic space. It also focuses on the shared policy challenges shaping the future of four continents around the Atlantic basin. From the rise of Brazil to the growing role of China, the Atlantic equation is evolving rapidly, and so is the need for a wider conversation about Atlantic futures.

Young Transatlantic Network