The Transatlantic Academy is a scholarly forum for addressing challenges facing transatlantic relations.

The Transatlantic Academy is an initiative of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius of Germany, the Robert Bosch Stiftung, and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. In addition, the Academy has received funding from the Transatlantic Program of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany through funds of the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. The Compagnia di San Paolo also joined as a financial partner in May 2009.  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.

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.

The Transatlantic Academy is comprised of six scholars - four fellows and two junior fellows. Fellows work 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.