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2023 Cohort of Transatlantic Media Fellows

We are excited to announce our selection of Transatlantic Media Fellows for 2023 - including our first Global Development Policy Fellows!

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Breaking Ground or Breaking Promises? Assessing the Biden Administration's Approach to a Feminist Foreign Policy

The election of Joe Biden as President of the United States created an opening for a gender-sensitive approach to foreign policy. Two years in, historic firsts and enduring obstacles present a mixed picture.

By Allegra Wirmer

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Call for Applications: From Growth to Well Being Think Fund

Call for Applications

We are accepting applications for the From Growth to Well Being Think Fund until July 31st, 2023.

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Turkey’s Elections: How Erdoğan Could Try to Engineer a Win and Stay in Power

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As Turkey gears up for elections on May 14, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his party are expected to use several tactics to undermine the vote and to engineer a win.

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Climate & Energy

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Green Equity

This dossier explores what needs to improve in order for green equity to become a powerful instrument to support a green and socially inclusive transformation.

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The Loss and Damage Finance Landscape

Discussion Paper

A Loss and Damage Fund should become the central player in an emerging landscape of arrangements to help developing countries suffering from catastrophic climate change impacts. How can it best fulfill this role?

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Understanding the German Nuclear Exit

On April 15, Germany permanently closed its last 3 nuclear power plants. This is the culmination of a 50 year democratic process: proof that sustained engagement can give future generations a voice and radically transform a country’s environmental policy.

By Mareike Moraal and Lalitha Shan

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The Inflation Reduction Act Explained

The Inflation Reduction Act has been praised by American unions, climate activists, and national security hawks - but criticized in Europe. Why the split?

By Mareike Moraal

More Than an Add-On? Centering gender equality in climate investments - Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC

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Feminist perspectives on global environmental justice

Environmental and climate crises are not gender neutral. They disproportionately affect people already facing multiple forms of discrimination. If feminist environmental policy is to extend beyond the effects on women, it needs to combine gender and ecological expertise. This dossier features a selection of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung's contributions over recent decades to international debates on environmental and gender justice.

Climate Finance Fundamentals

An introduction to climate finance, financial flows, the regions and countries funds reach, and the climate interventions funds target.

Climate Funds Update

An independent website that provides information and data on the growing number of multilateral climate finance initiatives designed to help developing countries address the challenges of climate change.

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#StandWithUkraine

We declare our full solidarity with Ukraine. We stand by the side of our Ukrainian partners and colleagues, and at the same time also by the side of our partners in Russian civil society who are under harsh state repression.

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Foreign & Security Policy

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Re-Imagining European Security

We have invited nine transatlanticists to Washington, DC, to re-imagine European security in an era of multiple disruptive threats.

12 months of Ukraine’s resistance: Russia-Ukraine war in numbers

February 24, marks one year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This attack was the culmination of a war of aggression that has been going on for 9 years. Here are the key facts and figures about this year.

By Mariana Zaviyska

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Feminist Foreign and Development Policy Fellowships

Feminist young professionals strengthening an inclusive and intersectional approach to policy-making and practice

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Alignment on values, but not yet on strategy – Green Foreign Policy after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The Heinrich Böll Stiftung’s Foreign Policy Conference in February gave a snapshot of the German Green Party’s foreign policy priorities vis-à-vis Ukraine and Eastern Europe

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Democracy & Society

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Building a Diverse and Inclusive Culture of Remembrance

Building a Diverse and Inclusive Culture of Remembrance (DAICOR) is a reciprocal transatlantic exchange program for individuals with a professional interest in the promotion of an inclusive and progressive culture of remembrance in public spaces in Germany and the United States.

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Memory and Democracy Study Tour 2022

Welcoming Communities Transatlantic Exchange

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Global Development Policy

What is Green Equity? - Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC

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World Bank Group’s Roadmap and Human Rights

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2022 Year in Review

In 2022, our internship program started again, study tours traveled once more, and we deepened our work in every program area - alongside so much more!

Infrastructure is Everywhere

How are private investors financing infrastructure—especially institutional investors, such as pension funds, which hold over $100 trillion? And can these investors help achieve public goods, such as no carbon economies? An introduction to global infrastructure projects

By Gustav Theile

G20 Resources

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Technology & Digital Policy

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Ukraine videos dominated the internet in 2022. What now?

Media Fellowship

Social media in Ukraine: how advocates and historians use it

By Leila Barghouty

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2022 Cohort of Transatlantic Media Fellows

After a round of strong applications, we are excited to announce our selection of Transatlantic Media Fellows for 2022.

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Glimmerland: Human rights in the mica supply chain

A satellite image-based investigation by Vertical52 reveals the extent of child labor in illegal mines in India that produce mica, a critical mineral for the tech industry.

By Sabine Muscat and Lisa Tostado

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Privacy is Global: Creative Storytelling for Data Protection Advocacy

Speculative audio fiction explaining the importance of data privacy

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Data and Development

This project aims to inform and connect policymakers, academics, and civil society in digital governance debates, with a special focus on amplifying voices from the Global South.

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Transatlantic perspectives on lessons from the pandemic

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From Our Media Fellows

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Choosing to stay in Poland to wait out the war

Media Fellowship

Poland has welcomed fleeing Ukrainians. But a cold winter, rising inflation, and minimal financial support from the government could strain the system.

By Cristina Maza

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Why local digital solutions in DR Congo remain overlooked

An economically demanding and foreign-dominated digital market, along with a lack of political will and trust, make it harder for local digital entrepreneurs to succeed in DR Congo.

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