embassy events

Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Initiative

Summer Institute for Youth

Wake Forest University

T he Summer Institute for Youth, a project under the Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Initiative is a three-week U.S.-based summer institute for 40 teenagers aged 16-19 from Europe, Eurasia, and the United States.  The Institute took place during the first three weeks of July 2006 at the campus of Wake Forest University, Winston- Salem, North Carolina, U.S.A.

The Czech Republic was represented by Eva Rosenová from Gymnazium Nad Aleji who was selected in a competitive process. 

It focused on civic education, leadership development, and community activism as a way to unite young adults across the Atlantic Ocean.

The initiative aimed to foster relationships among the younger generation of Europeans and Americans in order to advance the global freedom agenda, to serve as a basis to build strong links and awareness of shared values, and to enable youth to face together the challenges of global circumstances in the 21st Century.  The initiative is named after the legendary American statesman and diplomat in honor of the inspiration his own life and career provides those who want to increase transatlantic cooperation.