In 2022-2023 the American Council on Germany implemented a series of immersive study tours to Germany to learn about Germany’s dual vocational education system. On May 9 during the U.S. Department of Labor’s first National Youth Apprenticeship Week, the ACG held a conversation with professionals who participated in these programs to hear about the lessons learned and best practices and what they are now striving to implement as a result in their states and communities.
As part of the virtual series Superwahljahr 2024, on May 8, the ACG held a discussion on the elections in India with the Süddeutsche Zeitung South-East Asia Correspondent, David Pfeifer.
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. On May 6, the ACG held a Kaffeepause with Bojan Pancevski, Germany Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.
On May 1, the American Council on Germany and the Global Coalition on Aging hosted the first in a series of online webinars in the run-up to the Silver Economy Forum in Berlin. Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, and Prof. Dr. Andrea Maier, Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore, discussed the trends, challenges, and opportunities of the demographic megatrend that is our aging population.
On April 18, the American Council on Germany and the German Consulate General New York hosted a discussion as part of the virtual series “Dealing with Disinformation.” Experts Dr. Walter J. Scheirer (author of A History of Fake Things on the Internet) and Dr. Heidi Tworek (author of News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945) joined us to discuss the history of disinformation, the role of technology in its spread, and the future of fake news.