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Ongoing 
 exchange

The German-American Fulbright Commission promotes students in many ways.

13.08.2014
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The new Berlin offices still feel quite fresh to the staff of the German-American Fulbright Commission, who only moved in this spring. The offices might be new, but staff’s concept of a transatlantic dialogue has been doing a great job for decades. The Fulbright Commission promotes mutual understanding between the USA and Germany by means of academic and cultural exchange, and this has not changed since the German headquarters moved from Oranienburger Strasse to Lützowufer.

Student exchanges are at the center of 
the German-American Fulbright Program. It is complemented by scholarship programs for post-doctoral scientists, doctoral students and foreign language as­sistants, and offers further-training sem­inars for university administrators and experts in Regional Studies. In addition, there is a program that invites young American journalists to Germany. Since its inception in 1952, this German-Amer­ican exchange has supported approx. 44,000 Americans and Germans, making it the largest of the Fulbright Commission’s global programs. On the German side the program is funded by the Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), and for eight years now a growing emphasis has been placed on promoting scholarship holders with an immigrant background. ▪