*The Young Ambassadors with Ambassador Amy Gutmann at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin*

Ambassadors in Sneakers 2022

Part 1: Saarbrücken & Berlin (Saturday June 4, 2022 - Saturday June 18, 2022)
Part 2: Reading, PA & Washington, D.C. (Saturday July 30, 2022 - Saturday August 13, 2022)

Part 1 of the 2022 Summer Academy is now complete! 

The young ambassadors (12 students from Germany and 12 students from the U.S) spent two exciting, educational, and eye-opening weeks together meeting activists, journalists, and politicians in Saarbrücken and Berlin, including the U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Amy Gutmann. They are learning about youth participation, human rights, transatlantic relations, and intercultural communication in both countries.

Next stop, Reading, Pennsylvania! For more information about the program, click here.

Check out the 2022 Summer Academy program plan for Germany!

About the AiS Summer Academy

"Ambassadors in Sneakers - A Young Leaders’ Transatlantic Summer Academy on Human Rights" is a four-week educational program that brings together youth councils from Germany and the USA in the summers of 2020 and 2021. The central focus is on the topic of human rights. It is against this background that participants learn about both countries’ political structures and international networking. While travelling together in the USA and Germany, the young leaders become familiar with important places and institutions that are significant for developing and defending human rights.

At a time when thousands are fleeing their homelands due to political/religious persecution, war, and famine, human rights and their violations are topics that young people often question. During their trips, they meet activists, people affected by recent events, media representatives, speakers, and politicians in Germany and the USA, and have the opportunity to learn from them and with them, thus helping gain a fuller perspective on the issues at hand.

If you want to support the "Ambassadors in Sneakers", please get in touch with us or donate now by clicking on the button below!

Previous Years

To find out what past Summer Academies were like, check out the links below:

2019

2018

2017

Sponsors and partners

Ambassadors in Sneakers is generously supported by the Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany, which is funded by the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi). Other supporters and program partners include the U.S. Embassy, the Goethe-Institutes, and many more.