Entries by Global Bridges

Study Trip to Ethiopia and Ghana

Addis Ababa – Accra September 15 – 22, 2019 Compared to China, whose population will remain at 1.4 billion by 2050, the population of Africa will grow from the current 1.3 billion to 2.3 billion. The challenges involved are enormous, but so are the opportunities for the “Continent of the Century”. Time for Global Bridges […]

2019 Global Bridges Conference / X Young Leaders Alumni Conference

Riga, Latvia July 11-13, 2019 Topic: “The Baltic Bridge: Latvia as a Key Player in a Modern Europe” This year’s 2019 Global Bridges Conference / X Young Leaders Alumni Conference took place in Jūrmala and Riga, Latvia on the shores of the Baltic Sea with more than 40 amazing Young Leader Alumni, Global Bridges-members and […]

IV Walther Leisler Kiep Symposium 2019

Berlin, Germany June 24/25, 2019 Topic: China as a Global Competitor: Implications for Europe On 25 June 2019 the Fourth Walther Leisler Kiep Symposium discussed the challenges and opportunities of China’s rise. After generations of passive introspection, China is reappearing as an active power, engaging in foreign policy, staking out its geostrategic, territorial and technologic […]

VIII German-Chinese Young Leaders Conference

Dresden, Germany June 02 to 07, 2019 Topic: “Identify Bridge-Builder and Bridges of the 21st Centry” On the occasion of the VIII German-Chinese Young Leaders Conference, about 20 German and 20 Chinese young leaders the fields of politics, business and the media came together to in early June to discuss current issues and get to […]

II Study Trip to Russia

Moscow – St. Petersburg May 26 – June 1, 2019 This year’s Study Trip to Russia was set on the backdrop of a few key objectives: 1) to obtain a perspective on the political status quo and mindset in Russia in light of recent years’ political tensions (and sanctions) with the Western World, 2) to […]