Make it Durable: Renewing the Transatlantic Relationship
Letter from Aspen Institute España
Since its inception in 2011, Aspen Institute España has maintained a special interest in working with emerging young leaders, encouraging participation in its various programs, and working together with participants from different generations. This vision of Aspen Institute España responds to the idea that intergenerational dialogue amplifies the scope of the issues addressed and enriches its debates on values inspired leadership.
In recent years, we created various youth leadership programs to promote values-based leadership within Spanish society through its future leaders. In line with these projects, Aspen España has collaborated with other Aspen European Partners, through the Aspen Initiative for Europe and towards the creation of the Aspen Seminar for Young European Leaders; a program that aims to examine how young generations should engage with European ideals of today.
In addition to these programs, this new edition of the NextGen Network initiative aims to bring together young leaders from Europe and the United States to gain a new understanding of how the next generation views the challenges and strengths of the transatlantic relationship and to inform broader policy discussions in the U.S. and Europe.
In classic Aspen fashion, these workshops were based on readings distributed in advance by prominent authors from various fields and moderated by experts in these areas. With these texts as a springboard, this Socratic-dialogue addresses topical issues and explores common values and possible threats to the Transatlantic relationship. Together the group weighed policy suggestions in areas such as democracy, economic opportunity, sustainability, and digital technology.
This initiative has proven, once again, the relevance and synergies between the Aspen International Partners and our shared mission around the globe. Our hope is that this cohort of participants from both sides of the Atlantic will bring the ideas explored into action and that they build a new network of emerging leaders that will improve and strengthen the transatlantic relationship through a community of mutual learning and understanding.
José M. de Areilza
Secretary General
Aspen Institute España
Letter from Aspen Institute Kyiv
Involving the next generation of leaders in meaningful dialogue has been one of the top priorities for Aspen Institute Kyiv from the very beginning. Leadership seminars for emerging leaders and seminars for talented teenagers have become a part of our core programming allowing us to engage hundreds of young people.
The world is facing many great challenges: from pandemics to climate change, and from increasing inequality to the issues surrounding digitalization. In a new and rapidly changing global landscape, emerging leaders must look for innovative solutions to these difficulties. International leadership dialogue is essential to engaging within our complex world.
Issues of security, rethinking of democratic values, and technological proliferation take a notable place on the global agenda. The NextGen Network: Transatlantic initiative dialogue organized in cooperation with Aspen Spain and Aspen USA provided an international group of emerging leaders with an opportunity to deepen mutual understanding and share ideas about the future of transatlantic relations.
We believe that only by providing strong and committed leadership across the Atlantic we may maintain the fundamental values and ideals of a good society. We highly appreciate working together with Aspen Institute Spain and the Aspen Institute (USA), and with William Powers and Suzanne Lynch as esteemed moderators of The NextGen Network seminars.
Yuliya Tychkivska
Executive Director
Aspen Institute Kyiv