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Germany Supports OAS on New Project Worth $200,000

Nov 17, 2009 | Germany.info
Organization of American States

As part of its longstanding cooperation with the Organization of American States (OAS), Germany is supporting a new project to integrate a gender perspective into OAS electoral observation missions. 

Successful Transatlantic Media Dialogue Ahead of Copenhagen Climate Summit

Nov 17, 2009 | Germany.info
Exchanging Views

In the run up to the Copenhagen climate summit, German and US journalists and climate policy experts met for a “Transatlantic Media Dialogue” on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. 

Search for Missing Schiller Relic Ends

Nov 17, 2009 | Young Germany
Dawn and morning mist over a lake in the Water Tank Lakes Area, Tahquamenon , Falls State Park, Michigan. (c) picture-alliance/Photoshot

Historians have attempted for years to clarify where the stolen skull of poet Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) has ended up. Now they have announced the search will end, even though the case is far from closed.

Summer Internship Program in Berlin for American Students of Journalism or Communication

Nov 17, 2009 | DAAD
internXchange

Applications are now being accepted for the third year of “internXchange,” an intensive scholarship-supported summer seminar/internship program in Berlin for 20 American journalism and communications students with strong German language skills. 

That Ever Child-Like Quality – Michael Ende

Nov 16, 2009 | Federal Foreign Office
Michael Ende in 1989 (c) dpa - Bildfunk

Michael Ende, one of Germany's most popular postwar writers of children's books, would have turned 80 this year. His books, includin Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story), have been translated into 45 languages and have sold over 20 million copies worldwide.