The Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Initiative is in its third year, providing a summer Reunion/Conference at American University in Bulgaria. Five groups have visited Wake Forest Campus: The Founders (ages 15-17) and the Diplomats (ages 17-19). Participants in the Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Initiative took part in opportunities designed to foster relationships among youth from Eurasia, Europe and American in order to advance links and awareness of shared values, encounter principles of freedom and cooperation as challenges of the global 21st Century. Inspiring the Institutes is American statesman and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin, who prized religious tolerance over intolerance, social mobility over class privilege, and was a firm believer in free speech. We will seek an environment that encourages individual expression, communications, and information sharing in an effort to advance positive relationships among the various ethnic, religious, and national groups. Video descriptions below.
Wake Forest Press Announcement 2008
See State Department Announcement of the Ben Franklin Program
2008 Founders
