- February 06, 2024
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- February 06, 2024
On February 6, 2024, Aspen Germany hosted the second virtual meeting of its Laboratories of Democracy Initiative for the participating provincial legislators and Landtagsabgeordnete from Canada and Germany entitled “USA 101 – Exploring Subnational Governance in the USA“. Boris Vormann, Professor of Politics and Director of the Politics Section at Bard College Berlin, joined the meeting as an expert and speaker. Dr. Vormann’s presentation and the subsequent joint exchange addressed governance in the United States at the federal, state, and local level to lay the foundation for all upcoming discussions in this project. It gave the twenty Landtagsabgeordnete and provincial legislators from Canada the opportunity to learn more about the U.S. political system and the distribution of power and responsibilities. With regard to the focus topic of the third round of exchanges, a special emphasis was placed on critical infrastructure.
The project is supported by the Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany, funded by the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK).