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From http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/newsletter/Germany__In__Class/Germany-in-Class-201701.html

Germany has assumed the G20 presidency for 2017. The Group of Twenty (G20) is an international forum that brings together the world’s 19 major advanced and emerging economies plus the European Union. The top priority of Germany’s G20 presidency is to continue to take responsibility for shaping a stable world. This also means involving future generations in the G20 process. For this reason, Germany wants to bring together students from all G20 countries and encourage them to engage with global challenges. That is why the German Finance Ministry is providing teaching materials as well as technical and administrative infrastructure in the form of the G20 Global Classroom, which is being set up in cooperation with the Joachim Herz Foundation in Hamburg.

By joining the Global Classroom in the G20 Finance Track, your students will have the opportunity to become a G20 Finance Expert. The course will cover what G20 Finance Minister meetings are about, why economic growth and financial stability matter, and what role international organizations play in global and national politics.

Upon successful completion of the course, your students will be awarded a certificate documenting their expertise. And if they choose to participate in our essay competition, they will even have a chance to go to Hamburg, Germany, to experience the G20 Summit at special events for students.

Students must meet the following conditions:
•    They have access to the Internet.
•    They were born between 1998 and 2002.
•    They are able to communicate in English.

For full details about this program, go to http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Web/EN/Issues/Featured/G20/classroom/teachers/teachers.html;jsessionid=C4D719C2B03D19969563F690CFBCC5E0 (for teachers) and http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Web/EN/Issues/Featured/G20/classroom/students/students.html;jsessionid=C4D719C2B03D19969563F690CFBCC5E0 (for students).