Scroll down for a list of upcoming GABC events and Events in the Community! | | If you missed these events, here are the highlights: | |
Trump's First 100 Days
The room at the Goethe Institut was packed this week for a well-timed discussion on "President Trump's First 100 Days" with a focus on tariffs & trade. Hon. Bernadette Jordan, Consul General of Canada in Boston, and Christoph Schemionek, President & CEO, Delegation of German Industry and Commerce in Washington, DC. represented the Canadian and German views respectively. The conversation was moderated by Claus Hecking, U.S. correspondent of DER SPIEGEL. The event was co-hosted with the German Consulate General in Boston.
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| | Consul General Jordan, Claus Hecking,Christoph Schemionek | | Make sure to follow us on | | | This exclusive half-day Forum brings together leading executives from the life sciences industry to discuss key issues shaping the future of healthcare and biotech. The Forum will delve into the complexities of driving innovation within an increasingly challenging funding environment and highlight the contrast between large pharma, which have evolved their innovations over generations, and biotech disruptors that often push the envelope with groundbreaking approaches. | | | |
European-American Business Networking
Tueday, May 27th
6:00PM to 8:00PM EST in person | French Library
Hosted by the French Library in their beautiful, fully-restored Victorian mansion in Boston’s Back Bay, enjoy drinks and light appetizers while meeting your international business peers.
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GABC at Fenway
Tuesday, May 20th
6:45PM First pitch at Fenway
We secured a dozen seats for a quintessential Boston spring outing to Fenway on Tuesday, May 20th to watch the classic rivalry play out between the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox. Join us!
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Join Team GABC at the Cambridge 5K!
Sunday, June 1,2025
9:30AM Race Start
If you enjoy running, run with Team "GABC" and fellow members & friends at the Cambridge 5K.
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Stammtisch at Jack's Abby
Wednesday, May 15th
6:30PM EST
The Metro West GABC Stammtisch meets in Framingham! If you are living or working in Metro West, this is the Stammtisch for you: We are looking forward to seeing you Jack's Abby Beer Hall & Kitchen in Framingham.
| | Wissenschaftsreferentin / Wissenschaftsreferenten | | | | |
Das Generalkonsulat der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Boston sucht baldmöglichst eine Wissenschaftsreferentin / einen Wissenschaftsreferenten. Bewerbungsschluss 12. Mai 2025.
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| | MoForum 2025 | Life Sciences | | |
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Leading the Way, an exclusive gathering where leadership, mentoring, and innovation in the life sciences take center stage. This event will include inspiring keynote speakers, engaging panel discussions, dynamic company presentations.
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In person | The Newbury Hotel | Wednesday, May 7th,
8:30AM to 3PM
| | Last chance to register for 2025/2026 | | | | |
Registration for new and waitlisted families ends on May 3rd. The German Saturday School teaches German to children preschool to 12th grade on Saturdays at the Diamond Middle School in Lexington.
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Registration for New & Waitlisted Families: April 6 - May 3, 2025
| | Flea Market at German International School | | | | |
This Saturday: the German International School's Flea Market. Visit the Upper Campus (57 Holton Street) to stock up on gently used books, games, toys, clothing, and more.
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In person | Saturday, May 3rd, 1PM to 4PM
| | Weinbar at the Goethe-Institut | | | | |
Sip on delicious wine and enjoy tasty bites at the Wein Bar Networking and Fundraiser Event! There will also be a raffle with fantastic prizes — every ticket purchased will go towards Studio 170. Don’t miss out on a night of fun and community spirit while supporting your local arts community.
Admission Tickets
In person | Friday, May 16th, 6:00PM to 8:00PM
| | Summer Online German Courses through UMass Amherst | | | | |
The German Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced its summer online German language course offerings, including
Courses run from May 19 to July 1, 2025, with a preview/ orientation week beginning May 12. Contact & questions: Julia Feldhaus
| | DAAD Alumni Award for Jason Wong | | Photo: DAAD Alumni USA Awardee Dr. Jason Wong with Awards Chair Sigrid Berka and DAAD AA-USA President Manfred Philipp, © Beowulf Sheehan for DAAD via LinkedIn | | Jason Wong, member of the GABC YP steering committee, was recently awarded the mid-career Award for Excellence in International Exchange as a proponent for German innovation in sustainability and related educational exchanges. Jason is Assistant Professor of Economics at Babson College. | | A direcMentorship Cohort 2024-25 Final Meet-Up
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The mentorship program concluded this week with a final in-person social gathering at Night Shift Brewery. The cohort began in October with a kick-off event at VentureLane, after which eight mentor-mentee pairs were matched who have been meeting independently since then. Special thanks to our devoted mentors, many of whom are returning every year, for your dedication to this program! Applications for the 2025-26 cohort will open soon.
More information on the program.
| | Stammtisch at Lamplighter CX (Cambridge) on April 10 | | A Stammtisch is regulary organized by the Young Professionals, both in Cambridge and in Framingham and continues to be very popular and open to all! Sign up for the next one at Jack's Abby on May 15th! | | | | Condor is back in Boston! Up to 7x weekly with an extended season from May 1st to October 23rd. Fly in comfort with our all new Airbus A330-900neo aircraft sporting our new famously unique striped livery. Not just for vacation anymore, Condor offers 30 Business class lie-flat seats, 64 premium economy and 216 economy seats serving the needs of the corporate business as well as the leisure traveler. Experience stripes to stripes, with Condor´s new connections from Frankfurt to Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, Zurich, Rome, Milan, Paris and Prague! Contact your travel agent or www.condor.com for more information. | | | Immigration crackdown threatens Boston biotech talent pool | |
Excerpt: "Angelika Fretzen, COO and technology translation director at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, said researchers are concerned about traveling, whether to a conference or to visit their homes.
“We have a lot of postdocs coming from all over the world who want to do research here, and are fantastic,” said Fretzen, who is originally from Germany. “It's a big decision to go into another country anyway, but it's an even bigger decision if you're not sure that you can freely move and see your family back home or go to conferences and exchange in other countries with other scientists."
| |  | Germany's Merck KGaA in $3.9 billion deal to buy US biotech firm SpringWorks | Excerpt: "Germany's Merck KGaA (MRCG.DE), has struck a deal to buy U.S. biotech company SpringWorksTherapeutics (SWTX.O), for an equity value of $3.9 billion to add rare cancer therapies ahead of expected revenue losses linked to expiring patents.(...) “The deal is the largest for Merck's pharmaceutical unit since the 2007 takeover of Serono for more than $13 billion." | | | | Germany's new cabinet: who's who? | |
Excerpt: "A new coalition government is taking shape in Berlin, with chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz picking close allies and corporate executives for his cabinet to tackle Germany's economic malaise amid trade tensions and a surging far right.
Merz's conservative CDU/CSU bloc announced its nominees on Monday but the junior party in the incoming coalition, the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), are not expected to name their candidates, including for the finance and defence ministries, until later."
| | | Arbeitsmarkt wächst stark – Trump will dennoch Zinssenkungen | |
Auszug: "Der US-Arbeitsmarkt ist in einer robusteren Verfassung als erwartet. Außerhalb der Landwirtschaft hat die US-Wirtschaft im April 177.000 neue Stellen geschaffen, wie aus Zahlen eines am Freitag veröffentlichten Berichts der US-Regierung hervorgeht. Ökonominnen und Ökonomen waren im Vorfeld von 130.000 neuen Stellen ausgegangen. Die getrennt davon ermittelte Arbeitslosenquote liegt unverändert bei 4,2 Prozent.
Die neuen Daten bieten einen ersten Ausblick auf die Folgen der Wirtschaftspolitik von US-Präsident Donald Trump. Denn der am Freitag veröffentlichte Arbeitsmarktbericht ist eine der ersten Statistiken, die die Konsequenzen der US-Zölle zumindest teilweise abbildet."
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