The German-French Young Leaders (GFYL) Programme is an interdisciplinary platform for the new dynamic German and French leaders of tomorrow. Founded in 2015, the programme targets young professionals with outstanding profiles who have been little or not at all affected by German-French relations. By doing so, the GFYL Programme integrates those high potential profiles into the French-German discourse and a powerful joint European future. In 2021, GFYL starts with new formats. [more]

GFYL 2017 Conference Video

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GFYL 2017 Conference Video

In May 2017, 80 highly committed French, German and European young leaders came together in Berlin for the second edition of the German-French Young Leaders Conference. The conference focused on the German-French friendship and European cooperation, also summarised by our patron Valéry Giscard d'Estaing during his opening speech of the GFYL 2017 Conference: "Europe gave us peace, now it's time for becoming a real economic power. Let's move from peace to power."

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What the people say

"France and Germany have more in common than just our shared history. It is our aim to shape a joint future for our peoples - a future that will be much defined by the digital transformation. It therefore makes a lot of sense for France and Germany to work together across our national borders and follow a joint approach."

— Sigmar Gabriel (Patron of GFYL Conference 2016, Former German Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy)