It is my pleasure to announce an exciting new initiative – the Young Atlanticist NATO Working Group and Young Atlanticist Summits.  This year we are building on our previous Young Atlanticist summits and forming a working group of leading young minds to discuss issues related to transatlantic and global security.  Members of this group will have access to a series of unique online programming, including a running peer-peer dialogue and a series of web and phone conferences with leading experts and practitioners.  Members of the working group will also have the opportunity to earn subsidized in-person participation in one or both of two Young Atlanticist Summits – one on the margins of the GLOBSEC Security Conference in Bratislava in April 2012, and the other on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Chicago in May 2012. 

I encourage you to apply and kindly ask that you spread the opportunity widely with your own network.  We are recruiting participants from all NATO member and partner countries.  Please note that those who have participated in a previous Young Atlanticist Summit are not eligible for subsidized attendance for the 2012 events. 

The application can be downloaded at www.youngatlanticist.org, and note the February 6 deadline for submission.