Awards and Stipends

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The City of Berlin Scholarship Buddy Bear was the German-American cooperative project of the artists Frank Rödel and Bill C. Ray. The names of the German supporters (as of September 2002) of the “Berlin helps the USA” campaign are listed on the reproduction of the twin towers.

The Checkpoint Charlie Foundation annually awards two prizes and stipends:

Travel grant for recipients of the AATG’s Outstanding German Educator Award
in connection with the American Association of Teachers of German, the grant funds an educational journey to Berlin for the three recipients of the Outstanding German Educator Award.

City of Berlin Scholarship
for children who lost one or both parents on September 11, 2001