Welcome to the website of the U.S. Ambassador's Youth Council!
The Youth Council is a group of young people who advise the U.S. Ambassador and the United States Embassy in Prague on how to reach the young Czech generation and who work together on projects supporting civil society and promoting Czech-American relations.
Our projects
Below, you can take a closer look at our projects and our daily activities.
We are engaged in activities supporting civil society and Czech-American relations. Every year, we prepare new projects on diverse topics in cooperation with various public institutions.
Meetings with officials
Apart from meeting the Ambassador of the United States in Prague, one of our regular activities is meeting with American officials, ambassadors, and experts in various fields. In the current situation, meetings are primarily held in the online environment, which allows us to meet with representatives regardless of where they are in the world.
Meetings with the Ambassador
Ever since the Youth Council's founding in 2018, one of our periodical activities have been meetings with the U.S. Ambassador in Prague.
Town Halls
Youth Council Town Halls is a long-term educational project for high school students to discuss the topics of security, defense, and democracy in the Czech Republic with Petr Pavel, a former Army General and former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, and Petr Kolář, a former Ambassador to Washington and Moscow.
Guardians of Freedom
The Guardians of Freedom is this year's project of the U.S. Ambassador’s Youth Council that was selected for the Small Grant Program of the Embassy of the United States of America. It aims to present to high school students that democracy is not just a distant philosophical concept that describes our political system in theory, but that it is a concept inextricably linked to our daily decisions and choices.
Interviews with potential new members
The U.S. Ambassador's Youth Council is currently accepting applications for new members.
Youth Security Forum
Youth Security Forum offers high school students a unique opportunity to meet the leading Czech and American experts in the field of security policy. In three panels, the Youth Security Forum will expand their knowledge of security and other related topics.
A Republic, If You Can Keep It!
During the project week, students from different Prague high schools could virtually join Masaryk on his journey from Prague to the United States at the backdrop of WWI. They could witness all the passionate debates and even the signing of the Declaration of Independence of the Czechoslovak Nation by its Provisional Government. In an audiovisual presentation at the American, Center, it was Masaryk, himself, who guided the students through his meetings with Woodrow Wilson, his ideological opponent Charles I of Austria, and even with his beloved wife, Charlotte.
We prepared an audiovisual program and organized a marathon of lectures about the establishment of the Republic for high school students: more here.
Masaryk project
More than a hundred years ago, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk traveled to the USA to meet with President Wilson and introduce him to the idea of a new, independent country established on the principles of democracy and freedom. More than a hundred years ago, a unique journey began, at the end of which stood a free Czechoslovak nation in the heart of Europe.
Following the project A Republic, If You Can Keep It!, we created a video that tells the story of the establishment of the Republic: more here.
Debates
U.S. Ambassador’s Youth Council engages in organizing various activities and events for students as well as the general public. Debates on current topics and pressing issues, such as elections, democracy, and security, take place either in person or online. Currently, we have moved all projects to an online format, but they still retain their unique interactive character.
More about debates.