Best practices

The idea of this project was to make employers aware of discrimination at work (due to sex orientation). A conference was an especially important part of the project. Its members shared the most effective methods of preventing discrimination.

The “Ovidiu Şincai” European School is a project of the “Ovidiu Şincai” Institute organized under the aegis of the Council of Europe. It annually recruits 40 young participants selected from a wide spectrum of the Romanian society, including future decision-makers, representatives of parliamentary political parties, judiciary, public administration, journalists, businessmen/women.

In the context of the friction in Southern Thailand between Thai majority and the Muslim Malay minority, the project helps with mutual understanding and acceptance as well as introducing a minority rights protection system. Through awareness raising measures, the population of the South will be enabled to fully participate in democratic processes.

“Summer School – Lesson of Democracy” held in Gdansk, Poland in July 2007 was the first event that inaugurated annual se­ries of lectures and workshops addressed to young people from 18-26 years old (in­cluding young political leaders and debu­tants in local government).

This LYMEC seminar focused on the future of the different forms of International Cooperation in Europe (Council of Europe, OSCE, European Union, Meda Union) and what relations should be established between these organizations in view of the enlargement of the European Union.

The LYMEC seminar on "Re-launching a strategic partnership: EU and African Union" provided an open platform for participants and experts to openly discuss and asses the Euro-Mediterranean partnership. Through work groups and debates, young Liberals in Europe and Africa constructively confronted each other on how to push this partnership forward.

When Latvia re-gained its Independence in 1991, nobody could imagine that after 20 years of gradual economical rise suddenly large part of the population will face economical pressure to leave the country.

The FSF brought together specialists, scholars and politicians to discuss the demographical situation and growth perspectives for Latvia.

Among the activities of the GP Foundation, the workshop on the agrarian and rural issues in Africa begun in 2006 is one of the most productive projects we have in terms of intellectual debate, exchanges of ideas, publications and elaboration of alternative politics in agriculture, international cooperation and trade.

The challenge: one training for various Georgian political parties, including government parties and opposition parties. How to proceed? Since a few years, three Dutch political parties succeed in bringing together young people from both sides of the political spectrum, in a full 3 days training session. Read more about it in the best practice!

The LIBSEEN network of the liberal parties, organisations and institutes of south-eastern Europe was established in 2006 and re-lau­nched at a reunion in Skopje in April 2008 by the leaders of the liberal parties in the region. The conference held in Zagreb aimed at assisting political parties in their efforts to determine the current and future role and work of the liberal in south-eastern Europe, examining a number of policy topics which are reflective of the liberal ideology and initiating the topic of political party foundations or training centres.