“Europe & Liberty” Summer Seminar in Gummersbach, Germany 2025

Name: “Europe & Liberty” Summer Seminar in Gummersbach, Germany 2025
Start: 2025-08-03T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-08-09T13:00:00+00:00

IES-Europe has been organizing “Europe & Liberty” seminars since 1989.
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation For Freedom has been our partner in organizing a seminar at their Theodor-Heuss Academy, Gummersbach for over 20 years and we are happy to renew this partnershipp once again in 2025!

The purpose of the seminar is to provide a general introduction to classical liberal thought as developed by Locke, Smith, Turgot, Say, Mises, Hayek and many many others.

The seminar follows the Socratic tradition: the lectures last no more than 45 minutes and are followed by time for discussion between the speaker and the participants. The debates then continue informally around meals and during free time.

The seminar is free of charge, the organizers cover the cost of tuition, accommodation and meals. But if some students are in a position to contribute they are invited to do so through the "contribute" tab.

Students wishing to participate must apply. To do this, simply click on the “application” tab and complete the different sections. Applicants will be informed of IES's decision quickly to allow them to make their travel plan in the best conditions.

Alberto Mingardi

Professor in History of Political Thought

University of Milan

Alberto Mingardi is Assistant Professor in History of Political Thought at IULM University of Milan. He is also the Director General of Istituto Bruno Leoni, Italy’s free-market think tank which he helped to establish in 2004. He is also an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute and an Affiliate at the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University. His main scientific interest is the history of political thought. He has written a monograph on Thomas Hodgskin (Thomas Hodgskin, allievo anarchico di Adam Smith, Venezia: Marsilio, 2016) and one on Herbert Spencer (New York & London: Continuum, 2011).

Radu Nechita

Associate Professor of Economics

Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Radu Nechita is an associate professor who teaches Microeconomics, Globalization and Development, European Economic Integration at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Department of European Studies). His general topics of interest gravitate around the institutional factors of development, with emphasis on regulations, monetary and fiscal policies.

Pierre Garello

Professor of Economics

Universite Aix-Marseille

President of IES-Europe and Editor-in-Chief of both the Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines and Journal des Libertés, Pierre Garello is Professor of Economics at the Faculté d’Economie et Gestion of Aix Marseille University in France. He has published various articles on Austrian economics, law and economics (especially competition law and contract law). He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines, a scholarly review dealing with economic, legal, philosophical and political issues, in the tradition of the French Classical Liberal School.

Christian Năsulea

Professor of Economics

University of Bucharest

Christian Năsulea teaches Economics at the Department of International Relations and Universal History at the Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest. He is the Executive Director of the Institute for Economic Studies - Europe and a fellow of the Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Issues. His areas of research interest include public policy and stimuli for economic development, political and commercial negotiation in international relations, behavioural economics and decision processes.

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