Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation for Freedom

Vladimir Gilca

Project Coordinator

Moldova

Vladimir.Gilca@FNST.ORG

The Foundation in Figures

• Budget: 49 Million Euros

• Regional offices in Germany: 8

• Domestic staff (positions): 161

• Number of events: approximately 1.000

throughout Germany

• Project countries: over 60 worldwide

• Staff abroad (dispatched): 31

• Local staff abroad: ca. ~250(As of 2012)

Our patron

• Protestant theologian from Saxony

• Representative of social Liberalism

• Member of the Reichstag in 1907

• Co-founder in 1918 (and later leader) of

the German Democratic Party

• Political mentor of Theodor Heuss

Friedrich Naumann

(1860-1919)

Our History

1958 The Foundation was initiated by

Theodor Heuss, the first president

of the Federal Republic of

Germany

1963 Beginning of the Foundation's

work abroad.

2007 Renamed “Friedrich Naumann

Foundation for Freedom”

The Mission: Civic education based on

the ideas of Liberalism

Basic principles

• Freedom and personal responsibility

• Openness and tolerance

• The respect of human rights

• Market economy and the rule of law

Project Countries

MML, Cairo

LA, Mexico-City

Africa, Johannesburg

SA, New Dehli

SOOA, Bangkok

MSOE, SofiaEINA, Brüssel

Regional Offices

Economic Freedom Economic rights are fundamental rights in the sense that without

them there can be no political freedom or civil freedoms

They are a prerequisite for growth and development

They are a prerequisite for broader human development

Increases prosperity for all

Reduces poverty

Increases other freedoms

Improves quality of life

There is increasing global agreement about the need for more economic freedom

Recent deviations from some aspects of economic freedom will be unlikely to persist in the face of the general move toward more freedom

Subregion Southeast Europe

Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Moldova

The FNF has been working in Romania and

Bulgaria since 1990 in support of the ongoing

transformation process, launching activities in

Macedonia and Moldova in the late ninties.

Free Market Road Show Train of the Trainers

GEW

Improving Investment Climate

2015

Improving Investment Climate

2015

There is more information about the Foundation's work

and on further liberal topics as well as a list of events and

publications plus lots of daily entries at:

www.freiheit.org

http://www.fnf-southeasteurope.org/

Vladimir.Gilca@FNST.ORG

Mobile.: +373 79 00 53 34

Facebook: fnfseeThanks for your interest!