Liberalismo – New Online Seminar in Latin America

The Latin American region of FNF will start a new online seminar on „Liberalismo” in Spanish starting from mid-August 2007. The seminar which is designed in close co-operation between FNF Regional Office for Latin America in Mexico City, the FNF Sao Paulo office in Brazil and the FNF partner Instituto de Estudos Avancados in Florianopolis, Brazil, is aimed at members of liberal parties and liberal minded NGOs.

The new seminar on liberalism is closely watched by the Foundation’s International Academy for Leadership (IAF) and the Virtual Academy in Germany since it is among the very first such online seminars of the Foundation developed outside Germany and, thus, may provide helpful information for similar activities elsewhere. Earlier, the Philippine project of the Foundation had organized a successful online seminar for participants in South East Asia.
Meanwhile, the online seminar “Journey into the world of entrepreneurship” in Portuguese will come to an end in late June 2007. This course was developed by the Institute for Advanced Studies in cooperation with FNF and the Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs (CONAJE) in Brazil and aims at young Brazilians who intend to set up their own business.

Thus far almost 1000 participants attended the four courses in 2007 of which more than 70% ended the course successfully. This is a good result, as experience has shown that usually only about a third of those who start an online course finish it. That the seminar was highly successfully is also reconfirmed by the fact that there is already a waiting list of 750 persons for any potential new course.