Summer University

Every year since 1996, usually in late June, the Liberální Institut, originally in cooperation with the F. A. Hayek Foundation (Slovakia), have organized an advanced seven-day seminar for university students and early graduates, entitled The Liberální Institut Summer University. Participants are introduced to the theoretical concepts of classical liberalism, especially in the fields of philosophy, economics, history, and law, through lectures and small discussion groups. By virtue of the fact that the lectures are given by active, well known liberal thinkers from the U.S., Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Slovakia, and are attended by young students from the Czech Republic as well as from Slovakia and Poland, the Summer University is a project with an international character, importance and impact.

In recent years it has taken place in a pleasent facilities of Penzion U tkadlen in a beautiful city Jindřichův Hadec in southern Bohemia.

The participants of the Summer University benefited form the presence of the following personalities: