The expertise hubs enrich the international profile of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. They enable joint work across regions through their focus on globally relevant policy issues. These include questions of international financial and economic policy, digital policy, security, development and human rights policy.
We are Active in over 60 Countries: The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom is committed to working with all its strength for a liberal world. Our core concern is the realization of freedom and responsibility. We promote the development of democratic, market-based and constitutional structures so that more and more people can live in a liberal, democratic society.
Through the connection of EU experts, civil society, and decision makers we seek to foster open dialogue and discuss liberal policy solutions to European challenges. Together with our liberal partners, we develop formats and campaigns to promote rule of law, free markets and human rights. Moreover, we coordinate EU co-funded projects in the field of democracy support, development cooperation and human rights protection.
Through our seven offices in the MENA Region, we actively promote the political debate to support innovative liberal approaches and solutions. Our projects are liberal platforms on which the Foundation's partners from the Gulf to the Levant and the entire southern side of the Mediterranean can provide creative impulses and discuss geopolitical issues.
From our seven offices in Sub-Saharan Africa, we focus on promoting political networking. We are committed to strengthening liberalism and promoting human rights, the rule of law and the social market economy.
In North America, our focus is on the transatlantic partnership, which we see as a supporting pillar for the security and stability of Western democracies. We encourage the political debate and develop innovative liberal approaches. In Latin America we work to promote strong democratic institutions, respect for human rights and rule of law as well as promoting liberal dialogue throughout the region.
With its offices in Asia, the foundation supports programs to strengthen democratic processes, particularly free and fair elections, and transparent and accountable governance. The Foundation in the region also showcases innovation as a tool to encourage civic participation that further promotes freedom.
The Regional Director of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF South Asia), Dr. Ronald Meinardus, was in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 2nd February through 4th February, 2015. Meeting the...
Bangladesh is a country which was initially part of British colonization, later India, and then Pakistan finally becoming an independent nation after fighting a liberation war against Pakistan in 1971...
Ever since I joined the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF Bangladesh) at the Dhaka office, I heard wonderful stories from people who had attended the International Academy for Leadership...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia - ICTY has collected a vast amount of factual evidence on the horrific events...
By all measures, I have been a privileged Bangladeshi since birth. Both of my parents were highly educated, and I received the best education a developing country can offer. While I had bit of a rough...
In this episode, we talked to Michael Lobeck from and Dragutin `Drago` Djeković from about the increased use of technology sparked by the pandemic, our changing lifestyles and new working attitudes...
For today`s Digital and Open Society (DOS) episode, we talked to robotics researcher and engineer, Maja Hadžiselimović , and with Jovan Tisma, Startup Genome Ambassador to #Serbia. How have their...
In a relaxed series of web-talks, the FNF talks to its partner organisations in the field of civil and human rights what particularly moves them in times of "Covid19 pandemic", how they perceive the...
“I cannot stand it when a human being is humiliated, so that’s the reason I do journalism — to remind people they have rights. It can be a child that is being abused, it can be a migrant who is...
Europe for the first time! Lots of excitement accumulated in me, and also clouds of fear. Due to the different cultural backgrounds, I was a bit afraid if I would be able to use the time properly...