The unintended consequences of raising the minimum wage were at the center of a successful campaign to help educate people in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the problems of market intervention. Association Multi, an Atlas Network partner based in Tuzla, successfully pushed back against a dangerous populist proposal to raise the minim...
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More than 200 champions of liberty from 44 countries met in Athens, Greece for Europe Liberty Forum, Atlas Network’s annual convention of think tank professionals and allies who meet to discuss the specific challenges facing European organizations and to engage each other on solutions that will promote free-market opportunities...
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Association Multi (Multi) has been awarded the 2019 Award for Student Outreach in Europe for “Education for Students and Young Leaders,” a lecture series on contemporary topics such as cryptocurrencies, behavioral economics, and marijuana legalization. As a result of Multi’s work, classical liberal ideas have been growing in Bos...
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Kyiv-based Ukrainian Students for Freedom (USF) has won Atlas Network’s 2018 Smith Student Outreach Award for its inaugural Leadership Program, which works with student leaders to provide communicative skills and knowledge on a range of activities from policy proposals to hosting events. Launched in 2013, the Smith Student Outre...
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The movement to advance liberty in the Balkans is evolving into a well-consolidated network. Liberalni Forum in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Lucha Institute in Montenegro have partnered to establish the Balkan Liberty Network to reinforce the work of several independent classical liberal institutions in the region. The Balkan Libert...
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Neither populism nor paternalism have to be in Europe’s future. 4liberty.eu has published the eighth issue of its biannual journal, 4liberty.eu Review — titled “Freedom, It’s Personal” — to aid in reversing these trends. 4liberty.eu is a network of 15 think tanks from Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, and the 4libert...
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Europe Liberty Forum 2018, presented by Atlas Network with local co-host the Center for Political Studies (CEPOS) and held in Copenhagen, Denmark, brought more than 150 think tank professionals from 35 countries across the region to discuss recent successes they’ve had and current challenges facing the continent. The conference...
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The winner of the Europe Think Tank Shark Tank competition is Ratko Nikolić – president of the Center for Anti-Authoritarian Studies – for his organization’s proposed Selfie Citizen Journalism project to train and develop 20 citizen journalists to report on corruption, cronyism, and civil liberties infringement. These journalist...
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Atlas Network is excited to announce the finalists of this year’s Think Tank Shark Tank — Europe competition, which is sponsored by the Smith Family Foundation and will be held during Europe Liberty Forum from May 29-30 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Three think tank professionals will compete in a showcase of the region’s most excitin...
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The Bosnian think tank Multi has demonstrated once more how effective non-traditional channels can be in introducing new audiences to the ideas of classical liberalism with its second annual OPEN Fest. Over 2,000 people participated in the festival, with a few more thousand attending at least some of the associated programs, and...
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Only 21 years ago, much of Bosnia and Herzegovina was torn apart by war. The healing process that began in November 1995 has been a slow, ongoing one, even to this day. This makes the success of the recently completed OPENFest all the more inspiring. OPENFest gathered around 2,000 people from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croa...
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The worldwide freedom movement’s most exciting new project ideas are showcased each year as part of Atlas Network’s Think Tank Shark Tank competition, sponsored by the Smith Family Foundation. This year’s edition will feature three contestants who will pitch their projects before a panel of judges and an audience of hundreds of...
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The future prospects of liberty can only be secured by instilling a passion for freedom in the youth of today. Atlas Network annually recognizes the best student-focused project for liberty with the $3,000 Smith Student Outreach Award. The 2016 winner is the Center for Free Market Enterprise (CFME), for its impressive efforts in...
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Freedom and innovation go hand in hand, and a recent conference in Bosnia and Herzegovina brought inspiring stories of liberty and entrepreneurship to hundreds of high school and university students. Multi (Udruzenje Gradana), an Atlas Network partner based in Bosnia and Herzegovina, organized the first STEPS Conference to bring...
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Successfully leading a think tank program, or an entire organization, takes much more than natural leadership and organizational skills — it requires an array of skills and strategies that must be learned from those who have already spent years in the trenches. Atlas Leadership Academy’s Think Tank MBA (TTMBA) training is an ann...
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An understanding of basic economic concepts among the general population is essential in order for a country to avoid falling prey to politically popular fallacies. Atlas Network partner Multi (Udruzenje Gradana) is bringing some of the most concise economic illustrations ever written to the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina with...
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You never know where your next big idea will originate — a dynamic speaker, a moving video, an interactive workshop, a chance conversation. Inspiration can arise from almost anywhere, and a primary reason that Atlas Network organizes Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner (LFFD) every year is to facilitate an environment in which there...
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Congratulations to the winner of this year’s $25,000 Think Tank Shark Tank competition Admir Čavalić of Bosnia and Herzegovina-based Multi for the “Balkan Liberty Fest” project proposal.
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Working toward a free society can often seem like an uphill battle, but that struggle is shared by Atlas Network partners across the globe. They all have valuable ideas and proven strategies for success to learn and to share with each other. Think Tank MBA (TTMBA), Atlas Network’s flagship training program within Atlas Leadershi...
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Every day, the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina wrestle with important issues that touch on their past, present, and future: violence, peace, migration, economic growth, government reforms, and much more. In Sarajevo, the nation’s capital, on Sept. 26, Atlas Network partner Multi (Udruzenje Gradana) held the second European Stud...
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When government regulation creates artificial barriers to hiring and firing employees, markets stagnate and job opportunities disappear — hurting the very labor force that such regulations are ostensibly intended to protect. That’s why Atlas Network partner Multi (Udruzenje Gradana), a think tank in Bosnia and Herzegovina, waged...
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Making an impact in public policy requires learning rigorous research methods and best practices in publishing policy papers. At the recent CPPR-Atlas Policy School 2015, participants spent 14 days of intensive training in which they were challenged to develop their research agenda, conduct field research, draft policy papers, a...
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A new generation of young libertarians is growing in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Participants in the Liberal Academy, an award-winning project of Atlas Network partner Multi (Udruzenje Gradana), have the opportunity to collect points throughout the year that, over time, demonstrate their mastery of the core ideas of liberalism and e...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina-based Association Multi was named winner of Atlas Network’s 2014 Smith Student Outreach Award for its projects that encourage students and young professionals to participate in the process of social change in the country.
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In Bosnia and Herzegovina, liberty’s next generation is learning about the basics of political economy, the current economic problems of today and monetary issues facing the country and the world. Atlas Network partner Association “Multi”, in collaboration with its partners, held three “Catallaxy” seminars this month in Sarajevo...
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