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THE 2008 EDITION OF THE RESOURCE BANK
Between October 9 and 12, 2008 The New Economic School - Georgia (NES) is hosting in Tbilisi, sixteen centuries old capital of Georgia the Fifth European Resource Bank Meeting (ERBM),the largest annual congress of free market think-tanks in Europe.
The aim is to provide participants with unparalleled networking opportunities, as well as with the opportunity to learn and share think-tank methods and techniques that proved to work on liberty's side.
Mart Laar, great friend of NESG & liberty,distinguished politician, free marker reformer and historian who made history of his own country, currently MP of Estonia, Prime Minster of Estonia in 1992-1994 & 1999-2002 years, economic adviser to president of Georgia since 2006 joins our invitation to 5 th European Resource Bank Meeting during 9-12 October, 2008 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Please see Mart Laar’s video invitation
To learn more about 5th ERBM, click on the news'
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RESOURCES TO WIN BATTLES FOR FREEDOM
If your are serious about the promotion of pubic policies and legal reforms that would cut back on government spending and foster individual freedom and responsibility then you must join us in Tbilisi for the 5th European Resource Bank.
From Thursday evening, October 9th until Saturday evening October 12th leaders from dozens of think tanks and from the four corners of Europe and beyond will meet to share experience and learn, from expert and from the success stories of their colleagues, new strategies to win more battles for liberty.
This is indeed the primary goal of a “resource bank”: to discover resources that can greatly increase our degree of success in our daily work. This includes meeting with new people hence enriching our respective networks, but it also includes acquiring practical skills such as creating a business plan for your institute, fundraising by the mean of direct mailing, using Youtube videos and podcasts or promoting a bill through the government.
FRIDAY IS "POLICY DAY"
We all know, more or less, what are the reforms to be implemented in our respective countries. We know, for instance, that, in almost every country, the pension funds regime calls for urgent reforms. We know that education, at every level, must be taken out of the hands of the State and should rest more on entrepreneurial talents. We know that the common agricultural policy is a shameful waste of taxpayer money and is badly damaging many poor countries. We know that one way to speed up the reform process is often to reduce tax revenues and ask for a balanced budget hence forcing the State to give back to private initiative those areas of social life. What is less evident is how those changes can be set on the reform agenda of our countries. How can we get pubic decision makers to promote those reforms?
During the “Policy day” you will have the opportunity to attend sessions devoted to specific countries that have had relatively successful transitions to freer systems (Ireland, Estonia, Slovakia, Georgia, Austria, Spain...) Focus will be placed not on the content of the reform but on the strategies used to have them adopted and implemented successfuly.
SATURDAY IS "PRACTICAL SKILLS DAY"
Although most of our Institutes are of modest size, with good organization and an efficient use of the many tools available to us a lot can be done. During that day, participants will have the opportunity to lean the tools, not just to hear about it. Sessions such as “How to Go from Zero to Web 2.0 in 30 Minutes” or “How to build a business plan for my organization”, or “How to use podcasts and videos efficiently?” will be lead either by some of our colleagues familiar with those tools or by external consultants.
WHY GEORGIA?
Ranked reformer number one by the “Doing Business Project” two years in a row, Georgia offers a good—and one of the most recent—illustration of countries which have resolutely taken the path towards a freer economy. This is a first good reason to hold our annual meeting there (previous meeting were held successively in Bulgaria, Lithuania, Austria and Romania).
But Georgia is also a country little known from most of us who receive only biased or incomplete information through the media. This will be a unique opportunity to meet with people active in the think tank business, from Georgia but also from surrounding countries, including some of the public decision makers who have been driving forces in the liberalization of the country.
THE VENUE
The conference will be taking place at the Sheraton Hotel, Tbilisi. The hotel is conveniently located 20 minutes away from the airport. Participants to the conference can either reserve a room at the Sheraton or at nearby hotels (a list of available hotel is posted on the website of the conference).
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=132
ABOUT THE HOST AND ORGANIZATION
European Resource Banks are the concerned of many European and non-European think tank leaders who strongly believe in the fruitfulness of those meetings and are collaborating to its organization (see the list of founding Institutes below). Every meeting, however, is hosted by a “local” institution. This year we will have the pleasure to be welcomed by the New Economic School-Georgia.
NESG is a society for dissemination of economic knowledge. It was founded in 2001, though official registration of it was done in 2002, by Paata Sheshelidze and Gia Jandieri. This was their second attempt after they co-founded, in 1989, one of the first NGOs in Soviet Union with the similar mission (The Association of Young Economists of Georgia). NESG is a not-for-profit institution oriented towards creation of public opinion, based on classical liberal economic thoughts (mainly Austrian and Public Choice schools). Its main ideas are methodological individualism, personal freedom and limited government.
TO REGISTER AND TO CONTACT US
All information regarding the 5th European Resource Bank are posted on this website.
Registration for the conference can be done directly online here or see the horizontal menu, where you will also find the updated program of the event, information about hotels, advises for international transportation and exchange rates as well as proposals for optional touristic entertainments inside Georgia.
Please note that there is:
NO participant fee for international participants of ERBM.
NO visa required for visit Georgia.
Tanks to Atlas Economic Research Foundation (USA), limited travel grants are available for young activists, representatives of oppressive and former communist countries as well as emerging free market institutions.
If you requesting travel grant please send motivation letter to office@nesgeorgia.org.
If you have any comments, suggestion or wish to support financially or otherwise the organization of this meeting, please contact directly Pierre Garello at p.garello@ies-europe.org and Paata Sheshelidze at paatasheshelidze@nesgeorgia.org or by cell: +995 93 305468.
To contact directly the hosting organization, the New Economic School-Georgia use the following:
Tel: +995 32 998418
Tel./Fax: +995 32 204321
E-mail: office@nesgeorgia.org
Web:www.nesgeorgia.org
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