Once more, Filipinos Dominate Seminar Selection for Germany

The Theodor Heuss Academy in Gummersbach, Germany

Filipinos dominate the list of participants invited to go to Germany by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation’s International Academy for Leadership (IAF). The recently concluded online seminar “No Education: No Freedom, No Opportunity” resulted in the IAF inviting no less than eight Filipinos to the Foundation’s Academy in Gummersbach, Germany. The eight are professionals from the private and public education sector, from the government, from the non profit field and from the media.

While in Germany these participants will continue discussions they started in the online seminar. Online workshops are open to all who are interested or who have experience in the specific themes of each conference. Based on individual performance, IAF invites up to 25 participants to meet in Germany for a more sophisticated dialogue.

“Once more, I am very pleased with the Filipinos' active contribution. We have a tradition of very impressive Philippine participation in our international workshops,” said the Foundation’s resident representative, Dr. Ronald Meinardus. “This may be attributed to their thirst for knowledge, openness to new ideas and desire for change in Philippine society and politics.”