LFMI is organising a week of economic studies for the best applicants, which will be held on November 10-16. Staged for the first time in Lithuania, these courses have been tailored for those individuals who are willing to analyze more thoroughly the causes and the effects of economic policy solutions.

Comprehensive lectures on 14 topics of economic policy will be delivered to senior students of economics or other social and humanitarian sciences, as well to graduate professionals.

These courses will focus predominantly on the Austrian school of economics.

LFMI’s President Remigijus Šimašius said that despite its substantial contribution to the science of economics, the Austrian school is scarcely analysed during economic studies in Lithuania and is even marginalised. “We are filling this gap and expanding the activity of economic education, including more exhaustive studies on the Austrian school of economics,” – Mr. Šimašius explained the motive of this initiative.

Thirty-five best applicants, selected by the courses’ commission, have already been accepted to the courses.

All lectures will be delivered by well-known Lithuanian analysts and internationally acknowledged lecturers who specialise in the Austrian economics. Among them are priest Dr. Kęstutis Kėvalas, who has defended doctoral thesis “Resources of Free Economics and Aims As Per Encyclical “Centisimus Annus”” this year, Dr. Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Economic Advisor to the President of Lithuania, professor of economics from Nevada University (USA) Hans Hermann Hoppe and Prof. Josef Sima, Head of the Department of Institutional Economy of Economy University of Prague (Czech Republic).

Partners of this project are Swedbank and the ISM University of Management and Economics.