Regional Seminars

For almost sixty years, the Aspen Seminar on leadership, values, and the good society has challenged leaders in every field to think more critically and deeply about the good society. Our proven method of text-based dialogue offers participants a neutral forum in which to reflect on timeless human values, pursue common ground, and cultivate a richer understanding of the human condition. Participants emerge from the Aspen Seminar personally renewed, professionally re-focused, and better prepared to lead as they confront the difficult choices of our ever-changing world.
Participants base their discussions on a selection of readings that have over the centuries discoursed on the concepts of liberty, equality, community and efficiency in their societies. The discussion is guided by skilled moderators familiar with the readings.

Inspired by Aspen's classical seminars, the Regional Seminars (RS) are hybrids in that they combine traditional Aspen-style moderated seminars with recent and topical text-based readings with moderation by distinguished subject-matter experts.

The Aspen Institute Romania's RS aims to build a culture of dialogue and facilitate networking among people with leadership abilities in the business/public sector elites in the European neighborhood. It aims at exposing them to universal values and free exchange of ideas and building bridges between people who may have divergent interests/views by discussing topics of shared interest. The RS is designed to provide emerging leaders with access to values and ethics-based learning on contemporary topics, and to a diverse network of professionals, with the objective of enhancing their lives, careers, and contributions to society.

The RS main Seminars for 2010 were as follows: 

26-28 March. Business and Ethics
19-21 November. Media in Crisis