2014 ISFLC Award Winners
Restart Balkans – Event of the Year
Students For Liberty Greece
The largest gathering of pro-liberty students and supporters in Greece successfully concluded at the 2013 Restart Balkans Conference in Komotene, Thrace, on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 November 2013. The venue proved to be very small for our huge audience and as a result more than 60 participants were registered only for the second day, since there was no available room on the first day, either for seated or standing attendees. With over 340 attendees on the first day and more than 250 the second Students for Liberty – Greece and especially the local branch, “Youth Business Network”, organized a weekend of liberty with exciting lectures, breakouts, entrepreneurship sessions, a student debate, a liberty wall and plenty of socials. This ended up becoming the biggest libertarian conference in Greece, and was an important tool in helping continue to spread the message of liberty in the region.
Masaryk University Students For Liberty (Czech Republic) – Group of the Year
The group’s mission is to spread and communicate the ideas of liberty as well as get students involved in ESFL. They organized lectures throughout the year without any support, and despite an effort to make everything as low cost as possible they had couple of successful events not only in Brno, but in Prague too. Additionally, they have redistributed dozens of SFL’s books and recently started to translating “Why Liberty” into Czech as well as Slovak. They created their own website to publish articles about libertarianism as well as short political comments from other students. They’ve organized “Liberty Evenings” — informal meetings of students interested in ideas of liberty aimed on a certain topic, throughout the Fall semester. All Liberty Evenings have had an average attendance of 25 students. They will be organizing a trip to ESFLC 2014 in Berlin, as more than 20 students from Brno have signed up so far and two of their leaders are making the trip to ISFLC.
Isack Danford – Student of the Year
University of Dodoma — Tanzania
Isack is an SFL Charter Team Member and leader of Tanzanian Students For Liberty and a student at Dodoma University. He managed to bring more than 1,100 students from Kenya and Tanzania to the SFL global network during outreach he conducted in the spring and fall periods. He also organized 11 events both in and outside university campuses, including 3 seminars in Kenya, 4 seminars in Tanzania, 8 tabling events, and a leadership forum. He has added a lot of value to East African SFL in terms of number of students reached, groups formed on campuses, and events held both on and off these campuses.