"Pro Bono Publico"

As institutional entrepreneurs, we firmly believe the most effective solutions to current problems in the Venices* are drawn from those same values and principles - free enterprise, institutional integrity, limited government and individual liberty - which motivated with extreme success our Venetian Forefathers.

The Venezie Institute was founded in 2005 and is based in London (U.K.). Its mission is to assess the institutional, social and economic issues currently facing the Venices* and to generate solutions based on the traditional Venetian principles of free enterprise, institutional integrity, limited government and individual liberty. Every single issue is approached from an international point of view, and proposed solutions are based on in-depth research and analysis of successful foreign settings.

As part of its activities, the Venezie Institute publishes books, research papers, and short studies, prepared by its own experts or in collaboration with renowned foreign experts. With the aim of creating a lasting desire for reform, the Institute then actively promotes these publications by means of public debates, conferences, and mass- media appearances, and by direct mailing to journalists, academics, politicians, business people and the general public, in Venetia*.

Active participation in the consultation process or in political campaigns is not how the Venezie Institute operates; nor does it take a stand for or against any political party. On the contrary, the Institute is completely independent of any political party, religious or economic interest group. This independence is ensured, on one hand, by a conscious diversification in its base of financial support and, on the other hand, by the integrity of the members of its Board of Directors and its Advisory Council.

The Venezie Institute has developed its own website!

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(*) For the purpose of the Institute's work, the words "Venices", "Venetia" and "Northeast Italy" are interchangeable, and are taken as meaning the historical Venices within Northern Italy - i.e. the current italian regions of Venezia Tridentina-Sud Tirol/Alto Adige, Venezia Euganea, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the current provinces of Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona (i.e. Venezia Orobica), and Mantua.