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ForFreeChoice Institute - Think tank
The ForFreeChoice Institute is a Rome-based think tank that operates mainly in Spain, Italy, and the United States. The think tank was founded in 2016 by Pietro Paganini, an Italian advocate for classical liberalism and the scientific method.

The ForFreeChoice Institute is a platform that defends individuals’ freedom of choice and responsibility, based on critical thought. It also promotes scientific information and the scientific method as fundamental tools in raising awareness and leading public debates. The ForFreeChoice Institute’s aim is to foster individual freedom and socio-economic prosperity. The institute believes that through awareness, a focus on facts, and the scientific method, citizens are able to make free and informed choices that improve the condition of individuals, coexistence, and physical and psychological well-being.

Activities
The ForFreeChoice Institute is committed to elaborate ideas, cultural initiatives, political proposals and alliances in the institutions, addressing the problems of contemporary society with concrete projects.

With these purposes, the ForFreeChoice Institute supports the regulatory and legislative activities of public and private organizations, stakeholders and elected officials by providing them with data, facts, scientific information, and researches.

Blog:

 * http://www.forfreechoice.org/blog/

Palm Oil Studies:

 * Edition 3: Free-from Palm Oil, but more saturates and less sustainable  (June 11, 2019)
 * Edition 2: Palm oil free, with more saturated fats (October 10, 2017)
 * Edition 1: New study confirms palm oil is not harmful   (September 11, 2017)

Social Media:

 * Twitter: @CampagneLib
 * Facebook: @CampagneLiberali
 * Linkedin: For Free Choice Institute

Freedom of Choice
The ForFreeChoice Institute favors the free choice approach. They support the individual responsibility of citizens, and the role of the state as an informant to citizens and a tool to create conditions where consumers make choices in complete awareness. The think tank aims to raise awareness about certain restrictions, caused by the excessive interventionism of the state and international institutions, such as the WHO, and their detriment to individual freedom of choice.

The think tank is against all forms of intolerance and protectionism. They believe that the interests of all parties should be protected transparently, especially with regard to the making of decisions that affect the individual sphere of the citizen. Their view is that the state must exert the least possible interference in citizens life and the choices of each person in order to protect freedom, a fundamental principle of civil society.

Science vs. Fake News
Scientific knowledge of the facts has led over the centuries to the birth of the information society. Today, this society does not always count on the facts or the results of science but is increasingly guiding the choices of citizens with the prejudices and the emotions. As such, this time has been called the post-truth era, in reference to the detachment from the real facts.

The think tank believes that this increasing prevalence for citizens to be conditioned through bias and impressionability could limit our freedoms and reduce society’s welfare and wellbeing. They go further in saying that this is even more important today given how citizens have an increasing influence on the shape of society. To them, a greater role by citizens to participate in sovereignty is not a concern, to the contrary, this is an outstanding achievement. Likewise, social media is not to blame. The various platforms continue to be extraordinary means that help foster and spreading knowledge more than fake stories. Instead, they believe people should be alarmed by citizens growing blind belief in what they are told. Increasingly so, it is sufficient that the source of information matches a citizens personal vision of the world for them to read information as true. History tells us that closing one’s mind to the reality around us damages our capacity to successfully live together in diversity and risks the regression of freedom and prosperity.

The ForFreeChoice Institute believes that to stop this, governments should adopt, from primary school upwards, education programs implementing scientific experimentation and epistemology, embracing the scientific approach for the analysis of the content instead of pointing to their simple assimilation. Furthermore, they believe schools should stimulate a critical debate around facts, the falsification of hypothesis, and the promotion of educational programs aimed to spread the experimental method. Educators and teachers should favor critical thinking in order to encourage their students to challenge with doubt what they are presented with. The media and internet content providers should promote fact-checking and should encourage discussions around critical thinking. Internet users and debaters should share their assumptions after they have checked and objectified what they have read and heard. Finally, they believe that we must all work together to foster a thoughtful debate that favors healthy conflict amongst ideas and supports knowledge, as ultimately this would improve our ability as a diverse society, to live together with greater freedom and prosperity.

Afilliations

 * Property Rights Alliance
 * Scuola di Liberalismo

Board Of Directors

 * Mario Lupo
 * Pietro Paganini
 * Raffaello Morelli
 * Giammarco Brenelli
 * Enrico Morbelli
 * Saro Freni
 * Lorenzo Castellani
 * Giacomo Bandini

Pietro Paganini
Pietro Paganini was born in March 1975, in Legnano, Milan. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Complex Organizations and a Master in Multimedia and a Degree in Business Communication. He is a classical Liberal and a Montessori.

Work
Paganini is an Adjunct Professor in Business Administration at the Fox School of Business at Temple University in Philadelphia and at John Cabot University in Rome, where he teaches management and innovation management.

He is the founder and Curiosity Officer of Competere - Policies for Sustainable Development - a platform of professionals that produces analysis and research to innovate production processes and improve the quality of life and the environment in which we live.

He is also the founder and Director of the ForFreeChoice institute in Rome, Italy, a think tank specializing in a free-market economy.

He is on the Board of Advisors of Envent SpA. He founded the European Privacy Association and he was a member of the Italian board of BAIA - Business Association Italy-America.

Past
In the past, Pietro Paganini has taught at the University of Karlstad (Sweden), where he was Researcher & Visiting Lecturer. He was also a researcher at the LUMSA in Rome.

He was the Director-General of the Luigi Einaudi Foundation - a non-profit organization - for Studies in Politics, Economics, and History. He founded the Italian Institute for Privacy and Data Enhancement, of which he is Secretary-General.

From 2004 to 2008 he was Vice President of European Liberal Youth (youth of ALDE).

Publishments

 * Paganini non Ripete Vol. I (2018) and Vol. II (2019)
 * Trainarsi per il Futuro (2015)
 * NextPrivacy (2009)
 * Innovation:  from Theories to the Territory (2006).

Media
He is a columnist for La Stampa and has published for several national and international newspapers including the WSJ, the Corriere Della Sera, and the Sole 24 Ore.

He regularly participates, as an expert, in radio and TV broadcasts on national and international channels.

Social Media

 * Facebook: Pietro Paganini
 * Youtube: Pietro Paganini
 * Twitter: PietroPaganini
 * Instagram: Pietro.Paganini

Competere
Competere is a Rome based think tank with offices in Rome, Milan, and Brussels. The organization focuses on public policies that spur innovation, new technologies and human development.

Competere aims to understand the present in order to imagine and design a smarter future by developing policies and business models that foster innovation. By enhancing the public debate on what will be relevant issues they aim to promote prosperity, increasing freedoms and improving the coexistence of citizens. They rely on science and the experimental method to produce facts and pursue evidence that supports smart and sustainable solutions for an open society. Competere is a community of curious, creative and entrepreneurial citizens. Their network of diverse researchers, thinkers, advocates, and activists share the common goal of building a more prosperous future by supporting critical thinking, in an age of prejudices, biases and returning ideologies. Competere formulates ideas to improve lives, producing and promoting policies and business models to foster innovation and develop better human technology design interaction. They are a place where citizens come together to think, brainstorm, discuss, research and advocate for a smarter world.

Activities
At Competere they strive to give citizens the opportunity to develop freedom and prosperity. They ask themselves: What is happening and what are the answers to the current economic and social transformations? In order to develop methodological frameworks that allow them to understand the phenomena and produces effective responses and improve the coexistence of citizens. Competere offers analysis and moments of discussion among experts whose goal is to create an ecosystem that fosters innovation and free enterprise.

Blog:

 * http://www.competere.eu/

Social Media:

 * Twitter: https://twitter.com/competereEU
 * Facebook: @competere
 * Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/10411781/admin/

SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Competere’s method of examining problems follows the scientific method. They recognize the problem, observe the phenomena, and interpret it for developing effective measurable solutions and alternatives. They believe that through the use of the scientific process they can promote further understanding of difficult topics, and produce the most effective and efficient modes of finding solutions to problems.

INNOVATION
Competere seeks original solutions in order to put their partners in a position able to anticipate the competition, astonish the market and above all determine the changes. Through innovation, Competere believes that they will be able to put their partners in the most useful positions to improve and change markets, as well as create the crucial balance between human needs and the environment.

Alliances

 * Italian Institute For Privacy
 * GTIPA - Global Trade & Innovation Policy Alliance
 * Property Rights Alliance

Partners

 * Envent Capital Markets
 * ICT Legal Consulting
 * R&P Legal
 * Raise The Wind
 * Brenelli Law Firm
 * Yourcfo

Governance
Pietro Paganini

Roberto Race

Giacomo Bandini

Board Of Advisors
Mario Lupo

Luca Bolognini

Giammarco Brenelli

Franco Gaudenti

Andrea Pietrini

Riccardo Rossotto

= See Also = Competere (Home Page)

Pietro Paganini (Wiki Page)