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TheCenter for European Renewal (CER) is apan-Europeanconservative organization based inAmsterdam, theNetherlands. The CER was founded in the summer of 2007 by a group of mainly European conservatives. They included Dutch ethicist and legal philosopherAndreas Kinneging, the (late) German political thinkerCaspar von Schrenck-Notzing, Czech think-tank directorRoman Joch, Spanish publishing executiveJorge Soley Climent, Flemish law professorMatthias Storme, andAlexandre Pesey ofL'Institut de formation politique (IFP).
Following an exploratory meeting in the spring of 2006, the CER has held annual summer meetings—inVienna (2007),Madrid (2008),Budapest (2009),Kraków (2010),Leuven (2011),Cirencester (2012),Prague (2013),Warsaw (2014),Dubrovnik (2015),Cirencester (2016),Berlin (2017), andRiga (2018). Speakers at these meetings have includedRoger Scruton,Ryszard Legutko,Chantal Delsol,David Gress,Rémi Brague,Anthony Daniels,Agnieszka Kołakowska,Gabriele Kuby, andDouglas Murray, as well as other young scholars, policy analysts, journalists, and political activists.
The CER aims to become a European network of thinkers, writers, scholars, etc., along the lines of the U.S.-basedPhiladelphia Society. Inspired by theIntercollegiate Studies Institute, it also hopes to eventually offer educational programs. To date, the CER has published one collection of essays,Plato on Wall Street, in collaboration with theOśrodek Myśli Politycznej (Centre for Political Thought). Some members of the CER also produce a quarterly magazine entitledThe European Conservative.
'Educating for Liberty in Old Europe'[dead link],The Canon, the Intercollegiate Studies's member and alumni magazine, Fall 2007, pp. 24–29.