Sekyra Foundation  The Sekyra Foundation is a private foundation created in 2018 by Czech entrepreneur Luděk Sekyra in support of moral universalism, liberal values, and civil society. The foundation receives funds for its activity from gifts by individuals and corporations, asset management, and business activity. The foundation is focused on support for civil society, the development of critical and philosophical thought, support for academic institutions and educational projects, sustainable development and protection of the environment, lectures, and publishing the works of important thinkers. Another mission of the foundation is the defense of political freedom, human rights, and cultural and religious diversity. In collaboration with leading universities around the world and Europaeum, the foundation is cultivating the legacy of key philosophers of the 20th century like John Rawls and Ludwig Wittgenstein, as well as intellectuals associated with Central and Eastern Europe, such as Isaiah Berlin, Leszek Kołakowski, Jan Patočka, and Karl Popper. The Sekyra Foundation offers month-long stays at the University of Oxford for students at Charles University in Prague and reciprocal stays for English students in Prague. The renovated building of "Sekyra House", part of Oxford’s Harris Manchester College, had its opening ceremony on November 6, 2014, to commemorate the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution and contains student housing as well as three study halls. Also in the building is a lecture hall named for Tomáš Halík. Luděk Sekyra is a member of the board of Harris Manchester College and one of its Foundation Fellows, as well as a member of Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor’s Circle and the Aristotelian Society in London. The Sekyra Foundation has supported several projects for the development of philosophical and intellectual dialogue, including “Jan Patočka and the Grounds for Political Action: Phenomenology, the Arts, and Civil Society”, a conference organized by The Rimbaud and Verlaine Foundation (2019); “Culture and Value after Wittgenstein”, a conference held at The Queen's College, Oxford (2019); “Inequality, Religion, and Society: John Rawls and After”, a conference dedicated to the philosophical legacy of the most significant political philosopher of the 20th century, John Rawls, which took place in early 2019 at Harvard University;  “Two Visions of Europe: What Sources of Hope for the Future?”, an international conference and seminar in the Cracking Borders, Rising Walls Series organized by Kultura Liberalna in Warsaw; the annual Central European Forum in Bratislava, a discussion conference founded by Václav Havel; a conference on "Trust and Understanding" organized by the Broumov Monastery; and “Margaret Thatcher in historical perspective”, a lecture organized by the Centre for Political Philosophy, Ethics and Religion at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague.