Alma Mater Europaea
University
Latin: Alma Mater Europaea
Other names
Alma Mater, AlmaMater, Almamater
MottoEuropean University for Leadership
Established2010
PresidentFelix Unger
RectorWerner Weidenfeld
Academic staff
380
Students2150
Undergraduates1480
Postgraduates540
130
Location
Salzburg
,
Austria
Campuscampuses in Switzerland, Germany, Slovenia, Italy, Kosovo, Croatia
Colors   Blue, yellow
AffiliationsEuropean Academy of Sciences and Arts
Websitewww.almamater.eu www.almamater.si www.ameu-eca.eu www.almamater.hr

Alma Mater Europaea (Latin for "The European nourishing mother", i.e. university) is an international university based in Salzburg, Austria, with campuses in several European cities.[1]

Among the leading scholars, who teach or have given guest lectures at Alma Mater or its events, are Harvard Law School professor Mark Tushnet, Oxford professors Martin Kemp, Mindy Chen-Wishart, Jacob Rowbottom and Jeremy Howick, Yale professor Fred Volkmer German political scientist Werner Weidenfeld, who was the rector of Alma Mater, the Alma Mater president and cardiac surgeon Felix Unger, the Facebook and Instagram Oversight Board member and former European Court of Human Rights vice-president Andras Sajo, David Erdos of Cambridge, and philosophers Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Srećko Horvat.[2][3][4] Alma Mater faculty has participated at the leading universities' events including those of Harvard, Columbia, UCLA, and Yale.[5][6][7] Their expert opinion appeared in leading media such as The Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Financial Times.[8][9][10][11]

History

Representatives of the academy meeting in Munich in 2011 to plan the activities of Alma Mater Europaea

Since the early 2000s, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts has been planning the establishment of the university, occasionally with the subtitle of European University for Leadership.[12][13][14]

In 2010, the European Academy officially established the Alma Mater Europaea, with leading Austrian surgeon and European Academy president Felix Unger appointed as the international university's first president, the German political scientist Werner Weidenfeld becoming the first rector, and the Slovenian lawyer, former rector and diplomat Ludvik Toplak the first prorector.

At a meeting in Munich in February 2011, under the patronage of the presidents of 12 European Union member states, the European Academy board determined that numerous courses would be taught at several European universities in different languages, including English, German, and Spanish.[15] In line with the international nature of the university, students, teachers, and prominent European thinkers would meet at an international symposium at the graduation. They also decided that Alma Mater Europaea would be incorporated in European and international networks of universities through cooperation agreements.[16] At the meeting it was decided that in the first stage, Alma Mater Europaea would start three 2-year master's degree programs.[17] The university board stated that Alma Mater Europaea would be based on three so-called "W principles": Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Wirken. In German, this means: Science, Economy, Effect.[18]

The 2013 graduation ceremony at the campus in Maribor

In 2011, the university opened in Slovenia its first campus in Maribor, Slovenia. This campus enrolled about 500 students in 2011. In July 2011 the university co-sponsored a summer school in St. Gallen, Switzerland.[19] In 2012, about 800 students were enrolled, the campus in Zagreb, Croatia, opened, and the master's degree studies were partially carried out in Brussels. In 2013, the Salzburg campus of Alma Mater Europaea was established and about 1000 students studied in doctoral, masters, and undergrad programs in Austria, Slovenia, and other countries. In 2014, two higher education institutions joined Alma Mater Europaea. One is Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (ISH), internationally renown graduate school of philosophy, established in 1992, with which Slavoj Žižek and numerous other world's leading philosophers had been affiliated. The other one is the Dance Academy, established in 2008. It is one of the few European institutions issuing government accredited degrees in dance arts. In 2014, studies in Switzerland and Italy started. Ludvik Toplak has served as the president since the university's inception in Slovenia, and Jurij Toplak served as its provost between 2016 and 2022.

Locations and departments

The university has premises in Salzburg, Ljubljana, Maribor, Capodistria, Murska Sobota and Toscana, Italy. While administration and offices are mainly in Salzburg and Maribor, lecturing takes place mainly in Ljubljana, Capodistria and Murska Sobota. Lecturing in Salzburg and some other European cities started in 2014.

  • Department of Physical Therapy
  • Department of Nursing
  • Department of Social Gerontology
  • Department of Management and European Studies
  • Department of Archival and Documentology Studies

Programmes

  • European leadership program, producing future European thinkers; the studies focus in European leadership, culture, political sciences, law, and human rights.
  • European business studies, producing future European business leaders; This European MBA program would focus on political leadership and strategies, European identity and political culture, transformation and development of Europe, social reforms, sustainable development, globalization.
  • Theological studies, which would be studied at the newly set-up European Dialogue Center for Theological Studies. A network of dialogue between Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Islam would be formed with a focus on question "What do the others think differently?" [20]

It's About People conference

It's About People is an annual week-long multidisciplinary conference organized by the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Alma Mater Europaea university.[21] It regularly hosts leaders of national academies of sciences, university rectors, political leaders including EU commissioners, judges of the European Court of Human Rights and highest national courts, and scholars from prominent universities including Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia.[22][23][24][25]

The president of Slovenia has traditionally bestowed the honorary patronage over the event. The conference was opened by the former president Borut Pahor between 2018 and 2022,[26][27][28] and in 2023, by president Nataša Pirc Musar.[29] The European Commission vice presidents Maroš Šefčovič and Dubravka Šuica[30] and the European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel[31] have addressed the conference. The eleventh conference, held in 2023, featured over 300 presenters from 30 countries in 80 panels.[32]

See also

Citations

  1. ↑ "Alma Mater Europaea Alliance".
  2. ↑ "Iz Maribora vodili okroglo mizo univerze Yale". maribor24.si (in Slovenian). 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  3. ↑ "Vsak dan prvi - 24ur.com". www.24ur.com. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  4. ↑ "Tuji strokovnjaki: Sporočilo o novinarkah prostitutkah in Kučanu zvodniku ni kaznivo #video". siol.net (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  5. ↑ "Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard Professors at the Alma Mater Europaea Symposium". www.sloveniatimes.com. Archived from the original on 2020-11-16. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  6. ↑ "Professor Jurij Toplak at the Yale University roundtable". en.almamater.si. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  7. ↑ Winkler, Adam (2010-12-01). "Introduction to Lowenstein Festschrift". Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy. 9 (4): 261–262. doi:10.1089/elj.2010.9402. ISSN 1533-1296.
  8. ↑ Ronay, Barney (2020-03-05). "Michel Platini's appeal over ban rejected by European court of human rights". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  9. ↑ Toplak, Jurij (2020-09-07). "Voting is every EU citizen's right, regardless of disability". www.euractiv.com. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  10. ↑ "Push for mail-in vote gaining steam, and scrutiny - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. May 11, 2020. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  11. ↑ "Volitve po pošti, če bi jih Šarec dosegel, ne bi bile poštene". siol.net (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  12. ↑ Alma Mater Europaea Archived 2013-07-26 at the Wayback Machine der Europäischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste
  13. ↑ EuroAcad → Organisation → Institutes → Alma Mater Europaea
  14. ↑ EuroAcad Archived 2013-01-06 at archive.today → Search → Alma+Mater
  15. ↑ Alma Mater Europaea Board meeting, Munich, Germany, 18 February 2011 Archived 4 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ↑ Alma Mater Europaea Board meeting, Munich, Germany, 18 February 2011 Archived 4 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ↑ Alma Mater Europaea Board meeting, Munich, Germany, 18 February 2011 Archived 4 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  18. ↑ Alma Mater Europaea Board meeting, Munich, Germany, 18 February 2011 Archived 4 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  19. ↑ Summer School Human Change Processes, St. Gallen, Switzerland Archived 2012-04-03 at the Wayback Machine
  20. ↑ Alma Mater Europaea Board meeting, Munich, Germany, 18 February 2011 Archived 4 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  21. ↑ "Famed economist Jeffrey Sachs rails against Bitcoin: Highly polluting and 'almost like counterfeiting'". Fortune. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  22. ↑ W3bStudio (2022-03-14). "The Alma Mater's 'It's About People' conference has started". Slovenia Times. Retrieved 2023-03-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  23. ↑ "Tik pred vrati je 11. mednarodna znanstvena konferenca Za človeka gre 2023". Lokalec.si (in Slovenian). 2023-03-09. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  24. ↑ "Holocaust Justice: The roundtable on current trends and dangers in how countries deal with WW2 and post-WW2 convictions". Conference It's About People 2023 (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  25. ↑ "Vsak dan prvi - 24ur.com". www.24ur.com. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  26. ↑ "Na konferenci ECM o izzivih za znanost in izobraževanje". krog.sta.si (in Slovenian). 2018-03-09. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  27. ↑ "Digitalna preobrazba je nujnost, a ne pozabiti na človečnost". vecer.com (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  28. ↑ "Mednarodna znanstvena konferenca »Za človeka gre« letos že desetič". Revija Reporter (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  29. ↑ "STA: Conference urges putting technology into service of security and dignity". english.sta.si. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  30. ↑ "Dekanja z Oxforda: Kitajci so dokaj rasistični, menijo, da belopolti ne delajo dovolj #video". siol.net (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  31. ↑ ""Pandemija je razgalila tudi pomanjkljivosti digitalnega učnega procesa"". rtvslo.si (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  32. ↑ "STA: Conference urges putting technology into service of security and dignity". english.sta.si. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
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