Alma Mater Europaea Explained

Alma Mater Europaea
Native Name:University
Latin Name:Alma Mater Europaea
Motto:European University for Leadership
Established:2010
Students:2150
Undergrad:1480
Postgrad:540
Doctoral:130
Country:Austria
Other Names:Alma Mater, AlmaMater, Almamater
Faculty:380
Colors: Blue, yellow
Affiliations:European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Alma Mater Europaea is an international university based in Salzburg, Austria, and Slovenia,[1] with campuses in several European cities.[2]

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.[3] [4] [5] Alma Mater faculty has participated at the leading universities' events including those of Harvard, Columbia, UCLA, and Yale.[6] [7] [8] Their expert opinion appeared in leading media such as The Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Financial Times.[9] [10] [11] [12]

History

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.[13] [14] [15]

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.[16] 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.[17] At the meeting it was decided that in the first stage, Alma Mater Europaea would start three 2-year master's degree programs.[18] 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.[19]

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.[20] 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.

In March 2024, Alma Mater Europaea obtained accreditation as a university in Slovenia. It holds an institutional university accreditation, and all of its programs are accredited by the Slovenian Higher Education Agency (Nakvis).

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.

Alma Mater Europaea, campus Vienna

In May 2024, Alma Mater opened its campus in Austria.[21] [22] Under the name Alma Mater Europaea, campus Vienna, shorter Alma Mater Vienna, it started Bachelor studies in Physiotherapy and nursing, and PhD in Artificial Intelligence. It announced campuses in Vienna, Klagenfurt and Salzburg.[23] Dr. Maximilian-Niklas Bonk is the Academic Dean of the Wien campus.

Programmes

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.[25] 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.[26] [27] [28] [29]

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,[30] [31] [32] and in 2023, by president Nataša Pirc Musar.[33] The European Commission vice presidents Maroš Šefčovič and Dubravka Šuica[34] and the European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel[35] have addressed the conference. The eleventh conference, held in 2023, featured over 300 presenters from 30 countries in 80 panels.[36]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: STA: Alma Mater Europaea - ECM postala univerza . 2024-03-25 . www.sta.si.
  2. Web site: Alma Mater Europaea Alliance .
  3. Web site: 2020-10-17. Iz Maribora vodili okroglo mizo univerze Yale. 2020-10-17. maribor24.si. sl-SI.
  4. Web site: Vsak dan prvi - 24ur.com. 2020-10-17. www.24ur.com.
  5. Web site: Tuji strokovnjaki: Sporočilo o novinarkah prostitutkah in Kučanu zvodniku ni kaznivo #video. 2020-10-17. siol.net. sl.
  6. Web site: Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard Professors at the Alma Mater Europaea Symposium. 2020-10-17. www.sloveniatimes.com. 2020-11-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20201116205026/http://www.sloveniatimes.com/oxford-cambridge-and-harvard-professors-at-the-alma-mater-europaea-symposium. dead.
  7. Web site: Professor Jurij Toplak at the Yale University roundtable. 2020-10-17. en.almamater.si. en.
  8. Winkler. Adam. 2010-12-01. Introduction to Lowenstein Festschrift. Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy. 9. 4. 261–262. 10.1089/elj.2010.9402. 1533-1296.
  9. News: Ronay. Barney. 2020-03-05. Michel Platini's appeal over ban rejected by European court of human rights. en-GB. The Guardian. 2020-10-17. 0261-3077.
  10. Web site: Toplak. Jurij. 2020-09-07. Voting is every EU citizen's right, regardless of disability. 2020-10-17. www.euractiv.com. en-GB.
  11. Web site: May 11, 2020. Push for mail-in vote gaining steam, and scrutiny - The Boston Globe. 2020-10-17. BostonGlobe.com.
  12. Web site: Volitve po pošti, če bi jih Šarec dosegel, ne bi bile poštene. 2020-10-17. siol.net. sl.
  13. http://www.ameu.eu/ Alma Mater Europaea
  14. http://www.euro-acad.eu EuroAcad
  15. http://www.euro-acad.eu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Alma+Mater EuroAcad
  16. http://www.euro-acad.eu/downloads/events/ALMA%20MATER%20EUROPAEA%20f.pdf Alma Mater Europaea Board meeting, Munich, Germany, 18 February 2011
  17. http://www.euro-acad.eu/downloads/events/ALMA%20MATER%20EUROPAEA%20f.pdf Alma Mater Europaea Board meeting, Munich, Germany, 18 February 2011
  18. http://www.euro-acad.eu/downloads/events/ALMA%20MATER%20EUROPAEA%20f.pdf Alma Mater Europaea Board meeting, Munich, Germany, 18 February 2011
  19. http://www.euro-acad.eu/downloads/events/ALMA%20MATER%20EUROPAEA%20f.pdf Alma Mater Europaea Board meeting, Munich, Germany, 18 February 2011
  20. http://www.euro-acad.eu/downloads/events/Summer%20School%202011b.pdf Summer School Human Change Processes, St. Gallen, Switzerland
  21. Web site: 2024-05-23 . Neue Universität in Wien: Alma Mater Europaea eröffnet neuen Universitätsstandort in Wien . 2024-06-07 . MeinBezirk.at . de.
  22. Web site: Alma Mater Europaea Österreich: Wien, Klagenfurt, Salzburg . 2024-05-11 . at.almamater.si . en.
  23. Web site: Bachelor Studium Physiotherapie . 2024-05-11 . Alma Mater Europaea . en-US.
  24. http://www.euro-acad.eu/downloads/events/ALMA%20MATER%20EUROPAEA%20f.pdf Alma Mater Europaea Board meeting, Munich, Germany, 18 February 2011
  25. Web site: Famed economist Jeffrey Sachs rails against Bitcoin: Highly polluting and ‘almost like counterfeiting’ . 2023-03-14 . Fortune . en.
  26. Web site: W3bStudio . 2022-03-14 . The Alma Mater's 'It's About People' conference has started . 2023-03-14 . Slovenia Times . en-US.
  27. Web site: 2023-03-09 . Tik pred vrati je 11. mednarodna znanstvena konferenca Za človeka gre 2023 . 2023-03-14 . Lokalec.si . sl-SI.
  28. Web site: Holocaust Justice: The roundtable on current trends and dangers in how countries deal with WW2 and post-WW2 convictions . 2023-03-14 . Conference It's About People 2023 . sl-SI.
  29. Web site: Vsak dan prvi - 24ur.com . 2023-03-14 . www.24ur.com.
  30. Web site: 2018-03-09 . Na konferenci ECM o izzivih za znanost in izobraževanje . 2023-03-14 . krog.sta.si . sl.
  31. Web site: Digitalna preobrazba je nujnost, a ne pozabiti na človečnost . 2023-03-14 . vecer.com . sl.
  32. Web site: Mednarodna znanstvena konferenca »Za človeka gre« letos že desetič . 2023-03-14 . Revija Reporter . sl.
  33. Web site: STA: Conference urges putting technology into service of security and dignity . 2023-03-14 . english.sta.si.
  34. Web site: Dekanja z Oxforda: Kitajci so dokaj rasistični, menijo, da belopolti ne delajo dovolj #video . 2023-03-14 . siol.net . sl.
  35. Web site: “Pandemija je razgalila tudi pomanjkljivosti digitalnega učnega procesa" . 2023-03-14 . rtvslo.si . sl.
  36. Web site: STA: Conference urges putting technology into service of security and dignity . 2023-03-14 . english.sta.si.