Alma Mater Europaea University Explained

Alma Mater Europaea - European Center, Maribor
Type:University
Foundation:2007
Founder:Evropska administrativna akademija (European Administrative Academy)
Location Country:Slovenia
Area Served:Slovenia & International
Key People:Ludvik Toplak (president)
Industry:University

Alma Mater Europaea University (previously Alma Mater Europaea ECM) is an accredited non-profit research university in Slovenia.[1] It is part of an international university Alma Mater Europaea of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, which unites about 2000 leading scholars, 37 of which are Nobel Prize laureates.[2] [3] Alma Mater Europaea University offers 25 doctoral, masters, and bachelor degree studies in Humanities, Social Gerontology, Ecology, Business, Web and Information technologies, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Sustainable Development, European studies, Project Management as well as Social Studies, Healthcare, Nursing, and Physical therapy.[4] Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, the oldest Slovenian private higher education institution, joined Alma Mater in 2014. Since 2015, a Dance Academy, the only Slovenian accredited institution offering diplomas ballet and dance studies, is part of the Alma Mater.

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.[5] [6] [7] Alma Mater faculty has participated at the leading universities' events including those of Harvard, Columbia, UCLA, and Yale.[8] [9] [10] Their expert opinion appeared in leading media such as The Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Financial Times.[11] [12] [13] [14]

The Alma Mater Europaea University has campuses in Slovenia, Italy, Austria and Croatia.[15]

Felix Unger, the then-president of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, proposed the transnational European university with the Academy's members serving as faculty, and coined the name Alma Mater Europaea. Ludvik Toplak has developed the Alma Mater Europaea ECM and has served as its president since its inception. Between 2016 and 2022, Jurij Toplak served as the provost/executive vice president.

History

Origins and early years

In 2007 European Academy of Sciences and Arts Salzburg (EASA) established Alma Mater Europaea as an academic institution that provides an organizational frame and contents for cultural and professional renewal of the Danube region. AMEU - ECM is part of Alma Mater Europaea as an academic and research institution, a network of over 250 academic teachers and over 40 academic institutions from 12 countries in the Danube region, also connecting 1400 excellent researchers, several Nobel prize recipients.

In 2011, EASA gave an institutional patronage to the European Centre Maribor, including it into the newly established university network Alma Mater Europaea, established particularly for the Danube region. A new project was placed in hands of AMEU - ECM under this patronage; namely organization of the Regional Interactive Educational Network (RIEN).

Until 2024, it operated under the name was Alma Mater Europaea, European Centre Maribor (ECM). In 2011 students started studying management and social gerontology. Alma Mater Europaea started offering environmental studies and European studies in 2012 and archival science in 2013.

In March 2013 the first group of 50 students graduated. The president of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts prof. ddr. Felix Unger gave the opening speech.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: STA: Alma Mater Europaea - ECM postala univerza . 2024-03-25 . www.sta.si.
  2. Web site: European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Nobel Prize Laureates. https://web.archive.org/web/20180612163228/https://www.euro-acad.eu/members/nobel-prize-winners/. 2018-06-12. dead.
  3. Web site: Introduction & History European Academy of Sciences and Arts . 2022-06-23 . euro-acad.eu . en.
  4. Web site: STA: Alma Mater Europaea in Maribor becomes university . 2024-06-07 . english.sta.si.
  5. Web site: 2020-10-17. Iz Maribora vodili okroglo mizo univerze Yale. 2020-10-17. maribor24.si. sl-SI.
  6. Web site: Vsak dan prvi - 24ur.com. 2020-10-17. www.24ur.com.
  7. Web site: Tuji strokovnjaki: Sporočilo o novinarkah prostitutkah in Kučanu zvodniku ni kaznivo #video. 2020-10-17. siol.net. sl.
  8. 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.
  9. Web site: Professor Jurij Toplak at the Yale University roundtable. 2020-10-17. en.almamater.si. en.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Web site: May 11, 2020. Push for mail-in vote gaining steam, and scrutiny - The Boston Globe. 2020-10-17. BostonGlobe.com.
  14. Web site: Volitve po pošti, če bi jih Šarec dosegel, ne bi bile poštene. 2020-10-17. siol.net. sl.
  15. Web site: Locations . 2024-06-07 . en.almamater.si . en.