Alma Mater Europaea

Alma Mater Europaea (Latin for "The European nourishing mother", i.e. university) is an international university based in the Austrian city of Salzburg, with campuses in several European cities. It was founded as an initiative by the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a learned society of around 2100 prominent scientists, including 33 Nobel laureates.[1]

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
260
Students1300
Undergraduates900
Postgraduates300
100
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

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 professor Jacob Rowbottom, German political scientist Werner Weidenfeld, who is also 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, the Slovenian Constitutional Court judge Klemen Jaklic, who had lectured at Harvard for seven years before joining Alma Mater, 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, UCLA, and Yale.[5][6][7] Their expert opinion appeared in leading media such as The Guardian, The Boston Globe, and Euractiv.[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, Alma Mater Europaea was officially established, with leading Austrian surgeon Felix Unger being appointed as its first president, while the German political scientist Werner Weidenfeld became the first rector, and the Slovenian lawyer, university administrator and diplomat Ludvik Toplak the first prorector.

At a meeting in Munich in February 2011, under the patronage of the presidents of 12 member states of the European Union, the board determined which courses the university would provide. These were to be taught in various cities across the union, in several 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. It was 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, located in the Slovenian city of Maribor. This campus enrolled about 500 students in 2011. In July 2011 the university also co-sponsored a summer school in St. Gallen, Switzerland.[19] In the academic year 2012–2013, about 800 students were enrolled in Maribor, the campus in Croatian capital Zagreb was opened, and part of the master's degree studies were carried out in Brussels. In 2013, the Salzburg campus of Alma Mater Europaea was founded and about 1000 students were enrolled in various studies in Austria, Slovenia, and other countries in academic year 2013/14. In 2014, two higher education institutions joined Alma Mater Europaea. The first one is Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (ISH), internationally renown graduate school of philosophy, with which Slavoj Žižek and numerous other world's leading philosophers had been affiliated. ISH was established in 1992. 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. Also in 2014 the studies in Zurich started and in 2015 the Zürich campus was officially established. 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
  • Alma Mater Europaea headquarters at Sankt Peter Bezirk in Salzburg, Austria
    Alma Mater Europaea headquarters at Sankt Peter Bezirk in Salzburg, Austria
  • The campus of Alma Mater Europaea – Evropski center, Maribor in Slovenia. Behind it is the old city hall of Maribor.
    The campus of Alma Mater Europaea – Evropski center, Maribor in Slovenia. Behind it is the old city hall of Maribor.
  • Old Meeting Room at the Alma Mater premises in Maribor
    Old Meeting Room at the Alma Mater premises in Maribor

Currently, the university has premises in Salzburg, Ljubljana, Maribor, and Murska Sobota. While administration and offices are mainly in Salzburg and Maribor, lecturing takes place mainly in Ljubljana and Murska Sobota. Lecturing in Salzburg, as well as some other European cities, will start 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
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  2. "Iz Maribora vodili okroglo mizo univerze Yale". maribor24.si (in Slovenian). 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
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  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.
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  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.
  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.
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  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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