Alma Mater Europaea

Alma Mater Europaea
Other name
Alma Mater
MottoEuropean University for Leadership
Established2010
AffiliationsEuropean Academy of Sciences and Arts
PresidentFelix Unger
RectorWerner Weidenfeld
Faculty380
Students2150
Undergraduates1480
Postgraduates540
130
Location
Salzburg
,
Austria
Campus
Colors   Blue, yellow
Websitewww.almamater.eu www.almamater.si www.almamater.at

Alma Mater Europaea (AMEU) is an international university network based in Salzburg, Austria, and Alma Mater Europaea University, its major member, is a university in Slovenia,[2] with campuses in several European cities.[3]

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.[4][5][6]

In 2010, the European Academy officially established the Alma Mater Europaea, with 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.[7] In line with the international nature of the university, students, teachers, and 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.[8] At the meeting it was decided that in the first stage, Alma Mater Europaea would start three two-year master's degree programs.[9] 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.[10]

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.[11] 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 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.[2] It holds an institutional university accreditation, and all of its programs are accredited by the Slovenian Higher Education Agency (Nakvis).[2]

Locations and departments

The university has premises in Salzburg, Vienna, 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

Alma Mater Europaea, campus Vienna

In May 2024, Alma Mater opened its campus in Austria.[12][13] Under the name Alma Mater Europaea, campus Vienna, shorter Alma Mater Vienna, it started Bachelor studies in Physiotherapy and PhD in Applied Artificial Intelligence.[14] It announced campuses in Klagenfurt and Salzburg.[15] Dr. Maximilian-Niklas Bonk is the Academic Dean of the Wien campus.[12][16] The campus will offer other bachelor, masters and doctoral degrees.[17][18]

The Alma Mater Europaea University, Vienna, hosts Alma Mater AI Center,[19] and several initiatives and projects including TheConf.org[20] and ifg.at.[21] TheConf.org is an academic conference report platform, and ifg.at is a project on Austrian freedom of information.[22]

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.

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.[23]

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,[24][25][26] and in 2023, by president Nataša Pirc Musar.[27] The European Commission vice presidents Maroš Šefčovič and Dubravka Šuica[28] and the European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel[29] have addressed the conference. The eleventh conference, held in 2023, featured over 300 presenters from 30 countries in 80 panels.[30]

See also

Citations

  1. ↑ "Alma Mater Europaea locations". Alma Mater Europaea. Archived from the original on 7 June 2024. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 "STA: Alma Mater Europaea - ECM postala univerza". www.sta.si. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  3. ↑ "Alma Mater Europaea Alliance".
  4. ↑ Alma Mater Europaea Archived 2013-07-26 at the Wayback Machine der Europäischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste
  5. ↑ EuroAcad Archived 2019-04-02 at the Wayback Machine → Organisation → Institutes → Alma Mater Europaea
  6. ↑ EuroAcad Deprecated link archived 2013-01-06 at archive.today → Search → Alma+Mater
  7. ↑ Alma Mater Europaea Board meeting, Munich, Germany, 18 February 2011 Archived 4 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ Alma Mater Europaea Board meeting, Munich, Germany, 18 February 2011 Archived 4 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ↑ Alma Mater Europaea Board meeting, Munich, Germany, 18 February 2011 Archived 4 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ Alma Mater Europaea Board meeting, Munich, Germany, 18 February 2011 Archived 4 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ Summer School Human Change Processes, St. Gallen, Switzerland Archived 2012-04-03 at the Wayback Machine
  12. 1 2 "Neue Universität in Wien: Alma Mater Europaea eröffnet neuen Universitätsstandort in Wien". MeinBezirk.at (in German). 2024-05-23. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
  13. ↑ "Alma Mater Europaea Österreich: Wien, Klagenfurt, Salzburg". at.almamater.si. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
  14. ↑ Turner, Callum (2025-06-26). "Alma Mater Europaea University on the Quiet Migration: American Brainpower Heads to Europe for Doctoral Education". International Business Times. Retrieved 2025-07-07.
  15. ↑ "Bachelor Studium Physiotherapie". Alma Mater Europaea. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
  16. ↑ "Alma Mater Austria". Alma Mater Europaea University (in German). Archived from the original on 2024-05-11. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
  17. ↑ "Alma Mater Europaea locations". Alma Mater Europaea. Archived from the original on 7 June 2024. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  18. ↑ "Laufende Meldeverfahren : Meldung ausländischer Studien : Meldung ausländischer Studien :: AQ Austria". www.aq.ac.at. Retrieved 2025-07-07.
  19. ↑ "Alma Mater Vienna eröffnet Zentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz". www.studium.at (in German). 2025-02-03. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  20. ↑ "theconf.org". theconf.org. Archived from the original on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  21. ↑ "Amtsgeheimnis ist Geschichte: Informationsfreiheitsgesetz tritt in Kraft". vienna.at. 2025-09-01. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  22. ↑ Nachrichten, Salzburger (2025-08-30). "Erste Anfragenserie zum Informationsfreiheitsgesetz: "Es gibt ein Recht auf Wahrheit"". Salzburger Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  23. ↑ "Famed economist Jeffrey Sachs rails against Bitcoin: Highly polluting and 'almost like counterfeiting'". Fortune. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  24. ↑ "Na konferenci ECM o izzivih za znanost in izobraževanje". krog.sta.si (in Slovenian). 2018-03-09. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  25. ↑ "Digitalna preobrazba je nujnost, a ne pozabiti na človečnost". vecer.com (in Slovenian). 13 March 2021. Archived from the original on 2023-03-14. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  26. ↑ "Mednarodna znanstvena konferenca »Za človeka gre« letos že desetič". Revija Reporter (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  27. ↑ "STA: Conference urges putting technology into service of security and dignity". english.sta.si. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  28. ↑ "Dekanja z Oxforda: Kitajci so dokaj rasistični, menijo, da belopolti ne delajo dovolj #video". siol.net (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  29. ↑ ""Pandemija je razgalila tudi pomanjkljivosti digitalnega učnega procesa"". rtvslo.si (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  30. ↑ "STA: Conference urges putting technology into service of security and dignity". english.sta.si. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
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