Alma_Mater_Europaea_–_Evropski_center,_Maribor
Alma Mater Europaea – Evropski center, Maribor
Non-profit research and higher education institution
Alma Mater Europaea – European Center Maribor 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 ECM offers 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. 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.[4][5][6] Alma Mater faculty has participated at the leading universities' events including those of Harvard, Columbia, UCLA, and Yale.[7][8][9] Their expert opinion appeared in leading media such as The Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Financial Times.[10][11][12][13]
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.