European College of Parma


The European College of Parma Foundation is a higher education institution which provides academic training for young European graduates in the field of European Union law, economics and politics. The educational programme offered by the European College of Parma is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary academic curriculum covering the process of European integration.
The educational programme provided by the European College is geared to preparing students for careers in EU, national and local institutions, professional associations, the corporate world and private practice.
The first unit of the college was created in 1988 as a consortium of institutions, by the will of the institutions of the territory of Parma and the Emilia-Romagna Region in order to offer a higher education institute which promoted knowledge on the functioning of EU institutions.
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Academics

The current offer consists of an interdisciplinary academic curriculum on the process of European integration. The Advanced [Diploma in European Studies], later re-named Diploma and University Master in Advanced Euroepan Studies, and again recently named "Master in Eruopean Studies", was launched on 27 September 2003 with the inauguration of the first academic year by the then President of European Commission, Romano Prodi. In 2004 the College got the legal form of foundation.

Promotions

Since 2003, similarly to what happens at the College of Europe in Bruges and Natolin, each academic year is called "promotion".
Promotions are dedicated to prominent personalities that have contributed to the European integration.
Academic YearName of the PromotionSpeaker at the lectio inauguralis
2003/2004Alcide De GasperiRomano Prodi
2004/2005Paul-Henri SpaakÉtienne Davignon
2005/2006Giovanni Paolo IIFranco Frattini
2006/2007Konrad AdenauerMario Monti
2007/2008Robert SchumanJosé Manuel Durão Barroso
2008/2009Jean MonnetGiorgio Napolitano
2009/2010Altiero SpinelliPascal Lamy
2010/2011François MitterrandHerman Van Rompuy
2011/2012Willy BrandtJerzy Buzek
2012/2013Luigi EinaudiVassilios Skouris
2013/2014Erasmus
2014/2015Jacques Le Goff
2015/2016PericlesDimitris Avramopoulos
2016/2017Alfonso Mattera
2017/2018Ortega y Gasset
2018/2019Charlemagne
2019/2020Hugo Grotious
2020/2021Marie Curie
2021/2022David Sassoli