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.
Academics The current offer consists of an interdisciplinary academic curriculum on the process of European integration. The Advanced Diploma in European Studies (ADES), later re-named Diploma and University Master in Advanced Euroepan Studies, and again recently named "Master in European Studies" (MAES), 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 Year Name of the Promotion Speaker at the lectio inauguralis 2003/2004 Alcide De Gasperi Romano Prodi 2004/2005 Paul-Henri Spaak Étienne Davignon 2005/2006 Giovanni Paolo II Franco Frattini 2006/2007 Konrad Adenauer Mario Monti 2007/2008 Robert Schuman José Manuel Durão Barroso 2008/2009 Jean Monnet Giorgio Napolitano 2009/2010 Altiero Spinelli Pascal Lamy 2010/2011 François Mitterrand Herman Van Rompuy 2011/2012 Willy Brandt Jerzy Buzek 2012/2013 Luigi Einaudi Vassilios Skouris2013/2014Erasmus 2014/2015 Jacques Le Goff 2015/2016 Pericles Dimitris Avramopoulos2016/2017Alfonso Mattera2017/2018Ortega y Gasset2018/2019Charlemagne2019/2020Hugo Grotious2020/2021Marie Curie2021/2022David Sassoli
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20081204010912/http://www.europeancollege.it/index.php?IDL=1&IDA=2&seq=3&IDObj=22