The process initiated by the Bologna Conference in 1999 towards an economically, environmentally, and culturally sustainable development has led to the constitution of the European Research Area, in which education is in the process of being streamlined in all participating countries. One of its first consequences was a long wished for increase in the number of graduates all over Europe. Given that the main difficulty seems to lie in disseminating an idea of science that were at the crossroad between basic and applied research, very much in the spirit of the Bologna declaration, an answer to this difficulty is the Studium Generale Program (=SGP), which is a set of interdisciplinary modules aimed at presenting to students of all disciplines the nucleus of European science and philosophy (from Aristotle’s Analytica to Euclid’s Stoicheia, from Plato’s Politeia to Augustine’s Confessiones). Developed since 2005 by a network of European universities brought together by the Guardini Stiftung e.V. (Berlin) with funding of Germany’s Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Bonn), the SGP is close to completion. It is the best instrument for achieving this dissemination goal in as far as it enables students and teachers to find their own ways within Europe’s intellectual identity. First and foremost, then, it is the methods and the contents produced by the SGP that provides an answer to the question, “What does it mean to be European?” This is the key role the SGP plays with respect of the constitution of Europe’s polycentric identity.

The M-FIL/06 History of Concepts Modul at the Università degli Studi di Verona

POZZO, Riccardo
2009-01-01

Abstract

The process initiated by the Bologna Conference in 1999 towards an economically, environmentally, and culturally sustainable development has led to the constitution of the European Research Area, in which education is in the process of being streamlined in all participating countries. One of its first consequences was a long wished for increase in the number of graduates all over Europe. Given that the main difficulty seems to lie in disseminating an idea of science that were at the crossroad between basic and applied research, very much in the spirit of the Bologna declaration, an answer to this difficulty is the Studium Generale Program (=SGP), which is a set of interdisciplinary modules aimed at presenting to students of all disciplines the nucleus of European science and philosophy (from Aristotle’s Analytica to Euclid’s Stoicheia, from Plato’s Politeia to Augustine’s Confessiones). Developed since 2005 by a network of European universities brought together by the Guardini Stiftung e.V. (Berlin) with funding of Germany’s Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Bonn), the SGP is close to completion. It is the best instrument for achieving this dissemination goal in as far as it enables students and teachers to find their own ways within Europe’s intellectual identity. First and foremost, then, it is the methods and the contents produced by the SGP that provides an answer to the question, “What does it mean to be European?” This is the key role the SGP plays with respect of the constitution of Europe’s polycentric identity.
2009
9783830516965
Studium generale; History of Concepts
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