Yesterday the ceremony at the Kursaal Congress Center together with Alessandro Barbero and in front of over 500 people
"A place for free discussion and dialogue, to help grasp the potential and inclinations, for the growth of the cultural and cognitive tools necessary for the development and emancipation of the person, in which there is the stimulus to have ideas and then express them , perhaps modifying them, opening up to the world in order to be able to change it even a little, after having grasped its complexity”. This is the path traced by Corrado Petrocelli, Rector of the University of the Republic of San Marino, during the inauguration ceremony of the 2022-23 Academic Year which yesterday, Friday 3 March, was sold out at the Kursaal Congress Center opposite of the more than 500 seats available. In the audience the Captains Regent, institutional and academic representatives, students and others.
In addition to taking stock of the teaching and "research" activities, which have increased and have involved innovative and visionary projects", Petrocelli mentioned the main initiatives aimed at the territory such as "the cycle of seminars, curated by the Research Center for International Relations under official government mandate, to educate citizens on the republic's European integration process, given the imminent association agreement with the EU”.
Furthermore, a particular passage on the Titan's path within the European Higher Education Area, which has among the main purposes that of ensuring maximum comparability, compatibility and coherence between the education systems of the countries of the continent.
"I would like to tell you about the last meeting" which took place with the representatives of the European reality "and do it through the words that the Captains Regent addressed to us", the Rector was keen to underline. "A further step is essential to obtain definitive recognition and this is only possible through the approval of a draft framework law on higher education that fills a gap by introducing purposes, principles, obligations and duties for any higher education institution" of the Titan.
"The law, which should see the light shortly", should provide for "the definitive adjustment" of the republic "to basic European standards, with the possibility finally that San Marino can acquire permanent, hired teaching staff, from San Marino and from outside, resident and non-resident, as happens for all universities, thus constituting a "finally stable" workforce. This would compensate for the consequences of "a haemorrhage that has grieved us in recent years, when many of those who trained here left us in the face of proposals for tenure in other universities".
Emphasizing the need to "create legislation that recognizes a real autonomy of the University and said specific rules for the sector, no longer subjecting it to the general ones of administration", the Rector then gave the floor to the Secretary of State for the Education and Culture, Andrea Belluzzi, to the director of the Department of History, Luciano Canfora, and to Franco Cardini, member of the scientific council of the School of Historical Studies of the University of San Marino, who conferred an honorary research doctorate in Historical Sciences to Alessandro Barbero. The historian himself gave a lectio magistralis entitled "How Europe emerged from the crisis of the fourteenth century", now available on the Facebook page "University of the Republic of San Marino".