European College of Parma

The European College of Parma Foundation (Italian: Fondazione Collegio Europeo di Parma, French: La Fondation Collège Européen de Parme) 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.

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 Eruopean 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.

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.

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