{"id":305604,"date":"2017-10-27T00:10:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T22:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/knowledge-is-the-path-and-the-answer\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:35:39","slug":"knowledge-is-the-path-and-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/knowledge-is-the-path-and-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge is the path and the answer."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sophia_inaugurazione_15\"<\/a>As processes of isolation increase around the world<\/strong>, Sophia University Institute<\/a> opens a courageous new Centre for Global Studies<\/em> which will \u201cprovide tools for understanding, managing and changing processes of global relations,\u201d explained Pasquale Ferrara<\/strong>, Italian Ambassador to Algeria and president of the new Centre. \u201cThe new centre is the result of ten years of academic experience, and its goal is the training of a new generation of leaders that is capable of facing the complexity, and motivated to work for dialogue and peace.\u201d \u201cNo country, no group can allow itself to become isolated from the other,\u201d said Paolo Frizzi,<\/strong> professor of Religions and Global Processes, and Director of the Centre. \u201cWe are in the middle of an uncertain passage, which is transient and happening on many levels. \"Sophia_inaugurazione_13\"<\/a><\/strong>Sophia Institute, the result of<\/strong> Chiara Lubich\u2019<\/a>s intuition, has tripled its offerings this year: Master Degree in Economics and Management, Trinitarian Ontology and Culture of Unity, with their respective doctorates. President Msgr Piero Coda explains<\/strong>: \u201cThe complex nature of the national and global horizon requires a relentless effort oriented towards the unity of the human family guided by a new thought. In these ten years, Sophia has grown into an Intercultural, inter and trans-disciplinary centre where an integral relationship is nurtured among study, experience and research.\u201d

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Msgr Piero Coda<\/p><\/div> As of today, 400 students from 50 countries<\/strong> have chosen Sophia. There have been 130 Master Degrees and twenty doctorates. For graduate student Elena De Stefanis,<\/strong> who graduated in Philosopy and has a Master Degree in Culture of Unity, studying at Sophia meant \u201covercoming hyper-specialization with an educational approach that relates humanistic, technical and philosophical studies.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em> Focolare <\/a>president <\/a>Maria Voce<\/a> and Vice Chancellor of the Institute, spoke at the inauguration<\/strong>: \u201cSophia is a dream that materialized. It has the face of all the people who are educated in its halls. We all feel in our own skin the urgent challenges that are presented by today\u2019s society, articulated challenges calling for responses on many levels. Education is one of these levels, especially higher education as here at IUS.

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Maria Voce<\/p><\/div> Humankind\u2019s creativity and desire to understand reality and respond to it, seem to inter-penetrate in a university setting. Knowledge is the path and the answer to many of the evils we find in front of us. This is where IUS comes in, making a \u201cvery unique contribution from the viewpoint of content and methodology.\u201d \u201cIn this Institute,\u201d she explains,<\/strong> \u201ctheoretical reflection is visibly linked to practical living. You are engaged in academic courses that are inter and trans-disciplinary. It is possible to delve into diverse disciplines and give a more integral contribution to the development of thought and action. It requires you to establish relationships of sincere trust and mutual esteem with everyone, to the point of becoming a community of life and reflection.\u201d These are demanding and innovative goals<\/strong>, but. \u201cwe must not fall short,\u201d Maria Voce continues<\/strong>. \u201cHere at Sophia we have already started to move towards our goals, even though we are well-aware of the challenges that lie ahead for our institute to consolidate and develop.\u201d Economist and IUS instructor, Luigino Bruni, adds<\/strong> \u201cWhen the students complete their studies, the young people will return to their own countries with new interdisciplinary and relational skills that will be extremely sought by employers.\u201d \u201cToday there is much demand for professionals all round to face the challenges of globalization.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten years since its founding, Sophia University Institute of Loppiano, Italy, has begun its 2017-2018 school year with the opening of a new research and training centre, Sophia Global Studies. Maria Voce\u2019s address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}