{"id":341464,"date":"2012-10-19T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/inauguration-of-5th-academic-year-at-sophia-university-institute\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:07:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:07:49","slug":"inauguration-of-5th-academic-year-at-sophia-university-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/inauguration-of-5th-academic-year-at-sophia-university-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Inauguration of 5th Academic Year At Sophia University Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20121019-01.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-72521\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; border: 0px none;\" title=\"20121019-01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20121019-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><em>\u201cWe feel called to be active players in the construction of Sophia, a project by no means complete, but one that requires the contribution of each and every one of us,\u201d<\/em> said Ines Tolintino Da Silva from Portugal and representative of the Seat Council as she spoke for the student body during the opening of the fifth academic year at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iu-sophia.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sophia University Institute,<\/strong> <\/a>which was held on 18 October 2012. To date, forty-nine students have obtained a degree in \u201cFoundations and perspectives of a culture of unity\u201d and eighty students from several countries are enrolled in other specialisations as well.  A greeting message punctually arrived from Vice Chancellor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/news\/2011\/01\/20\/maria-voce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Maria Voce,<\/strong><\/a> president of the Focolare Movement, who was unable to be present because she is attending the Synod of Bishops. While highlighting the prerequisite for the Sophia experience, she stated: \u201cthe project is daring, but for this reason no less thrilling, It demands a mutual willingness to listen, to deeply share common purposes, renewed fidelity to the original insight, a common gaze towards a future that must be built together. In a word, it even more decisively demands love from us, that we live, and that we be love for each other.\u201d  <div id=\"attachment_72523\" style=\"width: 324px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72523\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72523 \" style=\"margin-left: 10px; border: 0px none;\" title=\"20121019-03\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20121019-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"209\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-72523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theologian Dr Piero Coda, President of the Institute<\/p><\/div>  Then, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/news\/2012\/08\/03\/il-mondo-di-sophia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newly re-elected president of Sophia University Institute<\/a>, theologian Piero Coda, gave the commitment guidelines for the next four years. Three new disciplines have been introduced in<strong> Economics and Management, Trinitarian Ontology and Political Studies<\/strong>. A committee is working on revising the Statutes of the institute in view of a final approval. Furthermore, in order to better incarnate the\u00a0 \u201cunity of life and of thought\u201d feature at Sophia, proposals were made for establishment of an Academic Senate to be a place where representatives of all the components could converge for the community life of the students, alongside the already approved Academic Council.  <div id=\"attachment_72525\" style=\"width: 318px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72525\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72525 \" style=\"margin-right: 10px; border: 0px none;\" title=\"20121019-04\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20121019-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"212\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-72525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Pasquale Ferrara<\/p><\/div>  Finally, this year\u2019s inaugural lecture was given by <strong>Professor Pasquale Ferrara<\/strong>, a professor at Sophia University Institute, longtime diplomat and secretary General Secretary of the European University Institute. In a broad political-historical overview, Ferrara addressed the issue of \u201cconstitutional peace\u201d that has recently received more than authoritative and legitimising confirmation with the awarding of the <strong>Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many innovations: specializations in Economy, Politics and Trinitarian Ontology; the constitution of the Senate and Council for student affairs; Sophia University Institute Statutes well underway<\/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-341464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341464","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=341464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}