Europa-Institut of Saarland University
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| Type | Postgraduate Institute |
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| Established | 1951 |
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Saarland University |
| Director | Werner Meng Thomas Giegerich |
| Students | ~ 75 |
| Location |
 Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany (EU)49°15′20″N 7°02′30″E / 49.255556°N 7.041667°ECoordinates: 49°15′20″N 7°02′30″E / 49.255556°N 7.041667°E |
| Working languages | English and German |
| Website | http://www.europainstitut.de/ |
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| Coordinates: 49°15′20″N 7°2′30″E / 49.25556°N 7.04167°E |
The Europa-Institut was founded at Saarland University in 1951, long before the signing of the Treaties of Rome, and it is consequently the second eldest institution focused on European Integration (after the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium). Over 5,000 students from over 40 different countries have since graduated from the Institute. Having built on the content of its study program continuously and adapted to developments on the European level over time, the Europa-Institut today focuses on European law and international law with the possibility of specialization in specific study units.
The Europa-Institut was intended to be the "jewel and symbol" of Saarland University, a university itself based on the merger of German and French educational traditions, founded under the aegis of France and the University of Nancy in 1948 and boasting personalities such as Robert Schuman amongst the first of its students.
Aims and tasks of the Europa-Institut are to research the Europe of the future, to teach young people educated in the traditional manner of each different country about Europe, to offer education from a uniform European perspective for students from these countries and, perhaps before long, to produce Europe’s driving forces.
The Europa-Institut dedicated itself to following the European integrational process from the very beginning, providing a curriculum independent of that of Saarland University and taught by personalities such as the French politician, academic and pioneer of the European movement, André Philip.
To start with, almost all "European disciplines" were included in the study program. The focus during the first two years, namely 1951 and 1952, was on comparative literature, philosophy, history and musicology. Law and economics were disciplines which played a complimentary role.
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