Collegium Europaeum Jenense

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The Collegium Europaeum Jenense (CEJ) is an association of scientists, politicians and artists founded in 1991 at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena to promote European integration .

The intellectual initiator was Professor Ulrich Zwiener , who was its chief curator until his death in 2004.

The institution is unique at a German university. According to his name, the European intellectual life from the past, present and future is at the center of his activity.

Its honorary members are scientists, politicians and artists. The CEJ currently has around 200 full and 100 corresponding members from 35 countries. The corresponding members include people from European intellectual life with the greatest international reputation, such as Hans Küng , Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Jürgen Habermas , Michael Wolffsohn , Friedrich Schorlemmer , Jan Philipp Reemtsma , Terence James Reed , Adolf Muschg , Reiner Kunze , Alfred Grosser , Maurice-Ruben Hayoun . It is open to students of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

The institution is managed by a multi-member board of trustees and a registered sponsorship association. In accordance with the extensive tasks of the CEJ, the curators are each assigned their own responsibilities that correspond to their areas of expertise. Mathematician Martin Hermann is the spokesman for the board of trustees and chairman of the CEJ eV development association .

The focus is on the discourse of current scientific, economic, artistic and socio-political problems inside and outside Europe. To this end, the CEJ has been offering lecture series and discussions for over 25 years, which are aimed at both experts and an interested public. Topics are, for example, the Peaceful Revolution in the former GDR and the Eastern European countries, education in Europe, energy for Europe, genetic engineering in Europe, Europe Day and the future of the EU, problems in European space travel (ESA), 100 years of relativity. The CollegiumJ series was developed especially for the younger members, and includes discussion concerts dealing with modern pop music.

The results of the work of the CEJ are summarized and published in the CEJ's own publication series (currently 45 volumes). In addition, more than 100 other books have been published by the CEJ, but they do not belong to a uniform series of books.,

Leading Thuringian research centers are also involved in the work of the CEJ, such as the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology , the Leibniz Institute for Aging Research , the Jena University of Applied Sciences , the German National Theater Weimar and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar .

With its series of lectures and events, the CEJ addresses the questions and problems in current and future Europe as well as in the countries outside of the day. Decisive and fundamental for this are the image of man and the ethical foundations as they emerged from the European spiritual tradition of humanism and the Enlightenment.

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  1. a b Jena - Europe. 20 years of the Collegium Europaeum Jenense. (No longer available online.) University of Jena, June 20, 2011, archived from the original on March 25, 2016 ; accessed on March 20, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-jena.de
  2. Friedrich Bauer, Ullrich Erzigkeit among others: Twenty years of peaceful revolution . Ed .: Martin Hermann (=  series of publications of the Collegium Europaeum Jenense . Volume 41 ). IKS Garamond, Jena 2010, ISBN 978-3-941854-30-7 (129 pages, limited preview in the Google book search).