(Adnkronos) - La prima rettrice donna dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Elena Beccalli, ha inaugurato l’anno accademico 2024-2025. La cerimonia, preceduta dalla celebrazione Eucaristica presieduta dall’Arcivescovo di Milano monsignor Mario Delpini nella Basilica di Sant’Ambrogio, si è svolta nell’Aula Magna dell’Ateneo alla presenza del ministro dell’Università e della Ricerca, Anna Maria Bernini, del premio Nobel per la Pace 2011 Leymah Gbowee e di Ernest Aryeetey, già Segretario generale dell’African Research Universities Alliance. Durante la cerimonia è stato lanciato il Piano Africa dell’università Cattolica.
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00:00306,595 graduates from his constitution to date, 3,278 PhDs, 666,738 diplomats in
00:16specialization schools, perfectionism and university masters. These are the numbers of the
00:21Catholic University of the Holy Heart of Milan that inaugurated the new academic year in the
00:26presence of the Minister of the University of Research, Anna Maria Bernini, the Nobel Prize
00:31for Peace 2011, Leymah Bowie, and Ernest Aretija, General Secretary of the African Research
00:39University Alliance. In the inaugural speech, the magnificent Rector Elena Beccali, the first
00:45female Rector of the Catholic University, announced the Africa Plan, which aims to place the
00:51African continent at the heart of educational research and third mission projects.
00:56It is a university that wants to be a global university, an international microcosm already today and is very
01:03convinced to further expand with strategic alliances and collaborations in all parts of the
01:10world, including Africa, where we already have many active projects and where we think that with the
01:17strength of the education power we can make a contribution to a
01:22more sustainable development of the entire continent. With the Africa Plan, which at the
01:28moment already has 123 active projects with 40 African countries, the Catholic University
01:33aims to become the European university with the most relevant presence in Africa through
01:39partnerships with athenaeum and local institutions in the light of a mutual enrichment.
01:45I want to congratulate the Catholic University of Milan for this
01:52beautiful ceremony of the inauguration of the academic year and I congratulate them for their
01:56plans of partnership with the African continent. It is certainly a great initiative,
02:02but I also encourage them to obtain this partnership in a situation of mutual respect.
02:09Both parts of the world have skills that must be appreciated, therefore a commitment in a
02:18spirit of collective humanity and with this I mean that each person has their own talent,
02:24their own gifts and it is necessary to emphasize this individual talent and at the core of all this
02:31there must be respect for human dignity.