COLOGNE UNIVERSITY

Cologne University has been selected by Roberto Amati in relation to the real history of european integration, then enlisted in the UNIVERSITAS category, accompanied by own fact SHEET useful to the comprehension, completed of historical MAPS AND IMAGES or with a direct linking to the related Blog contents dedicated to the aeternitas and the future of Europe.

	FOUNDATION
Year	1388 A.D.
City	Cologne
Founder	Pope Urban VI
Where	Archibischopric of Cologne (Reich Empire Electorate)
Originary subjects	arithmetic, astronomy, Canon law , geometry and music, grammar, Imperial/Roman law , logic, rhetoric , theology

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	NOWADAYS
State	Germany
Name	University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln)
Seates	Cologne city
Degree programs	Adenauer School of Government , Center for Teacher Education (ZfL) , Management Economics Social, Natural and Humanities Sciences
Library	Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln
Collegium	Collegium Musicum
Alumni	KölnAlumni
Famous teachers	S.Albertus Magnus , S.Thomas Aquinas , Hans Mayer , Benjamin List , F.F. Wallraf
Famous scholars	Kurt Alder , Heinrich Böll , Karolos Papoulias , Katja Terlau , Gustav Heinemann
Awards	5 Nobel Prize , 11 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize , 8 Humboldt Professorship , 2 Humboldt Research Awards

Who founded the University of Cologne? Cologne University was the fourth established in the Reich Empire after the Karlova University of Prague, the University of Wien and the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg: in 1388 A.D. Pope Urban VI emitted a bull and established the Studium within the Archibischopric of Cologne, already eleved as Electorate of the Empire with the reform of the Emperor Charles IV. Originary discilines teached were Canon law and Imperial/Roman law, theology, logic and rhetoric, by the most famous members of the Scholastica movement as S.Albertus Magnus and S.Thomas Aquinas, in order of the ecclesiastic reform inspired to the monastic life-style that put monks formed at the correct christian doctrine on the cathedras of the most important european unviersities of the time as Bologna, Oxford, Paris and Toulouse. The university did not have a name for a long time, except for the medieval name universitas studii s[an]c[ta]e civitatis coloniensis still saved in the university’s seal. It inherited the ancient tradition of the Schola Palatina in Aachen, already restoring the public teaching experiences of the more ancient Athens and Constantinople academies.

During the Napoleonic epoch Cologne University was abolished by the French First Republic, which had invaded and annected the city (as many universities across France abolished under the republican constitution) but the last rector F.F. Wallraf was able to preserve the university's Great Seal, which is now used again. In 1919 A.D. the Prussian government endorsed the decision by the Cologne City Council to re-establish the ancient university, as a replacement for the loss of the University of Strasbourg (ceded to France after the First World War): so the Cologne Mayor Konrad Adenauer (the future Canchellor of West Germany and 'father' of the European Union) signed the charter of the university new course. The University of Cologne has been commemorated on the Federal Republic of Germany's postage stamp in 1988 A.D., celebrating university's 600 years!

At that point, the new university was located in Neustadt-Süd but relocated to its current campus in Lindenthal in 1934 A.D. (the old premises are now being used by the TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences). Initially, Cologne University was composed of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences (successor to the Institutes of Commerce and of Communal and Social Administration) and of the Faculty of Medicine (successor to the Academy of Medicine). The year after were added the Faculties of Law and of Arts, from which the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences was separated in 1955 A.D. to form an independent Faculty. In 1980 A.D. the two Cologne departments of the Rhineland School of Education were attached to the University of Cologne as Faculties of Education and of Special Education. Some years later the atheneum became a founding member of the Community of European Management Schools and International Companies (CEMS), today's Global Alliance in Management Education. Cologne University is defined a statutory corporation (Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts), operated by the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, regularly ranked at the top of national and international law and business rankings.

Cologne University is a public research university, member of the German U15 association of major research-intensive universities and is constantly ranked among top 20 German universities in the world rankings. It is involved in 18 DFG Collaborative Research Centres and 10 participations in Collaborative Research Centres at other universities (CRC 1211: Earth - Evolution at the Dry Limit; CRC 1218: Mitochondrial Regulation of Cellular Function; CRC 1238: Control and Dynamics of Quantum Materials; CRC 1252: Prominence in Language; CRC 1310: Predictability in Evolution; CRC 1399: Mechanisms of Drug Sensitivity and Resistance in Small Cell Lung Cancer; CRC 1403: Cell Death in Immunity, Inflammation and Disease; CRC 1451: Key Mechanisms of Motor Control in Health and Disease; CRC 1530: Elucidation and Targeting of Pathogenic Mechanisms in B Cell Malignancies; CRC 1601: Habitats of Massive Stars Across Cosmic Time; CRC 1607: Towards immunomodulatory and Anti(lymph)angiogenic Therapies for Age-Related Blinding Eye Diseases; CRC 1678: Systems-Level Consequences of Fidelity Changes in mRNA and Protein Biosynthesis; CRC TRR 183: Entangled States of Matter; CRC TRR 228: Future Rural Africa: Future-making and Social-Ecological Transformation; CRC TRR 341: Plant Ecological Genetics).

The University of Cologne maintains 88 official partnerships with universities from 10 countries. Of these, the partnerships with the Université d'Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand I and the Pennsylvania State University are the oldest. In addition, Cologne has further cooperations with more than 260 other universities such as: Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski; Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza (Brazil); Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou and Fudan University in Shanghai (China); Keio University and Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo (Japan); National Law School of Bangalore (India); University of Rajshahi (Bangladesh); Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand II; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; University of Wrocław; Jagiellonian University of Kraków; Maxim Gorky Literature Institute of Moscow; Volgograd State University; University of Seville; Karlova University of Prague; Istanbul University; University of California, School of Law of Berkeley and the Duquesne University in Pittsburgh (U.S.A.).

The Cologne University has 5 Clusters of Excellence: CECAD Cluster of Excellence for Aging Research, Cluster of Excellence 'ECONtribute' for Markets & Public Policy, CEPLAS Cluster of Excellence for Plant Sciences, ML4Q Cluster of Excellence Matter and Light for Quantum Information and DYNAVERSE Cluster of Excellence. There 'transfer' means more than simply passing on knowledge through patents, licences or spin-offs: it is a reciprocal, lively process, supported by the entire university of researchers, academic staff, technical&administrative staff and students. Transfer happens when science connects with business and society! Be it through direct solutions for patients, court proceedings, companies, or schools, or through the potential of basic research for future innovations. Central institutions such as the KinderUni or the study programmes for senior citizens also make academic knowledge accessible to a broader public. Cologne University english bachelors are estimated all over the world as known as no tuition free, while it is an important centre for German sport.

The Cologne International Forum was established for funding to promote internationalisation of research at the Cologne University: 2 programs are International Research Cluster and Innovative Tandem Collaborations. Some features available at the Cologne University are: the GeoMuseum is the only natural history museum in Cologne city; the Theatre Collection in Schloss Wahn mantains images and text from European theater from the XVI century; the Max Bruch Archive of the Institute of Musicology; the Prehistoric collection artefacts from all periods of prehistoric and early history also from foreign sites, from the Neanderthal fist to the bronze sword and iron weapons of the early Middle Ages; the Papyrus collection of the Institute of Antiquity. In the end, Cologne University hosts the Ensembles des Instituts für Musikpädagogik.

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