Italy’s Ambassador in Bucharest Mario Cospito awarded the Romanian academic the distinction during a ceremony in the Aula Magna of the Babes Bolyai University, on Monday.
‘It is a pleasure for me to be here in this temple of the world and the Romanian knowledge, today, a pleasure which is the more bigger because I am here to give Mr. Rector out a high distinction granted to him by Italy’s President,’ Ambassador Cospito said in the speech he delivered on the occasion.
The Italian dignitary emphasized the reputation Professor Marga enjoys, as ex-Minister of Education, over 1996-2000, a famous philosopher, but also as the manager who skillfully heads the UBB. The Italian Ambassador also praised the reforming spirit of all the demarches Professor Marga had been carrying out so far, as well, and his approaches regarding the impact the globalization has had on the current society.
“You have always endorsed the academic relations between the University you have headed and the Italian ones, and in 2002, you confidently backed the foundation of the Italian Cultural Center in Cluj Napoca,’ Ambassador Maio Cospito said adding that the students from all over Europe learning at UBB are the most convincing witness of Andrei Marga’s endeavors promoting the University abroad.
Thanking for the honor Italy’s President granted him through the distinction, Professor Marga explained why he feels close to Italy, the first reason being surely the cultural one, namely the illustrious names such as Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Michelangelo, Bellini, Verdi or other remarkable Italian personalities; and later, over 1966-1971, when Marga was learning the Italian language in order he could read the works by Croce, Labriola, Gramsci, Papini and Ungaretti, but also dailies like La Repubblica, La Stampa or Rinascita.
‘As UBB Rector, I have always wished for a wider cooperation with the prolific and prodigious Italian culture,’ Professor Marga said stressing hat the Cluj-based University numbers four Italian Chairs, the Italian language being taught at the Faculty of Letters at the Faculty for European Studies, that for Economic Studies and Business Management, as well as that of Business, the number of the students interested in learning Italian having been ever larger.
At the same time, the UBB Rector emphasized the good cooperation with the University of Brescia and the Erasmus Programme that allowed exchanges of experience between the teaching staff and the students of UBB and those from the Universities of Rome, Padua, Florence, Pisa, Bari, Camerino, Messina, Perugia, Pavia, Lecce, Bologna, Verona and Venice.
On the other hand, the Italian Cultural Center opened in Cluj Napoca in 2002 has been playing a beneficial role enabling the ties with personalities and fields of Italian studies, and other centers of studies belonging to the UBB opened in partnership with the University La Sapienza of Rome.
Same as famous Romanians and Italians proved, before, the two countries have a wide field of cooperation possibilities, many of them still unexplored, the UBB rector stressed, expressing his full confidence in the enlargement of the Romanian Italian academic cooperation.
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