ALPE – EUROPE
The Academy of European Liberal Professionals, based in Brussels, Rue d’Arlon 38, was set up by French professionals who wished to spread the values and principles of liberal professions and increase awareness among the intellectual professions of the realties of Europe, with a view to promoting common growth.
It includes interprofessional professional associations, such as the Italian ALP, the French CnPL and ABF, single professional associations such as the Italian OAU, and many free lance professionals from Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal and Belgium. Special attention will be given to professionals from recent EU member states to promote growth in accordance with common principles.
The founders believed it was vital to establish continuous links between European institutions and intellectual professionals, in the spirit of cooperation and the Treaty of Lisbon.
Another consideration was the importance of giving European Institutions the benefit of the experience and expertise of intellectual professionals in conveying knowledge.
It was decided to organize the Academy on three different levels: a Study Centre and Scientific Committee, which at present includes several academics, including Prof. Giulio Prosperetti, Professor of Labour Law and Social Security and Prof. Luigi Daniele, professor of European Law; Technical experts Prof. Aleramo Lucifredi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Machinery and Vibration Engineering, the architect. Davide Vitali, Professor of Architectural Design and Theory of Architecture and Professor Natale Giuseppe Frega, Agronomist, Professor of Food Science and Technology, Prof. Mario Castellucci, Professor of Human Anatomy and Professor Gerhard Seeberger, Professor of Periodontology; Prof. Rodolfo Fattovich, Egyptologist, Professor of Archaeology and Ancient Ethiopia; a Training Centre & Service Centre, and a Committee of Experts from various intellectual professions, supported by IT experts.
Europe cannot do without intellectual professionals, who do not just work for their clients but are also motivated by a duty to work in the interest of health, law, security, language and arts.
Equally, the intellectual professions cannot do without Europe, and a better understanding of European institutions is needed to face the challenges of economic crisis.
Finally, a main concern is the young generations and the need to transmit to them the strong sense of Europe that drove Spinelli and Schumann, and the information needed to show them that Europe and its institutions is their home and future, where they may find work and move freely.
Brussels, 30 May 2010
President: Maurizio de Tilla
Vice President: Béatrice Ghelber
Secretary-General: Isabella Maria Stoppani