Budapest – The prestigious international prize “European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities” was awarded for 2017 to Prof. Maurizio Pirro, lecturer at the LEILA Department of the BarI University. This is an acknowledgment for excellence in humanistic teaching, involving active teachers in all countries of the European Community. The award, which was launched by the Central European University in Budapest from 2011, is awarded this year for the first time to an Italian teacher as well as to a philologist at a South European University. In previous editions, the awards went to a lawyer from the University of Glasgow, a mediologist at the London School of Economics, a historian at the University of Groningen, a philosopher at the University of Bayreuth, an economist at Trinity College in Dublin. (9colonne)
