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What is the AIS?

What the AIS is not

The Formation of the AIS

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How to Join the AIS

What Does the AIS Do?

The Structure of the AIS

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The International Academy of Sciences (Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj, AIS) San Marino is a common platform for professionally notable and linguistically progressive scientists from all over the world, striving for greater efficiency in scientific research and teaching, and for closer contact of the latter with technology and art, by enhancing international communication and interdisciplinary co-operation.

The members (MdAIS), as well as the associated, effective members (AMdAIS) and the adjuncts (AdAIS) belong to different nations, continents, races, religions, speech areas, and policies. Their political pluralism guarantees the strict political neutrality of the AIS, except for its only common political goal: to realize, little by little, the basic human right to communication without hindrance either by language barriers or language discrimination.

AIS does not restrict itself to some of the sciences (this is why, in ILo, it is called "akademio de la sciencoj", rather than "de sciencoj") but is basically open towards any field of systematic research where it is desired and conceivable to gain knowledge valid independently of linguistic, racial, political, religious, or other membership. Therefore the sections and departments of the AIS, while aiming at a complete classification of all sciences, do not cover theology nor any analogous doctrine of any religion, but do comprise comparative theology and religious history.

The AIS is a free institution in the free republic of San Marino, a small European country. The state of San Marino provides a legal platform and some material help but does not interfere with the freedom of scientific teaching and research.

Although the International Academy of Sciences (AIS), according to art. 4 of its statute, "takes special care of the application of the Internacia Lingvo in scientific communication and in culture", it neither wants to nor can it replace the Akademio de Esperanto or any other organisation of the Esperanto movement.

Even though the only working language of the Senate, the General Assembly and the examination committees of the AIS is ILo, the Internacia Lingvo of Dr. Esperanto, the Statute, in addition, declares the four ethnic languages with the richest tradition in European history official languages of the AIS, namely English, French, German, and Italian.

The heads of the AIS are aware of the fact that the Esperanto movement surpasses the aims of the Academy, which are restricted to the fields of science and, in second place, of art and technology. So AIS does in no way wish to rival the Esperanto movement or to force the complete cultural heritage of the latter upon the members and adjuncts of the Academy. Quite a few university researchers use the language initiated by Dr. Zamenhof in 1887 in their scientific work because of the precision, conciseness, ease of learning and neutrality of this most successful of the living planned languages but do not feel themselves Esperantists for it.

This division from the Esperanto movement AIS points out by its respect to the compromise proclaimed on the occasion of the inauguration of the First "Sanmarinian University Session" (SUS 1) on December 28, 1983: AIS uses as the name of the language of Zamenhof not the initiator's pseudonym but the original name "Internacia Lingvo", frequently abbreviated "ILo".

At the suggestion of scientist members of the "Europa Klubo", the Sanmarinian Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs, Dr. Fausta Morganti, presented a motion about the foundation of the Academy, approved by the "Congresso di Stato" in its decision nr. 58 on May 19, 1983. The promotion committee AIS of the Europa Klubo prepared the first Sanmarinian University Session (SUS 1). On this conference, by which the scientific activity of the AIS effectively started already in 1983, the International Scientifique College (Internacia Scienca Kolegio, ISK), was established as the personal base for this scientific activity.

On September 13, 1985, AIS was established officially by notarial signing of the Statute, and on October 1985 ("1685 after the foundation of the Republic"), the Great and General Council of the Republic of San Marino enacted the skeleton law on university teaching and institutions of higher education, making possible the official acknowledgement of the Academy's teaching activities without infringing its internationality and independence.

This way, on the basis of detailed examination regulations, and of the judgement of a multinational committee, AIS can acknowledge graduations from universities or other academic institutions conferring an international scientific degree:

• "bakalauxro" (bachelor, Bac.) after studies of at least 2 - 3 years,
• "magistro" (master, Mag.) after at least 2 years of post-bachelor study,
• "doktoro" (doctor, Dr.), and
• "habilita doktoro" (Dr. habil.), for research activity.

In addition to the legal and material support bestowed by the Republic of San Marino, AIS is supported

• financially by the "Supporting Sector" - enjoying a certain amount of self-government by virtue of the statute and comprising at the moment (January 1995) 91 individual and 6 collective members -
• and intellectually by the informal International Scientific College (Internacia Scienca Kolegio, ISK), from which AIS calls its effective members and adjuncts and invites its lecturers. So far, 971 scientists from 66 countries have joined the ISK, 466 from 48 countries being active at the moment.

AIS consists of its supporting members (SMdAIS) and the members of the International Scientific College (ISKanoj) appointed by the Senate (as well as the members of the International College of Arts, called IAKanoj, and the International College of Technology, called ITKanoj). It is welcomed if an ISKano is at the same time a supporting member.

How to join as a supporting member:

• If you are an ISKano already,
  • send an informal letter to the Supporting Sector of AIS
  • pay 1 AKU every year, which includes the symbolic contribution you paid so far as ISKano.
• If you are not yet an ISKano,
  • send an informal letter to the Supporting Sector of AIS
  • wait for the approval of the General Assembly of the supporting sector and of the the Senate of the AIS
  • pay 1 AKU every year.
• If your organization wants to become a collective supporting member,
  • send an informal letter to the Supporting Sector of AIS
  • wait for the approval of the Board of the Supporting Sector and of the Senate of the AIS
  • pay 1 AKU every year.

How to join the ISK:

• Send a Pripersona Informilo to the Scientific Office (Scienca Sekretariejo)
• Pay a yearly contribution of 0.1 AKU, prepaying at least for 3 years, i.e. 0.3 AKU
• AIS welcomes all scientists of any discipline who
  • approve of the principle of nationlessness of the sciences and the aim of the AIS to reduce language discrimination in international scientific co-operation,
  • successfully completed a higher study of at least two years (e.g. with a "diploma", "Vordiplom", "bachelor", engineer's diploma, teacher's exam, etc.), or qualified for a higher degree on national level,
  • at least can read and understand a simple text in ILo.

How to join the ITK:

• yet unclear: (
• The ITK welcomes everybody who
  • has studied for several years and practises a technological profession (civil, mechanical, or electrical engineer, medicine, pedagogics, communication, administration, etc.)

How to join the IAK:

• yet unclear: (
• The IAK welcomes everybody who
  • has studied for several years and practises an artistic branch (music, painting, dancing, literature, theatre, etc.)

The AIS performs

• typically academic tasks
  • organizing conferences,
  • honouring outstanding scientists, artists, and technologists,
  • publishing books and papers;
• typically universitarian tasks
  • giving courses and lectures, and
  • holding examinations.

AIS regularly organizes

• university sessions with
  • courses,
  • lecture series,
  • inaugural lectures,
  • free reports,
  • candidate lectures,
  • examinations,
  • sessions of the organs of the AIS,
  • surrounding cultural programme;
• Sanmarinian University Sessions (SUS) only in the Republic of San Marino,
• with the help of its subsidiaries, information centres, and co-operating universities San-Marino style University Sessions (SUS) also in other countries, e.g. in Bialystok (Poland), Sibiu (Romania), Prague (Czech Republic), Nitra (Slovakia), Moscow and St. Peterburg (Russia), Aristotle Free University of Athens (Greece). A hundred universities where members of the AIS work are in this way represented at the AIS.

AIS is divided in four Sectors:

• the Scientific Sector (SciS)
• the Technological Sector (TeS)
• the Artistic Sector (ArS)
• the Supporting Sector (SubS)

The Scientific Sector is divided in six sections or faculties, each led by a dean.

• Section 1: Cybernetics
• Section 2: Humanities
• Section 3: Structural sciences
• Section 4: Philosophy
• Section 5: Natural sciences
• Section 6: Morphologic sciences

The collaborators of the Scientific Sector

• have different degrees of rights and duties. In January, 1995, there were
  • full members (MdAIS), the professors in ordinary (OProf),
  • associated members (AMdAIS), the associated professors (AProf) and the independent lecturers (PDoc),
  • adjuncts (AdAIS), associated lecturers (ADoc) or scientific assistants (ASci)
• work in the six sections of the Scientific Sector.

• Detailed documentation about the evolution, statute, and regulations of the AIS you can find in the book, "Ekesto kaj celoj de la Akademio Internacia de al Sciencoj San Marino", published by the AIS.
• The Statute and all the regulations you can find in "La regularoj de AIS".
• All decisions of the organs of the AIS are published in the quarterly quadrilingual journal "grkg/Humankybernetik", sent free of charge to all supporting members, which anybody may subscribe to.
• Lecture notes and scientific articles are published in the series "Acta Sanmarinensia".
• Detailed information about the membership and the structure is found in "Internacia Sciencista Dokumentaro".
• More information can be received from the deans and from the Scientific Office.