[3] Among the leading scholars, who teach or have given guest lectures at Alma Mater or its events, are Harvard Law School professor Mark Tushnet, Oxford professors Martin Kemp, Mindy Chen-Wishart, Jacob Rowbottom and Jeremy Howick, Yale professor Fred Volkmer German political scientist Werner Weidenfeld, who was the rector of Alma Mater, the Alma Mater president and cardiac surgeon Felix Unger, the Facebook and Instagram Oversight Board member and former European Court of Human Rights vice-president Andras Sajo, David Erdos of Cambridge, and philosophers Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Srećko Horvat.

[14][15][16] In 2010, the European Academy officially established the Alma Mater Europaea, with leading Austrian surgeon and European Academy president Felix Unger appointed as the international university's first president, the German political scientist Werner Weidenfeld becoming the first rector, and the Slovenian lawyer, former rector and diplomat Ludvik Toplak the first prorector.

[19] The university board stated that Alma Mater Europaea would be based on three so-called "W principles": Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Wirken.

In 2013, the Salzburg campus of Alma Mater Europaea was established and about 1000 students studied in doctoral, masters, and undergrad programs in Austria, Slovenia, and other countries.

One is Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (ISH), internationally renown graduate school of philosophy, established in 1992, with which Slavoj Žižek and numerous other world's leading philosophers had been affiliated.

[24] It's About People is an annual week-long multidisciplinary conference organized by the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Alma Mater Europaea university.

[25] It regularly hosts leaders of national academies of sciences, university rectors, political leaders including EU commissioners, judges of the European Court of Human Rights and highest national courts, and scholars from prominent universities including Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia.