AIS San-Marino

The AIS is a free institution in the free republic ofSan 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. What is the AIS not? Although the International Academy of Sciences (AIS), according to article 4 of its stat... ute, "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 theSenate, the General Assembly and the examination committees of the AISis ILo, the Internacia Lingvo of Dr. Esperanto, the Statuteadditionally declares the four ethnic languages with the richest tradition in European history as official languages of the AIS, namely English, French, German, and Italian. The heads of the AIS are aware that the aims of the Esperanto movement surpass those of the Academy, which are restricted to the fields of science and, secondarily, of art and technology. Therefore AIS in no way aims 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 they nevertheless do not think of themselves as Esperantists already for doing so. This division from the Esperanto movement AIS highlights the compromise proclaimed on the occasion of the solemn inauguration of the First "Sanmarinian University Session" ( SUS 1) on December 28, 1983: AIS uses as the name of Zamenhof's language not the initiator's pseudonym but the original name "Internacia Lingvo", frequently abbreviated "ILo". How did the AIS arise? At the suggestion of scientist from the "Europa Klubo", the ...Read More