Timi Celcer | Building the new European Renaissance

What does it actually mean to be European — beyond the common market and the institutions? In the 13th Episode of the European Republic, our host Nikodem Skrobisz talks with Timi Celcer, a Slovenian entrepreneur and pan-European activist exploring that question through two very different ventures.With Via Nova, Timi wants to spark a new European renaissance by reviving Latin — not as a dead classroom language, but as a living, shared medium that could give Europe a cultural identity to match its economic and political integration. With Grow Europe, he takes the pragmatic route, building a “growth infrastructure” to help startups and SMEs scale across the continent’s fragmented markets.It’s a sweeping conversation that moves from a backpacking trip through Africa and Asia to philosophy, from the revival of Hebrew in Israel to the standardisation of Mandarin, and from idealism as a way of life to the very concrete bottlenecks facing European founders. Along the way: why Latin and not English, what a new European renaissance built on Athens, Jerusalem and Rome might look like, and a closing defence of idealism in a continent that has been pragmatic for too long.Connect with Timi: linkedin.com/in/timi-celcerFollow Via Nova on Instagram: instagram.com/vianova_europae Get full access to Nikodem at nikodemskrobisz.substack.com/subscribe