Transcultura

Objectives

- A political objective: to show that Europe knows how to have a dialogue with the world, how to open itself to the diversity of views and to models of knowledge manifested in non-European cultural areas, how to recognise the process through which the European identity is shaped in its exchanges with non-European cultural areas, and how, in this transcultural concertation, to suggest an alternative to "culture clash";

- An ethical and cultural objective: to confront the different ways of representing universals and to construct new models - models of society, of knowledge and of communication - that are capable of bringing together Europe and its non-European cultural partners in innovating cooperation. The principle of reciprocity thus provides the linking, organising grounds for true universality;

- A scientific and educational objective: to propose transcultural analysis methodologies that are applicable to different situations and intercultural contexts, in cultural, scientific or economic exchanges relating to the new models of distance communication, in particular to the networks of distance education and distance researching.