Translation of "european tissue culture society " (English → French) :

This campaign will encourage and promote face to face exchanges and contacts between people, as well as events and initiatives throughout 2005 to promote better understanding of European and Japanese society and culture.

It is important to create conditions in which young Europeans can make their presence felt more keenly as citizens with a sense of solidarity and responsibility who are active and tolerant members of a multi-cultural society.

Research will focus on: relations between new forms of citizenship including rights of non-citizens; tolerance, human rights, racism and xenophobia; the role of the media in the development of a European public sphere; evolution of citizenship and identities in a context of cultural, and other diversities in Europe, taking into account population flows; social and cultural dialogue among the peoples in Europe and with other world regions; implications for the development of a European knowledge based ...[+++]society.

(1) Culture has an important intrinsic value to all people in Europe, is an essential element of European integration and contributes to the affirmation and vitality of the European model of society and to the Community's influence on the international scene.

This idea of civic equality, a society of equality, which was almost drowned in the bloodbath of the Second World War, then rooted in the idea of one culture - a " Kulturkampf" - ideas of cultural purity and superiority, ideas deifying collectivity, seems to be supplanted and transplanted by a different civic idea defined by some as the revival of Erasmus's ancient hope, the project of European humanism.

the strategic goal set for the European Union by the Lisbon European Council of 23-24 March 2000 and reaffirmed by the Stockholm European Council of 23 and 24 March 2001 to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth, with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion; the mandate from the Lisbon European Council to the Education Council to undertake a general reflection on the concrete future objectives of education systems, focusing on common concerns and priorities while respecting national diversity ; the Council Resolution of 14 February 2002 on the promot ...[+++]ion of linguistic diversity and language learning which emphasised, amongst other things, that: the knowledge of languages is one of the basic skills which each citizen needs to acquire in order to take part effectively in the European knowledge society and therefore facilitates both integration into society and social cohesion; and that all European languages are equal in value and dignity from the cultural point of view and form an integral part of European culture and civilisation,