Following the first conference in June 2014, the research conference took place at the Faculty of Business Studies at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts from November 2-4, 2014 as part of the "Europe Renaissance" project. Around 30 researchers, lecturers and students from 10 countries addressed the issues of the internal cohesion of the European Union from the perspective of civil society.
Most of the contributions were published in book form in June 2015, including four student contributions: Europe Renaissance. Essaying European Civil Society. Europe Renaissance. On the way to a European civil society. Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen Werner Müller-Pelzer (ed.) (2015)
In addition, three further student presentations are published here: Nation state, new nationalism, separatism and the future of EU. Marine Broussot, Álvaro Boyero, Ania Kulakowska, Mercedes Taús, Eliza Vaş
Financial Crisis. José Antonio Mingot, Lucía Fernández, Javier Sastre
Turkey and EU Cristina Blaj, Ioana Delia Chilom
On March 27, 2015, Werner Müller-Pelzer gave the following lecture at the doctoral seminar at the Université Lille 3 ("Formation aux compétences interculturelles en milieu professionnel"): "Les entreprises face au défi de la diversité culturelle: Coopération - Cohésion - Cohérence".
Also published by the same author: "The role of corporeal communication in foreign language learning as intercultural experience", in: Witte, Arnd / Harden, Theo (eds.): Foreign Language Learning as Intercultural Experience. The Subjec-tive Dimension, Oxford etc., Peter Lang, 2015, 67-94. ISBN 978-3-0343-1879-2 "De la " cultural awareness " à la compréhension " corporelle "", in : Guenette, Alain Max / Mutaba-zi, Evalde / Pierre, Philippe / Von Overbeck Ottino, Saskia (eds.): Management interculturel, altérité et identités, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2014, 85-94. ISBN : 978-2-343-03834-6 "La Communication interculturelle. La contribution de la Nouvelle Phénoménologie de Hermann Schmitz", in: Gilles Louÿs, Gilles / Sauvage, Emmanuelle (eds.): De la singularité dans la communica-tion interculturelle. Approches transdisciplinaires, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2014, 183-192. ISBN : 978-2-343-03099-9
Soon to be published: "Interkulturelle Kompetenz - Welche praktischen Konsequenzen hat die anthropologische Wende?" In: Hiller, Gundula Gwenn / Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen / Vatter, Christoph / Wagner, Christian / Charrier, Landry / Dietrich-Chénel, Karin / Duchêne-Lacroix, Florence / Pailhès, Anne-Marie (eds.): Interkulturelle Kompetenz in deutsch-französischen Studiengängen: didaktische Konzepte, Methoden, Materialien, Wiesbaden, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. A long version of this article is available here:
Dortmund, June 2015 Werner Müller-Pelzer