About impEct and the publisher Dr. Werner Müller-Pelzer

The eJournal impEct can now look back on a history that will soon be measured in decades. It was founded in 2005 and continues to appear at irregular intervals. In the meantime, impEct is linked to the Research Center for Intercultural and European Studies, which is headed by Werner Müller-Pelzer. This explains the name change. For some years now, the acronym impEct has stood for Intercultural & Multidisciplinary Papers. European Contributions.

One innovation is the opening of the journal to contributions written in Russian.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, a complex open source environment has emerged, with which today's impEct merely combines the principle that scientific or scientific-propaedeutic texts, which have been written according to the rules of scientific work, can be published and copied free of charge.

In addition, impEct also serves as a newsletter of the Research Center for Intercultural and European Studies.

Dortmund, March 2024

The field of "intercultural studies" is determined, on the one hand, by society's interest in competence for global trade. On the other hand, developed countries see the need to find a common basis for understanding and coexistence under the pressure of immigration from very different cultures. In both cases, it is actually a matter of a transcultural interest in action that is based on prognostic knowledge. In contrast, less attention is paid to the scientific-theoretical foundation of a specific intercultural competence as the basis for understanding between cultures.

The field of "European studies", for its part, is primarily dealt with by political scientists and sociologists with an interest in examining the relationship between the European Union and national governments and societies. In both respects, there is a considerable need for concrete policy advice, which is also based on prognostic knowledge. The historical, cultural-anthropological and cultural-philosophical analyses of Europe are, however, little received beyond the narrow boundaries of the discipline. In particular, the identification of the European Union and Europe is dictated by political interests and is not scientifically tenable.

The Dortmund Research Center therefore aims to include historical, comparative, cultural anthropological and cultural and legal philosophical analyses.

The publication organ of the research center is impEct, Intercultural and Multidisciplinary Papers. European Contributions, which has been published annually since 2005.

Both thematic areas of the research center are at odds with established disciplines. This results in a matrix structure in which intercultural and European research directions overlap with various established academic disciplines. Of particular interest here is the clash between cultural studies and natural science methodology. The researchers who have come together currently cover interfaces with political science, economics, engineering, history, foreign languages, philosophy and law. There are also plans to publish "themed issues" of impEct in the future.

In addition, cooperation is to be intensified through the organization of joint symposia and the contributions considered are to be published in book form.

Dr. Werner Müller-Pelzer, Lecturer in Business French, Business Spanish and Interculturality (until 09/2014), Faculty of Business Studies, Fachhochschule Dortmund (Coordinator of the Research Unit)

Ingrid Barradas Bribiesca, M.A., Coordinator for International Affairs, División de Ciencias Económico Administrativas, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico

Pedro Crovetto Farias, M.A., Coordinator for Spain and Latin America, Business Spanish and Intercultural Studies, Faculty of Business Studies, Fachhochschule Dortmund, Germany

Dr. Jörg Eschenauer, Président du Département de la Formation Linguistique, Professeur, École des Ponts - ParisTech ; Président de l'UPLEGESS (Association of Language Lecturers at Business Schools and Universities), Paris, France

Dr. Péter Pál Kruzslicz, Directeur administratif, Université de Szeged, Direction des relations internationales, Centre universitaire francophone ; Faculté de droit et des sciences politiques, Institut d'études internationales et régionales, University of Szeged, Hungary

Vlad Mureşan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of the study program "International Relations and German Studies", Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Mariella Olivos Rossini, Ph.D., Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs, International Affairs, University ESAN, Lima; Executive Coordinator CLADEA (Association of Latin American Business Schools), Peru

Pilar Sánchez González, Ph.D. des., Profesora del área de Humanidades, ESIC Business & Marketing School; directora de Gamón Pumareta Asesores en Marketing, Madrid, Spain

2021 Conception of the MONTAIGNE program

2016 Doctoral Board / Member of the Doctoral Committee for Mariella Olivos Rossini: "Internationalization at home: Technology supported multicultural learning in Peru", Tilburg University.

10/2014 Retirement; continuation of the Research Center for Intercultural and European Studies

2011 Research Center for Intercultural and European Studies

2005 Editor of the electronic journal impEct

1990 Lecturer of Business French and Business Spanish at the Faculty of Business Studies at Fachhochschule Dortmund; responsible for the International Business study program, German-French and German-Spanish branch

1985 Second state examination for the teaching profession at grammar schools; teaching in adult education and schools; publishing editor at Harenberg-Verlag Dortmund

1983 Doctorate (Dr. phil.)

1974 First state examination for the teaching profession at grammar schools

1966 Studied Romance languages and literature (French, Spanish), philosophy, Protestant theology