About the Project

ENGLOBE is a projected network of researchers dealing with Europe’s approach to the process of globalization. With its thematic aims, ENGLOBE addresses the strategic objective 8.4 "Europe in the World" in the FP7- Cooperation Work Programm.

ENGLOBE is a network in the Humanities and it is routed in the newly emerging supradisciplinary field of Global History. ENGLOBE develops historical perspectives on changing interactions and interrelations between Europe and other world regions, thus promoting an understanding of the cultural and historical dimensions of current globalization processes. ENGLOBE starts out from the basic hypothesis that in the future, in contrast to the past, globalization will no longer be a process dominated by Europe. Nonetheless, the European Enlightenment is crucial for developing a complex historical understanding of globalization processes past and present, being at the same time the historical period where globalization questions arose, a project with aims like equal human rights, and a technological and knowledge based secular society.

The ENGLOBE training programme co-operates with existing European research and education programmes as the CLIOHRES-network of excellence, the CLIOH-World network or the CompaRaisons-Erasmus Intensive Programme. With its scientific and training objectives, ENGLOBE will work towards overcoming the narrow perspective of the often evoked “clash of cultures” in order to help managing global conflicts on the basis of a reflected intercultural communication. For these aims, extra-European universities and globally operating European cultural institutes have been won as associated partners in ENGLOBE. With their help, impact and career opportunities of ENGLOBE ESR will not only lie in the new academic field, in which they will be pioneers, but also in the field of cultural policies as well as global management in the private sector where questions of intercultural competences and communication are of a rising importance.