Globalisation and Europeanisation processes are leading to new types of interdependence, exchange and dependency relationships between societies, economies and states, some within Europe and some worldwide. Against this background, interculturality is gaining central importance as a problem of action and organisation.

In the course of the opening up and dissolution of boundaries in modern societies, spaces for experience and action, problems and new types of conflict situations as well as options for organisation are emerging, which are the subject of the research and knowledge transfer activities of CINTEUS.

The diverse research activities of CINTEUS members can be thematically assigned to three interdisciplinary research fields: globalisation, Europeanisation and European integration and interculturality.