With
the decision of the European Council to start the process of expanding the
Union, it appears as if the Information Society can contribute to the expression
of one common European citizenship, founded on the acquaintance, the mutual
understanding of the cultures of our continent and the knowledge of our culturesī
common characteristics in respect of the diversities, minorities and their
cultural roots.
Today
the concept of culture extends to the popular culture, to the industrial
massculture, to the culture of everyday life. The culture is considered a
powerful motive for the society. A factor of creativity, of vitality, and of
cohesion and dialogue. Therefore culture is a key concept in order to really
enter, with full authority, the global Information Society. Where the dialogue
to realize this must find the adequate humus of several social structures to be
harmonic, and to allow the EU to answer the challenges of the 21st century.
Challenges which Europe must tackle in the near future. The EU is now in a
crucial phase of its common history, with the foundation of the EMU, and the
perspective of an expansion whose extension doesnīt have any similarities in
our European history.
If the instruction is a key factor for the individual personal realization,
facilitating the access in the working life and promoting the sense of active
belongings to the society, Treaty of Amsterdam is explicit in regard to: it
confers to the Union the responsibility "to promote the development of the
level possible elevated cognitive" for Union's people "through a wide
access to the instruction and its permanent modernization more". Treaty it
sanctions the notion of "Union's citizenship" as complement of that
one of national citizenship: the instruction is, therefore, called to carry out
a fundamental in building an United Europe and competitive role, characterized
from the inner solidarity and the opening towards the world. In Agenda 2000, in
which is traced an action outline in order to enter in XXI century, the European
Commission proposes to translate in practical such guidelines making of the
"union of the acquaintance" one of the main objectives of
communitarian politics of the years to come.
Until now, the school has lived as a closed system, while today open communities
of learning moves towards one. Therefore in order to plan and to direct such
substantial transformation of the school it's necessary to start a process of
"assisted self-formation", whose value will correspond to the
effective ability to sharing the initiative, so that it can be finalized to
directly affect the innovation of the educational enterprises way to operate.
To such purpose, we remember that the passage between the industrial society and that post-manufacturer of the information and the acquaintance - with
the use of communication systems interactive data transmission - has like essential data the process of automation of the production that has definitively
changed to the division of job between unskilled work and intellectual work in
the society. This knowledge is but indispensable, and goes promoted, in
particular in the educational enterprise, where the new generations are formed
so that they do not turn out not prepared in acting for the realization of their
plan of life.
In the society of the total and interactive information everyone will be
connected and able to communicate with everybody else, in real time. The new
technologies data transmissions are changing radically not only the world of
communications, and therefore the way with which the persons they are spoken and
meant, but also the methods and the instruments of job, learning and
entertainment. In this third millennium complex society, the promotion and
participation possibilities will be extraordinary, but also the exclusion risks,
for entire cultures and generations with economic and social problems of enormous capacity.
Finally
the necessity is delineated to estimate the resistance to change. The cultural
psychological incompatibility, prejudices, the environmental uneasiness, etc.
that they make from deterrent of this process of social-economic transformation
of the industrialized countries, since the societies that will remain behind in
this process of change, will be found rear in the development of the globalization
of the economies and consequently they will cover a marginal role
in the international division of the productive job.
The American psychologist Abraham H. Maslow characterizes in five bands the
fundamental and common needs to all the human beings. First of having to be
satisfied they are those physiological ones, while, last in order the need of
self-realization appears that pushes the individual to promise in order to
become "what it feels of being able to be". Such needs follow a
succession order: to the first level a sufficient satisfaction must be found
before passing to the second that, if satisfied, allows to pass to the third and
therefore via. And man's primary physiological need is food. Need that, if
satisfied, concurs to find the just charge for more and more high motivations.
But the food is also an occasion for meetings and in order to make festivity. From Omero to Boccaccio, Leonardo to Kant, Tolstoj to Rossini,
Neruda, Calvino, Oldenburg: through the testimonies of the literature and the historical shapes art evolution of the alimentary culture, uses and
customs of the men to table, pleasures and displeasures, encounter and crashes, have made of banquet an image to speculate of the society.
The
food is so important in life that it has a fundamental role also in religion. In
the New Testament, as an example, there are at least four moments in which the
instruction of Jesus is connected to food: The wedding of Canaan, when Jesus
transforms the water into wine; the multiplication of breads and the fish; the
last supper and the supper of Emmaus.
Behind the flavours, to it smells, hide so much meant; behind the taste to seat to table, but also to be behind the stoves, a driven in weft of symbols
exists and languages. In fact, every time, place, civilization, has given importance to the food making of the very precise choices, processing the
bakings and determinating the approaches. Not only, it has made instrument of communication, encounter, thought, sharing, negotiation, integration.
The history of the feeding is a rich history of surprise, of alimentary civilizations that they change, a world of tastes, flavours and scents still
all to discover. A world that possesses its history naturally, its uses and customs, its artists, its legends, traditions, and because not, its heroes,
scientists, philosophers and poets.
The feeding, therefore, must be considered like the fundamental element for the total health of an individual. This was the conviction of Hippocras by
Cos (460-370 b.C.) and then of Epicure by Samo (341- 270 b.C.), the first one rendered account of how much the health depends in fundamental way from
the brain regulator of the stimulus of hunger and of satiety, while the second, saying "the man is those that eats", began to think that the
atoms and their aggregations which is composed the human being are the responsible
of dynamics of the life. These ancient ones premised make us to apprehend like today, beginning from such cognitive sources, are joints to think that
a system living is like a regulated biochemical reactor from two types of energy, that extracted from the alimony and that relative one to the
information system.
The "complexity" of the alimentary culture in Europe, therefore, like friendly point of encounter for a creative cooperation between enterprises,
schools, local centres of formation, university, agencies, expert and - not last -families in community rising that succeeds in contaminated of good
common praxes.
Innovative behaviours, before never practiced, can quickly rise: in a group it can be counted on the pressure that the group can exercise on the single one
and the imitation and the emulation can accelerate the acquisition of new culture.
And if it is true that to table they collapse the barriers, the alimentary
culture will make as glue several the actors of the network inaugurating a
virtuous circuit.
The
aim of the Project is to integrate and strengthen the national actions in
respect of the diversity, and to promote the progression of the citizens towards
one Cognitive Society, implementing new technologies of communication in the
instruction and the lifelong learning.
All
this through the dissemination of the alimentary habits - from Northern Europe
to the Mediterranean Countries - in order to characterize the usable criteria of
a correct feeding in all the involved Countries. The main objective is really
attainable to all the age groups through the most powerful instrument of
Internet that, in the Cognitive Society, becomes an innovative writing desk for
pupils and teachers.
This
will be realized by implementing an Internet homepage - a shared system for
production and information - that, through a rich database of products and
typical plates of the several cultures of the European Countries,
and the argument on the new frontiers of the feeding tied to the biotechnologies,
will constitute a winning and familiar stimulus to the dialogue, to the
discussion and to the collective knowledge.
It will be possible to converse on line with experts,
families and students of several Countries exchanging - through the network -
opinions and experiences, documents and materials, and realizing tests on line.
The
offered possibility to communicate with partners endowed with various
standpoints and attitudes, and the studentsī talent to open themselves to new
acquaintances will contribute to the full immersion of the participants in the
cultural roots of the other Countries, savouring various habits and customs that,
in any case, will strengthen the significance of the European citizenship by the
objective of:
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