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If the universities intend to be valid actors in sustainable development they have first to recognize the emergence of a new type of knowledge—transdisciplinarity knowledge—that is complementary to traditional, disciplinary knowledge. This process implies a necessary multidimensional opening of the University: towards the civil society, towards the other places of production of the new knowledge, towards cyber-space-time, towards the aim of universality, and towards a redefinition of the values governing its own existence.
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Talk at the International Congress “Universities’ Responsabilities to Society”, International Association of Universities, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, November 12–14, 1997.
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This paper was presented at the International Association of Universities (IAU)Footnote 1 Fourth Mid-Term conference ‘The Universities’ Responsibilities to Society’, held at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 12–14 November 1997.
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Nicolescu, B. (2018). The Transdisciplinary Evolution of the University Condition for Sustainable Development. In: Fam, D., Neuhauser, L., Gibbs, P. (eds) Transdisciplinary Theory, Practice and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93743-4_6
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