MISSION

 

The project is plausible because the political and economic processes of integration need the best available cultural base. The idea is not to unify or uniform the cultural differences in some kind of European amalgamation, but just the opposite: to try to emphasize both the diversity as well as the areas of common, shared values. Without recognition of this dual nature of the European community it will be difficult to build confidence, which should have, ideally, preceded the political and economic integration. Without the conscience of differences shared as such the cultural integration founded upon common denominators may be perceived as a threat to the individual and smaller cultural identities.

 

The project has a potential of:

 

- uniting some similar and yet scattered European initiatives or ambitions
- mobilizing the public opinion as a support to political and economic uniting initiatives
-  gathering significant popular support that other organizations do not have or cannot achieve
- embarking on wide reaching activities stemming from the new reality of European identity born on diversity and thriving on reality of European citizenship 

 

The symbol of the bridge as a clear and a two-fold message is in tune with these intentions. The bridge unites the differences but, by its shear existence, it also emphasizes them: it is only that through comparison and exchange these differences can become substantiated.

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Great European personalities, that two or more cultures find (to an extent and in some ways) as belonging to their corpus, can be used as a proof that disputes in “ownership” have little sense in the domain of culture and heritage. Their sometimes universal dimension, let alone European one, renders them more obviously as bridges between different parties than a cause for confrontation.
 
The concept of the project is open in nature and can receive, in some predictable positive development, other areas of shared values.