21 Romanou Melodou str.
85133 Rhodes
Greece
- Heritage
- International/Cultural relations
- Others
- Research
Our mission is to highlight the societal particularities of the multicultural environment of Rhodes island, Greece in its history and present as well as form socially sustainable ideas for the future.
Towards that mission our objectives are:
1. The conduct of scientific research in humanities and social sciences in Rhodes.
2. The facilitation of scientific research in Rhodes of researchers from abroad.
3. The facilitation of networking of Rhodian researchers with counterparts from abroad.
4. The participation of Rhodes Project SCE in networks of research, technology and innovation.
5. The widest possible dissemination of scientific research from and in Rhodes.
6. The alleviation of unemployment of social scientists in Greece.
Running:
1. Oral History in Rhodes.
- A database that gathers the recordings of Life Narrative interviews with older Rhodians.
2. Understanding Diversity in Rhodes: Traditional and New Others
- A research conducted with the Department of Primary Education of the University of Aegean on the way that the local society can better integrate the migration flows
3. The yearly colloquium of Rhodes Project SCE
4. An online bibliographical catalogue for Rhodes
Completed:
1. Dodecanesians in Rimini Battalion
- The history of Dodecanesians who fought in Italy during the allied operation Oliva.
2. Colonial state, society and the underground economy in Italian Rhodes 1912-1943
- A research conducted with the University of Teesside on the way that black economies support state building processes.
Rhodes Project SCE will enrich the Greek Network of Anna Lindh foundation with an innovative structure that conceptualises the production of scientific knowledge in humanities and social sciences beyond the traditional academia.
Being both an enterprise and a non-for-profit legal person, Rhodes Project SCE can successfully balance in two sectors, giving by that renewed insights in their collaboration and consequantly at the civil society. At the same time due to its mission and objectives Rhodes Project SCE can support the cause of Anna Lindh foundation by contributing to that new tools, either financial or operational.
Finally, Rhodes Project SCE will support the admission of its strategic partners, namely universities, organisations and foundations in the UK, Italy and Greece in the Anna Lindh network.
Due to the mission of Rhodes Project SCE it fits naturally in the Anna Lindh Foundation network.
At the same time the aforementioned objectives of Rhodes Project SCE will only be better served through the vast network of Anna Lindh foundation.
Rhodes, is a "drop" of the Euro-Mediterranean ocean. Therefore, it contains all its ingredients but in small quantities. We as "students" of Rhodes will be greatly benefitted by being able to see the wider image; namely the actual Euro-Mediterranean dialogue.