Costa Rica Center at Osnabrück University

The Center holds a prominent position among the international cooperations of the University of Osnabrück and is mainly devoted to the research on future-oriented, value-based, intercultural and social issues and tasks, focusing primarily on the following fields: teaching and education, peace, economy, environment, biodiversity and sustainability.
Accordingly, the Center’s members come from disciplines and subjects like biology, educational studies, geography, Catholic theology, psychology, Romance studies, sports science and kinesiology as well as economics.
The comparison of two democracies that mirror the different cultural contexts of Europe and Latin America, Costa Rica and Germany, is of particular importance for the development and the comparison of recognised standards of intercultural relevance.