We live in a world subject to rapid transformations. Underlying these broad social changes, however, it is possible to identify specific social and cultural trends, which affect people and institutions alike.
The Social Trends Institute is a non-profit research center that offers institutional and financial support to academics of all fields who seek to make sense of emerging social trends and their effects on human communities.
STI focuses its research on four subject areas: Family, Bioethics, Culture and Lifestyles and Corporate Governance. STI organizes Experts Meetings, which bring together various scholars to present and discuss each others' original research in an academic forum. These meetings are not open to the public and are intended to foster open intellectual dialogue between scholars from all over the world, of various academic backgrounds, disciplines and beliefs. At times, STI helps to publish a collection of the conference papers in a single volume, revised and reviewed in light of the meeting’s discussion.
STI’s sole aim is to promote research and scholarship of the highest academic standards. In so doing, we hope to make a scholarly contribution towards understanding the varying and complex social trends that are intertwined with the modern world. We are committed, then, to that which makes such scholarship possible: intellectual freedom, openness to a diversity of viewpoints and a shared commitment to serve our common humanity.
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