Mission statement
The Nexus Institute looks at the European cultural heritage in a social, philosophical andartistic context. The Institute is renowned for the quality with which it offers insight into contemporary issues and seeks to give shape to an informed debate. Nexus aims at erudition coupled with tolerance; it is opposed all forms of narrowmindedness such as sectarianism and chauvinism; it seeks neither the misery of knowing nothing nor the arrogance of knowing all. The Nexus Institute’s mission is to act as a leading international centre for intellectual reflection and to inspire the Western cultural and philosophical debate. Founded in 1994 by Rob Riemen, the Institute is widely acknowledged for the quality with which it offers insight into contemporary issues through its conferences, lectures and publications and seeks to give shape to an informed dialogue between decision-makers and the world of ideas.

The main platforms for demonstrating the Nexus Institute’s high-level intellectual capacity,for communicating ideas to the public, for raising new issues, and for launching debates are:

– the annual Nexus Lectures,
– the annual Nexus Conferences,
– the publications of the Nexus Library and Journal Nexus (in Dutch!).
- Nexus Masterclasses and Symposia

The jubilee issue Nexus 50 – Europees humanisme in fragmenten. Grammatica van een ongesproken taal appears in 2008. Over fifty illustrious intellectuals contribute an essay in which the contemporary relevance of European humanism is investigated and tested.This hardbound edition consists of almost 800 pages. Its impressive diversity makes this volume a rich contribution to the reflection on the meaning and range of European humanism as a modern ideal of civilization.

A report in pdf  'Nexus Institute 1994-2008' can be downloaded. If you would like to learn more about the Nexus journal and the Nexus Institute, please visit the website www.nexus-institute.nl.