Our Point of Departure

It is our conviction that complex economic, social and ecological problems, whether acute or chronic, cannot be solved by academic research bounded by the conventional constraints of strict rationality. The players involved in coping with such problems, interacting with one another, are significantly influenced by their cultural values and by psychological influences of a cognitive and emotional kind. Unprecedented problems call for qualities of originality and flexibility that are inculcated in case method, but mostly not in conventional pedagogic instruction. WACRA EUROPE e.V. recognizes that the solution, in time, of complex economic, social and ecological problems requires the interlinking of research, teaching and policy advice. In this transdisciplinary process the case method has a vital role to play.