Reconstructing the multiple ways and manners in which human beings, goods, artefacts, ideas have circulated through 17th century Europe and how they have been differently elaborated and appropriated in different areas and countries; stressing the mutability and permeability of political borders to different cultural influences and to effective circulations of human beings and artefacts; promoting the knowledge of the European baroque cultural heritage. Activities include collecting historical data, realising an integrated system of dessimination to achieve a deeper historical consciousness of the European cultural heritage, creating a permanent European Institute for the Baroque Cultural heritage, constructing an intgrated network among scholars dealing with the Baroque age; organising exhibitions, tourist circuits and radio emissions; elaborating a kit of the young historian to reach the younger audience.