Unity through Diversity. Education for a New Europe: The Multicultural Heritage between Romania and Serbia and its Benefits for a Common Educational Policy

AbstractThe task of integrating the new comers into European Union at educational level is approached almost only through a general political discourse. Because of its technicality some key features could be left outside. Our study could be an advance in the field of studies upon cultural and educational policies regarding general European Union's enlargement vision. The research was made in the common traditional region of Romania and Serbia, the historical Banat area and it is combining an empirical with a theoretical and historical research. The results indicate that at cultural and educational level the multicultural heritage from this historical common symbolic space could be not only a boost for a quicker integration into EU of these two countries but also a positive start for the building of future Euro regions in cultural terms. We made some recommendations about the way in which this common symbolic space should be preserved in the future by indicating the need for a more flexible educational policy for the Serbian minority on the one hand, and for the Romanian minority form Serbia on the other