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Art & Science Endowment Trust Charter (ASET Charter)§1ASET Stiftung1, is an independent, wholly non-profit entity, supporting academic, scientific research programs with an objective of advancing the boundaries of knowledge in comparative studies across major fields of research in Humanities and Linguistics, including Archaeology, Conservation Science, History of Science, History of Art, Heritage Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Political Economy and Commercial and Trade History and Philology. §2ASET Stiftung’s primary objective is to develop and support advanced scholarly research programmes, promoting the knowledge, appreciation, and greater understanding of the arts and material cultures of the civilizations and peoples who spoke2 any branch of the Indo-European and Semitic family language groups.3 This includes the corresponding civilisations, cultures, and people who have come into contact with them through commerce. §3The focus of the activities of ASET Stiftung is based upon one primary mission: advancing scholarship and academic research within a Higher Education framework with an interdisciplinary approach to the major fields of comparative research, contributing to a greater understanding of the trans-cultural diffusion of human knowledge, ‘science’4, and linguistics, especially among the civilizations that spoke any branch of the Indo-European or Semitic family language groups, including the civilisations and cultures that came into contact with them through trade and commerce or by any other means of contact, facilitating the diffusion of ‘science’ and linguistics. §4ASET Stiftung, its Directors and Research Fellows will facilitate, encourage, and provide the means for initiating, developing, and supporting research projects and programmes, not only across major fields of research in Humanities and Linguistics, as described in paragraph 1. above, but also in other relevant disciplines and fields of studies that will contribute via educational and academic means, not only to the primary objective of this Charter, but also to the provisions generally described in §52 of the AO for non-profit communal purposes (gemeinnützige Zwecke) of the Federal Republic of Germany.5 ASET Legal CounselDonald Black, J.D.Counsel, U.S. and English Law![]()
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