Whether it is a question of building Europe, local development or business expansion, it must be agreed the search for a new kind of efficiency should be made through an alliance between social and economic forces.

The most productive economies are those in which the social dialogue is best organised and most fruitful. Many socio-economic actors, members of national parliaments, administrators and government ministers agree with us on this point.

Experiments are being set up in new ways of organising social relations within businesses and in the working environment in general, and new concepts are appearing. But we still have to turn this proliferation to good account. Reconcile experience in the field and intellectual contributions. Be on the lookout for what is being done, said and written and above all synthesise these ideas while encouraging exchanges between social actors, innovators and researchers.

This is the aim of Lasaire.