John Erpenbeck – a physicist by training, a writer who from time to time takes up and worthily continues the family tradition, a notorious and effective deep and broad thinker on matters deeply related to the humanities, a well-known and much sought-after forward and lateral thinker on educational issues and, finally, an inescapable authority on competence measurement and development! In short, the verdict after seventy years of being a citizen of the earth must be: Interdisciplinarity, openness of thought in both how and what, creativity in science and art, impact and respect in the academic, artistic, entrepreneurial and social fields – John Erpenbeck has truly been more than guilty of all these.
The present volume, published in his honour on his birthday, is intended to give a small hint of his activity as a leading thinker on the concept of competence.