During the time frame of the lectures cycle Dialogosofía —in which the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) participated in the role of co-convener entity, together with the Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst (KAAD) and the Bank of the Republic (Colombia)—, Prof. Dr. Eric Pommier gave the first confererence entitled “El problema de la democracia ambiental. Responsabilidad y deliberación”. This cycle, organized by the researcher groups GIFSE and KAIROS of the Philosophy School at the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia, began successfully with the presence of more than 250 people attending, with simultaneous translation in sign language and with the broadcasting of the UPTC radio.

Prof. Dr. Helmut Heit, from the Tongji University (Shanghai), who has focused his main work in Greek ancient philosophy, as well as in the 19th and 20th-century philosophy (specially in Nietzsche's thought), and who founded in the year 2008 the Berliner Nietzsche-Colloquium, is now a new research member of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic).

Prof. em. Dr. Werner Stegmaier has recently joined the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) as a new research member. Professor Stegmaier is a quite recognized German philosopher, specialist in Nietzsches work, as well as in the metaphysical and ancient tradition. Since 2009 and until 2017 he was the co-editor of the Nietzsche-Studien and the International Yearbook for Nietzsche Research.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Urs Sommer, expert in Nietzsche’s work, director since 2004 of the Forschungsstelle „Nietzsche- Kommentar“ der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, and researcher of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), published in 2017 his book Nietzsche und die Folgen. Stuttgart, J.B. Metzler.

Prof. Dr. Werner Stegmaier, ex-director and founder of the Philosophy Institute of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt- Universität Greifswald, who for years has been professor and researcher in the universities of Stuttgart and Bonn, and who works since 1999 as co- publisher of the Nietzsche-Studien. Internationales Jahrbuch für die Nietzsche-Forschung, published in 2016 the book Orientierung im Nihilismus – Luhmann meets Nietzsche. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter.

Prof. Dr. Michele Borrelli, researcher of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), university professor for more than one decade at the universitites of Gießen, Wuppertal, Frankfurt and Nürnberg in Germany, and currently professor of General Pedagogy at the Department of Humanistic Studies by the Università della Calabria (Italy), has recently published his book Nuovo umanesimo o nichilismo. Grandezza e miseria dell’Occidente (which includes an essay by Karl-Otto Apel). Trieste, Asterios Editore, 2017.

Prof. Dr. Dean Komel, researcher of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), founding member of the Central and Eastern Europe Conference on Phenomenology, as well as the initiator and president of the Phenomenological Society of Ljubljana, published in 2012 Den Nihilismus verwinden: ein slowenisches Postscript zum 20. Jahrhundert (Nordhausen, Traugott Bautz).

Edwin Velasco, member of the supporting group in the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) has received the doctoral scholarship from the Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst (KAAD). Edwin Velasco will make his doctoral studies at Freiburg im Breisgau under the direction of the CeNic Professor Dr. Andreas Urs-Sommer. The International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) supported this process in every of its phases, therefore all its members feel grateful with the KAAD for the recognition of this scholarship to one of our most active participants.