Abstract

The research described in this article is in the area of expository writing and was conducted at a European University (University of Granada, Spain). It is part of the on-going work in the area of linguistics and cognition and encompasses social and cultural aspects. The article reports on findings of its research and aims to identify cross-cultural and technological competencies required for the 21st Century. In these societies multicultural values, participation in production media, social exchange and multilingual written communication competences will be spread through new computer technologies. In order to fulfil the social exigencies created by new communication ways, the collaboration of research groups for designing and applying international research projects is needed. This research line is innovative because is based on the collaboration with different European University Institutions on the new projects which are being developed to design strategies for the developing of cognitive, multilingual and technological competences simultaneously. These strategies are coherent with the research projects carried out by different research groups at an international level, which are presented in this manuscript.