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The purpose of the IDTC is to promote, publish and share World cooperation in the field of the History of sciences, Epistemology and Historical epistemology of sciences, Philosophy of science/Foundations & Education/Teaching science, Nature of science (hereafter all of them called as topics).

The topics are understood in the broadest interdisciplinary sense and in agreement with DLMPST and DHST objectives and rules.

The IDTC aims to:

Provide a high–level interdisciplinary World forum for research in the topics.
Provide a high-level standard of education/research participating in study programs, namely lecturing, workshops, supervising, as far as possible.
Assist in the better and more informed teaching of the topics as a subject in universities and secondary schools where, particularly, increasingly Nature of science is a component of national science curricula.
Promote the utilization of topics in the university and school science courses, in programs for the preparation of science teachers, and in museums and other informal institutions and locations.
Show how the topics can contribute positively to a better understanding, and hopefully resolution, of some of the major social, cultural and ideological issues with which people around the world are engaged.
Combine the approaches of the natural sciences & humanities in the investigation of the topics.
Establish and promote co-operation between teaching/educators specialist, historians and philosophers of science, either individually, or as members of institutions and societies dedicated to the topics.

Article II, IDTC STATUS, approved 2017, December