The future work of the Archive will focus mainly on the following items:

1. The Archive will establish a working library of phenomenology, which will aim to collect basic literature on and by major phenomenologists and basic reference works in phenomenology and related issues in contemporary philosophy.

2. The Archive will build up partnerships with major archives of phenomenology in Europe and other regions of the world and seek to incorporate electronic copies or duplicates of the major works from existing archives abroad to serve our colleagues in the Chinese-speaking world as well as other Asian scholars. In due course, the archival work will be extended to other materials that are relevant to our general interest.

3. In accordance with an agreement signed with the Philosophy Department of Peking University in 2003, the Archive will work closely with the Bibliotheca Phenomenologica at Peking University and reach out to other academic institutions in mainland China devoted to phenomenology or related research to foster academic cooperation, for example in the form of exchanging library resources and hosting mainland scholars for short-term research visits.

4. The Archive will also work closely with the Research Centre for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, founded and directed by colleagues in the Philosophy Department of the Chinese University, to organize conferences on relevant topics, thereby providing scholars of phenomenology from different parts of the world a platform for academic exchange and communication. More concretely, this will-include

	a) organizing international conferences on phenomenology on a non-regular basis (such as the conferences held at the Chinese University in 1996, 2000, and 2002 and the conference co-organized with Peking University in 2001),
	b) sending representatives to conferences organized by the Chinese Phenomenology Society (held regularly in different locations in China including Peking, Hangzhou, Zhongshan, Nanjing, Shanghai, Xian etc...),
	c) organizing national symposia for scholars from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong (like the symposium on Phenomenology and Taoist Philosophy in 2003 and on Phenomenology and Buddhist Philosophy in 2004),
	d) promoting and participating in the activities of PEACE (Phenomenology for East Asian CirclE) which the Department of Philosophy just inaugurated last year, and
	e) continually promoting and participating in the international conferences organized by the OPO (Organization of Phenomenological Organizations).

5. We will cooperate with major academic organizations in mainland China to foster editorial and translation work of important phenomenology literature and to organize the publication of books and journals, providing a publication venue for research works on topics related to phenomenology.

6. The Archive will work in collaboration with the Research Centre for Humanities Computing, which is also founded and directed by colleagues in the Philosophy Department of the Chinese University, to explore the possibility of setting up a web platform serving various phenomenology-related information, which might include online dictionaries and lexica, searchable electronic texts, multi-lingual web-searchable bibliographies of phenomenology literature and information databases covering the translation of philosophical terminology, philosophy-related images, and historical-geographical research in philosophy.

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