Keynote address at the invitation of Energie Steiermark “Potentials of the Circular Economy”
BCSSS Managing Director, Stefan Blachfellner, guided the participants through the links between the relevant European policies and the resulting support structures, from the European Green Deal, the EU Action Plan for the Circular Economy, the EU Industrial Strategy, to the Austrian RTI initiative Circular Economy and the independent Circular Economy…
UNIDO: Global consultations on circular economy
Circular Economy Forum Austria of BCSSS participates in the discussions initiated by UNIDO for experts from Member States. The conversations serve to facilitate the exchange of best practices and innovations as well as the promotion and adoption of circular economy principles and practices by Member State industries.
BCSSS Board member Ray Ison publishes new book on the hidden power of systems thinking
In times of great societal changes and challenges such as climate change, the need for new ways of thinking and acting have become urgent. Together with campaigner and writer Ed Straw, BCSSS board member and IFSR president Ray Ison has published a new book to uncover “The Hidden Power of…
New lecture series by BCSSS visiting scholar Cadell Last on ‘Systems Science and Subjectivity’
Cadell Last, a philosopher and host of the School of Thinking at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium worked with the Bertalanffy Center for an extended period of time in 2019 as one of the first early career researchers the Center intends to support with its Next Generation Program. He…
The ISSS Conference 2019 – A buzzing hub for the BCSSS and scientists throughout the systems sciences
After both deep conversations and playful workshops at the American Society for Cybernetics Conference, Ray Ison (BCSSS Board member) and Angelika Schanda (BCSSS Program Manager) traveled south, from Vancouver, British Columbia to Corvallis, Oregon to attend the 63rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS). This…
Delegation from the Art Academy of Latvia show interest in systems science principles for design
On May 5, Master’s students from the Functional Design Department of the Art Academy in Riga, Latvia requested to visit the Bertalanffy Center for an introduction to systems science and design. They spent an internship of two months at hi-pe.at, design partner of the BCSSS, where they worked on pedestrian…
20th – 23rd January 2018. INCOSE International Workshop, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
INCOSE International Workshop Jacksonville, Florida, USA 20th – 23rd January 2018 Our higly valued Scientific Council member David Rousseau, leader of the BCSSS Research Group Systems Science and Philosophy and Founder and Director of the Centre for Systems Philosophy in Surrey, UK, will be one of the contributors during this…
“Systems Science: Value, Status, Scope & Principles”. A workshop by David Rousseau at the INCOSE EMEA Biennial Workshop
During this year’s INCOSE EMEA Biennial Workshop, held at the Congress Center Rosengarten in Mannheim Germany, from 19th to 20th September 2017, together with Gary Smith (Airbus Defence and Space) our valued BCSSS Scientific Council member David Rousseau conducted a half-day workshop on Systems Science. Rousseau presented the section on…