Representatives of five international organisations met on the occasion of the 8ème Congrès International de l’Union Européenne de Systemique in Brussels from 20 to 22 October: • Andrée Piecq, President of the European Union for Systemics (UES) • Gerhard Chroust, Secretary General of the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR)…

The BCSSS has organised two events on the occasion of the anniversary of Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s birthday.   • Public Lecture David Pouvreau, author of “The Dialectical Tragedy of the Concept of Wholeness – Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s Biography Revisited” (2009), speaks about General systemology as founded and developed by Ludwig…

Robert Trappl, Professor emeritus at the Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence at the Medical University of Vienna, was the convenor and chief organiser of the EMCSR held in Vienna every 2 years since 1972. After 20 conferences he handed over the chair to Wolfgang Hofkirchner who stepped in on…

Bertalanffy Anniversary Conference 2001 The very first call to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Bertalanffy’s Birthday were essentially concerned with the conceptual of General Systems Weltanschauung as an indispensable framework needed for helping the humans to search how to make sustainable the dynamics of their civilization. The first announcement was…

Professor John Collier (Philosophy and Ethics) informed us about a Post-Doctoral Research Scholarships at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) open to a broad range of proposals in information theory, complex adaptive systems, related areas in biology, cognitive science and language. Applications are invited for Post-Doctoral Research Scholarships for 2012….

Dr. Marshall W. Allen generously passed to the BCSSS the entire collection of Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s letters to Joseph Henry Woodger (1894–1981) which he formerly received from Woodger in person for his respective studies. Thus the archive was supplemented by adding 74 letters from Ludwig von Bertalanffy, 7 from Maria…

Every 3 years the BCSSS holds its General Assembly. It’s open to every member. Venue: Department of Theoretical Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Biozentrum, Althanstraße 14 (UZA 1), 1090 Wien Schedule: 15:30

Lectures by Michel Saint-Germain and Franz Hörmann‘ The Bertalanffy Center invites to attend the 2 lectures: – Michel Saint-Germain, Professor emeritus, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa: „The result-oriented organisation: a critical look from a Bertalanffian perspective“ (paper, presentation) – Franz Hörmann, Associate Professor, Department of Finance, Accounting and Statistics,…