The International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) invited Manfred Drack to give a talk on: Weiss, Bertalanffy, Riedl – A Viennese School of System Thinking in Biology

Chroust and Hofkirchner attended the first General Assembly of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences held in Chengdu, Sichuan, China from 25. to 27.10.2010. The School of Business and Administration of the Sichuan University hosted the event. Chroust and Hofkirchner gave lectures, Chroust on „Systemic aspects of choosing…

The board of the BCSSS unanimously appointed Ervin László and Edgar Morin members of the Scientific Council of the BCSSS. They are the first ones appointed to the council. Ervin László published in 1972 „The Relevance of General Systems Theory“ for Ludwig von Bertalanffy on his 70th birthday, „The Systems View…

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) approved a three years grant proposal by Manfred Drack in co-operation with the BCSSS. The title of the project is: Systems in Biology.

Morin E. 2010: Die Methode: Die Natur der Natur. Vienna: Turia + Kant. German translation of Edgar Morin’s first volume of „La Méthode“. Translator: RE Zimmermann. Ed: W. Hofkirchner.

Beijing, China, 21-24 August 2010 The Bertalanffy Center is, together with other institutions, co-organiser of a conference held in Beijing, China, 21-24 August 2010. The topic is „Towards a New Science of Information“. The background of the conference is the growing movement for the founding of a transdisciplinary field dealing…

Manfred Drack was invited for a PostDoc position at Prof. Olaf Wolkenhauser ’s Department of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics in Rostock and is now, after one year, back in Austria. He tried to make the early system approaches useful for today’s systems biology.

The Executive Committee of the recently founded International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS) decided during its meeting in Waterloo to designate Wolfgang Hofkirchner for membership of the academy. IASCYS is an initiatve of the IFSR

The BCSSS members Gerhard Chroust, Günther Ossimitz and Stefan Blachfellner take part at the Pernegg Conversations 2010 (10.4 – 15.4.2010).

20th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research Stefan Blachfellner and Günther Ossimitz present co-authored papers at the EMCSR 2010 (6. – 9.4.2010): „Creating Sustainable Futures by Innovation from within“: Radical Change is in Demand of Radical Innovation? PDF Metanoia and Aporias: Linking Systems Thinking with Yin/Yang Daoism. PDF Winn…

„… aber vom Menschen wissen wir nichts. Zur systemischen Anthropologie Ludwig von Bertalanffys“ appeared in Transformationen der kritischen Anthropologie (see Publications).