Philosopher Cadell Last researches human evolution and the role of subjective problematics in the anthropocene
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…
Ethical and Juridical Aspects on Human Digitalization in Health (HDIHA)
Concluding a very successful year for the BCSSS Research Groups ‘Human Digitalization’ as well as ‘Systems Medicine and Health Care Systems’, BCSSS Vice President Felix Tretter organized the sixth symposium in the series of Big Data and Health events on November 20 to 21. Since fall 2018, the group had…
Great interest in systemic perspectives by young changemakers at the Local Conference of the Youth Austria
This year’s Local Conference Of Youth Austria (LCOY), the Austrian Youth Climate Conference, in Vienna from 8 to 10th of November featured two sessions on systems thinking. The registration lists for the two sessions were already full in the early mornings, when most students had not yet registered for most…
Ladeja Godina Košir re-elected as Chair of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform
17 October 2019, Brussels. During the third meeting of The Coordination Group (CG) of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform (ECESP) the CG re-elected the Founder and Director of Circular Change and BCSSS Research Group Leader on Circular Economy Systems, Ladeja Godina Košir as its Chair for 2020. The BCSSS…
Integrative Systems Medicine: Comorbidity of diabetes and depression
On 22 to 23 October, BCSSS Vice President and Health Care Research Group leader Felix Tretter invited to a second round of his expert workshop on the issue of Systems Medicine. In the previous meeting in April 2019, the group discussed the basics of an “Organismal Systems Medicine” (OSM) as…
Stefan Blachfellner and Thomas Wallner invited speakers to the Magna Logistics Days 2019
Together with BCSSS board member Thomas Wallner, BCSSS managing director Stefan Blachfellner was an invited speaker to the Magna Logistics Days 2019 in Schloss Seggau, Leibnitz, Austria, on October 15-16. The Magna Logistics Days are used by exhibitors from all over Europe in the areas of Transport & Logistics Service…
Issues of Assessment in Human Digitalization in Health Affairs (HDIHA)
From 8 to 9 October 2019, BCSSS Vice President Felix Tretter continued his efforts to bring together scientists, medical professionals and big data experts as part of the BCSSS Research Groups ‘Human Digitalization’ as well as ‘Systems Medicine and Health Care Systems’. Since fall 2018, the group had been examining…
BCSSS Circular Economy Systems team contributes to the Academy for Circular Economy in Belgrade
BCSSS Research leaders Ladeja Godina Košir, Karin Huber-Heim and Stefan Blachfellner have been invited to contribute to the co-design of the ACE Circular Economy Academy in Belgrade, Serbia, after the successful 4th Circular Change conference in May 2019 in Slovenia. Together the set the tone and opened the Academy with…
Winners of the Austrian National Award for Design show great promise for a sustainable future
On 25th of september 2019, the Austrian National Award for Design (Staatspreis Design) was awarded by the Austrian Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs organized by our partners designaustria. BCSSS managing director Stefan Blachfellner and program manager Angelika Schanda were invited to attend the ceremony and to discover some of…
BCSSS Programme Manager Angelika Schanda elected as board member at ISSS
In July 2019, confirmation votes were cast for the new board of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), making Angelika Schanda the new VP for Membership and PR. She has taken on this new role as part of her ongoing efforts to promote systems societies as well as…
Green Energy Lab Themenfeld-Workshop: Kreislaufwirtschaft in Energiesystemen der Zukunft
Mitte Juli 2021 wird Green Energy Lab zu jedem der vier Themenschwerpunkte der 4. Ausschreibung „Schaufenster Energieregion“ einen thematischen Feldworkshop durchführen. Für den zweiten thematischen Workshop am 13. Juli 2021 ist das Thema „Circular Economy in Energy Systems“ geplant. Im ersten Teil des Themenworkshops stellt das Green Energy Lab den…
BCSSS goes ‚Out of the Box‘ – Celebrating 40 years Ars Electronica in Linz
Ars Electronica is an internationally renowed Austrian institution connecting the arts, technology, science and society. On 5th of September, BCSSS managing director Stefan Blachfellner and BCSSS program manager Angelika Schanda were invited to visit the festivities in Linz, Austria. The birthday party was followed by this year’s festival with the…