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…
Call for papers! International Conference of the System Dynamics Society 2020, Norway
The System Dynamics Society calls for your participation in the 38th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society 19 – 23 July 2020 Bergen, Norway Hindsight in 2020: Learning from the Past to Inspire the Future The 38th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society will honor the 20th anniversary…
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…
“Systems Thinking” at the First Summer School of Thinking by the Montparnasse Initiative
Stefan Blachfellner represented the BCSSS together with Helene Finidori at the first summer school program by the Montparnasse Initiative – School of Thinking, which was hosted by the Center for Research and Interdisciplinary (CRI) in Paris, France from 12th to 18th July 2018. The summer school focussed on the exploration…
BCSSS Research Group “Systems Medicine and Healthcare Systems” joined a promising programme during the ISSS2017 Vienna
In the framework of the ISSS2017 Vienna in July 2017 one of the conference days focused on “From Public Health to Health Systems”. Following that programme the BCSSS Research Group “Systems Medicine and Healthcare Systems” joined the day and Prof. Dr.Dr.Dr. Felix Tretter, leader of the research group, attended a…
BCSSS Member Yagmur Denizhan at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. A short review.
In April 2017 BCSSS Member Yagmur Denizhan visited the Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. She was invited by the International Center for Philosophy of Information, School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Xi’an Jiaotong University to give guest lectures in the fields of Information and Communication and on Simondon’s Theory…
Modeling health impacts for decision-making – On status and perspectives
In affiliation with the 9th European Public Health (EPH) Conference, Vienna, 9-12 Nov 2016, at 10 Nov, an evening colloquium took place in the Bertalanffy Center (BCSSS). The topic was: „Modeling health impacts for decision-making – On status and perspectives“ This workshop was organized as a joint venture between BCSSS…
Berlin 2015 | Manfred Drack | Bertalanffy on models
The Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin held from 9 to 10 September 2015 a workshop on the theory and conceptual history of the model. Manfred Drack, Fellow of the BCSSS, investigated the connections between Bertalanffy’s growth equations and dynamic morphology. Bertalanffy saw himself as a follower and in line…