Call for papers! IRDO 2020, Maribor. Personal and Social Responsibility for Sustainable Future
Call for papers! 15th IRDO International Science and Business Conference 4 – 5 Juni 2020 Maribor, Slovenien Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung und aktuelle Herausforderungen 2020: PERSONAL AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE IRDO – Das Institute for the Development of Social Responsibility, in Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Maribor lädt Wissenschaftler, Manager, Experten…
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…
Vienna 2017 | Workshop | Systems Approaches to Information Ethics III
The third meeting of the project “Systems Approaches to Information Ethics” was held in Vienna 13-17 November 2017. The topics included: foundational questions of systems approaches (evolutionary theory, emergentist systemism and normativity; information in the context of Being and non-being, actuality and potentiality, and existence and non-existence); problems of Information…
An Integrated Systems View to Co-Create an Effective European Digital Multimodal Transport System
BCSSS Managing Director Stefan Blachfellner, appointed Special Adviser of the European Commission for Mobility and Transport „to prepare advice on infrastructure, data, apps, services, networks in the context of multi-modality” visited Brussels on Monday, October 2nd, 2017, to present the second draft of his research report „An Integrated Systems View…
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…
Vienna 2017 | Workshop | Systems Approaches to Information Ethics I
Within the framework of the Emergent Systems, Information and Society group, Tomáš Sigmund was invited to the Center to start the joint research project „Systems Approaches to Information Ethics“. In a three-day workshop during his stay in Vienna (23-27 January, 2017), Soft Systems Methodology (Checkland) and Critical Systems Heuristics (Ulrich) were…
Stefan Blachfellner, Leader of the BCSSS Research Group „Socio-Ecological Systems and Design“ appointed as Special Advisor of the European Commission for Mobility and Transport
In March 2016 Stefan Blachfellner, BCSSS Managing Director and leader of the BCSSS Research Group „Socio-Ecological Systems and Design„, was appointed as Special Advisor of the European Commission for Mobility and Transport „to prepare advice on infrastructure, data, apps, services, networks in the context of multi-modality”. Stefan Blachfellner is…