Today, the crowdfunding campaign for the documentary “Lernen lernen” made by GSIS Researcher Sophie Huber-Lachner was started. See here. Read more about her project on our project site. Read the article of Bernadette Bayrhammer Filmemacherin Sophie Huber-Lachner: “Soll kein Anti-Schul-Film…
The new issue of the peer-reviewed, open-access Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice, published with oekom by the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, is on “Climate-Neutral and…
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On Monday, 15 March 2021, a press conference ushered in the awareness raising campaign for planetary solidarity, named after Edgar Morin‘s “Homeland Earth”. It was held by Gudrun Kramer, Director of the ASPR. She was supported by Werner Wintersteiner, retired…
Some time ago we announced the plans for a worldwide campaign to promote planetary awareness, supported by GSIS. Today, you can watch here Edgar Morin‘s appeal for the campaign (video). You can also read the Appeal for the Campaign in…
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Philosopher Günther Witzany was recently interviewed by Salzburger Nachrichten. He is an expert as to the place of viruses on Earth and he was asked also about COVID-19. This crisis – so Witzany – reminds mankind of taking an ecological…
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Based upon a project on Society After Money – A Simulation, funded by Volkswagen Foundation, the interdisciplinary research group will hold an online workshop on “envisioning post-capitalist societies via simulation“. The workshop will be held on 18-19 February, 2021, and…
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Information Management and Interdisciplinarity are two foundations of our modern society. The Iron Curtain fell in 1989 and as a consequence, academic institutions initialized cooperation between Austria and the Czech Republic. In 1992 an agreement on a cooperation between the…
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The S-BPM ONE 2020, the 12th International Conference on Subject-Oriented Business Process Management, originally planned at BIBA Bremen Institute for Production and Logistics, Bremen, Germany, took place from December 2–3, 2020 in an online format. Accordingly, emergence became evident throughout preparation leading to the novel format of…
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Günther Witzany, independent philosopher in Salzburg, Austria, has become friends with GSIS. He runs a website on Biocommunication and Natural Genome Editing. “Biocommunication” is the term Witzany coined to label his approach for which he found evidence through many research…
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Julian Nida-Rümelin, philosopher and political theorist at the LMU (University of Munich), author of Digitaler Humanismus 2018 together with his wife, literary scholar and film theorist Nathalie Weidenfeld, is the speaker at the next DigHum Lectures on 15 December 2020,…
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