Club of Vienna

The Club of Vienna ( CoV ) is an international organization with 24 members, which deals with the "Causes of Growth". From the work of CoV should emerge reliable, far-sighted expertise and finally proposals for the solution of societal problems. After the Club of Rome has investigated the limits to growth, the founding president of the CoV Rupert Riedl was situated in the investigation of the causes of growth. The CoV is non-partisan.

  • 3.1 Board and Management
  • 3.2 Founding President
  • 3.3 members

Tasks and objectives

The attention of the Club of Vienna is especially the intellectual, cultural, ecological, economic and political forces with which social life can be a socially and ecologically compatible and have to prove themselves in the tension between local, regional and global interests; globalization and the associated with it changes in all areas of life and the possible scenarios for the city of Vienna.

The Club of Vienna wins the theme -setting impulses from the social practice of conflict containing public affairs, always in the same core side: There are distributional conflicts and values ​​questions. Be distributed benefits and burdens, resources, habitat, quality of life. What we want (not ) have? As we want to (not ) live? What criteria do we judge our actions?

Priority in the work of the CoV So have questions that are significant for the protection of livelihoods, for the coexistence of the people, for the maintenance of peace and a long-term stable economy.

Interdisciplinarity and the insights of evolutionary theory, the principles of thought with which routes are explored and initiated a paradigm shift in the economy, politics and society. The CoV wants to bring the constraints and momentum of the economy and the monetary system with the needs of sustainable social and environmental behavior into balance. The overall welfare of the people, the stability of society and the environment must gain precedence over purely economic goals.

Events and Projects

The Club of Vienna tried to cover a wide range of topics. The topics are first discussed internally and edited in project groups.

Forms of work

  • Voluntary cooperation of all members without fees
  • Structuring and analysis of interdisciplinary scientific topics of social relevance
  • Processing of key issues in project form, with displaced teams and the involvement of external experts best
  • Processing of an annual core theme
  • Start Annual Symposium as an initial event
  • Extensive surveys on key issues, interpretation of results and discussion of possible consequences
  • Cooperation with pollsters
  • Cooperation with universities and international institutions as

Current Issues

  • Paths in the post-capitalism: recommendations for decision-makers
  • Citizen-based decision-making in a democracy
  • Acceleration phenomena; non-material well-being indicators
  • Slaves and masters in the information society
  • Sustainability as an investment principle
  • Shrinkage as a new challenge for the new growth society

Bureau, Board, members

Board and Management

  • Hermann Knoflacher: civil engineer, planner, Univ. -Prof. and director of the Institute for Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering at the Technical University of Vienna
  • Manfred Sliwka (1930-2009): PhD in business administration, lecturer at the University of Trier, business consultant and head of training courses in corporate cultures, philosophies and value systems, editor, author
  • Agnieszka Rosik - Koelbl: Postdoctoral German studies, interpreter, translator, literary, linguistic and economic historian, journalist

Founding President

Rupert Riedl (†): formerly Professor of Zoology at the University of Vienna, founder of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg

Members

  • Hans P. Aubauer: Physicist, line Environmental Physics at the Institute of Materials Physics, Univ. at the University of Vienna
  • Mathias Binswanger: Economist - environmental economist, Professor of Economics, University of Applied Sciences Solothurn Northwestern Switzerland, Olten
  • Rudolf Edlinger: politician, former Viennese councilor for housing and urban renewal, and for Finance and Economic Affairs, Federal Minister of Finance Retired, Member of the National Retired, Vice President of the Pensioners Association of Austria
  • Ernst Gehmacher: social scientists, former GF of IFES, social science adviser, head of the office organization of applied social research ( BOAS )
  • Helmut Helsper: lawyer, financial expert, an official in the German Finance Ministry
  • Hermann Knoflacher
  • Peter Kotauczek: entrepreneurs, IT expert, founder of BEKO Holding, Professor of Telecommunications and Computer Art
  • Dennis Meadows: management, environmental scientist and economist, Director of the Institute of Political and Social Science Research, University of New Hampshire, USA
  • Maria Nicolini: Univ. -Prof. at the University of Klagenfurt, Faculty of inter-and transdisciplinary research. Research interests: Social Ecology, sustainability research, participatory planning and decision-making, language in science
  • Werner J. Patzelt: political scientist, Professor at the Institute of Political Science, TU Dresden
  • Manfred Sliwka
  • Gregory Black: General practitioners with a focus on occupational medicine and systems medicine (acupuncture, relaxation techniques, Oneirologie )
  • Gerlint Weber: spatial planner, Univ. -Prof. and Director of the Institute of Spatial Planning and Rural Development at the University of Agricultural Sciences Vienna, President of Eco-social Forum of Vienna

Associate members:

  • Martin Balluch
  • Franz Kreuzer
  • Wolfgang Kromp
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