The lecture was organized by the EU-Chapter of the Club of Rome in collaboration with the European Support Centre.

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please visit the Peccei Lectures Website.

The lecture was organized by the Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome in collaboration with the European Support Centre.

For further information about the event,
please visit the Peccei Lectures Website.

The lecture was organized by the Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome in collaboration with the European Support Centre.

For further information about the event,
please visit the Peccei Lectures Website.

The lecture was organized by the Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome in collaboration with the European Support Centre.

For further information about the event,
please visit the Peccei Lectures Website.

The lecture is organized by the Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome in collaboration with the European Support Centre.

For further information about the event ,
Peccei Lectures Website.

The lecture is organized by the Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome in collaboration with the European Support Centre.

For further information about the event,
please visit the Peccei Lectures Website.

The lecture is organized by the Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome in collaboration with the European Support Centre.

For further information about the event and the contact data for registration please visit the Peccei Lectures Website.

The lecture is organized by the Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome in collaboration with the European Support Centre.

For further information about the event and the contact data for registration please visit the Peccei Lectures Website.

The lecture is organized by the Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome in collaboration with the European Support Centre.

For further information about the event and the contact data for registration please visit the Peccei Lectures Website.

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in Dutch language,
in Franch language.

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Brussels: Aurelio Peccei Lecture with Thierry Gaudin

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Belgium: Aurelio Peccei Lecture on Sustainable Cities

The speaker was Silvia Zimmermann del Castillo, an Argentinean writer and philosopher, and Executive Director of the Argentinean Chapter of the Club of Rome.

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Vision of a Zero-waste and Zero-emission Flanders
by Raoul Weiler, President of the Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome.

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Belgium: Aurelio Peccei Lecture with Philippe Busquin

Speakers were Robby Berloznik (Director viWTA, Flemish Parliament, Belgium), Jan Staman (Director Rathenau Institute, President EPTA, The Netherlands) and Philippe Busquin (MEP, Chairman STOA, Former EU-Commissioner for Research, Belgium)

After the lecture, Honorary Membership of the Chapter was conferred by H.R.H. Prince Philip of Belgium on Philippe Busquin, MEP.

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Lecture Website

Belgium: 50th Aurelio Peccei Lecture

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Aurelio Peccei Lecture by Spyros Konidaris

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Aurelio Peccei Lectures by Jean Guinet and Barry Hughes

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February, 29th, 2008: Barry Hughes gave a presentation about the UNEP Global Environment Outlook Report, GEO-4 : The uses of modeling for analysing trends of the future.

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Barry Hughes Lecture Website.

Brussels: Aurelio Peccei Lecture by Martin Lees, Secretary-General of the Club of Rome

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Brussels: 46th Aurelio Peccei Lecture by Jean Guinet and Gang Zhang

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Dec 5th, 2007: The Federal Public Service of Foreign Affairs has the honour to invite you to a presentation of the main findings of the OECD Review of China’s Innovation Policy, by Mr Jean Guinet, Head Country Review Unit, OECD Directorate of Science, Technology and Industry, and Mr Gang Zhang, Administrator and Principal Economist, Non Member Economies, OECD Directorate of Science, Technology and Industry. The presentation will take place on Wednesday, 5 December 2007, at 11.00 AM, at the Egmont II Conference Room, Federal Public Service of Foreign Affairs, in Brussels.

The invitation is available for download.

ANNOUNCEMENT
Belgium: DESERTEC Concept for Energy, Water and Climate Security

Conference "Beyond GDP"

Nov. 20th, 2007: The European Commission, European Parliament, Club of Rome, OECD and WWF hosted a high-level conference with the objectives of clarifying which indices are most appropriate to measure progress, and how these can best be integrated into the decision-making process and taken up by public debate.

GDP is the best-recognised measure of economic performance in the world, often used as a generic indicator of progress. However, the relationship between economic growth as measured by GDP and other dimensions of societal progress is not straightforward. Effectively measuring progress, wealth and well-being requires indices that are as clear and appealing as GDP but more inclusive than GDP—ones that incorporate social and environmental issues. This is especially important given global challenges such as climate change, global poverty, pressure on resources and their potential impact on societies.

Hans-Gert Pöttering

Hans-Gert Pöttering, Honorary President of the Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome, gave a keynote speech and called for action in order to overcome the restricitions of GDP. More information is available on the conference website.

Measuring Wealth - Challenges and Ways Forward

Anders Wijkman

Nov. 19th, 2007: Anders Wijkman, MEP, Members of the Brussels-EU Chapter and Vice-President of the Club of Rome, opened an event on technical and policy challenges related to measuring wealth. The event, which was held at the European Parliament, preceeded the conference "Beyond GDP" (see above). Anders Wijkman outlined the history of GDP, having been developped in the 1930s. He emphasized that there are undeniable correlations between GDP and many indicators of welfare but that other aspects like the informal economy, volunteer work, leisure, human capital, pollution and resource depletion are not represented or underestimated in the presently used GDP.

Brussels: 45th Aurelio Peccei Lecture by Jane Roberts

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Oct 22nd, 2007: The lecture "Small Change Delivers: Mobilising grassroots dollars to save women’s lives" will introduce UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund and Jane Roberts' and Lois Abraham's initiative to bridge the funding gap (In 2002, the Bush Administration announced they would withhold the $34 million annually allocated by Congress to UNFPA) and to show American citizens’ support for UNFPA. The initiative hopes to find 34 million Americans to take a stand with at least one dollar and has to date raised $3.6 million. The invitation to the lecture is available for download.

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Belgium: Aurelio Peccei Lecture with Franz Josef Radermacher

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Sept. 19th, 2007: Globalisation today does not lead the world into a peaceful future and a sustainable state. Instead, insufficient governance structures threaten the ecological stability of the world and increase social and cultural gaps. Franz Josef Radermacher presented the Global Marshall Plan as a step towards a new global governance at the 44th Aurelio Peccei Lecture in Brussels.

After the lecture, Hans-Gert Pöttering, President of the European Parliament, received the Honorary Membership of the Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome.

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Brussels: 43rd Aurelio Peccei Lecture by Jacques de Selliers, Guy Reinaud and Jacques de Gerlache

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May 24th, 2007: The lecture dealt with the topic of biodiversity, which is one of the major challenges of our society and a substantial prerequisite for a sustainable planet. The results of the The Santo-Vanuatu Expedition in 2006, illustrated the issue.

The lecture was preceded by the annual general assembly of the members of the Bussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome.

Materials available:
Invitation/Programme
Slides by Jacques de Selliers
Slides by Guy Reinaud and Jacques de Gerlache

Brussels: 42nd Aurelio Peccei Lecture by Dean Peterson and Nancy Bertler

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May 30th, 2007: "Antarctica and Climate Change - Research in New Zealand" will be the title of the presentation by Dean Peterson and Nancy Berler". Advancing knowledge, appreciation and conservation, of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean for the benefit of New Zealand and the world community, through leadership, partnership, and involvement in high quality Antarctic related activities is the aim of Antarctica New Zealand. It was established under the New Zealand Antarctic Institute Act 1996 and is responsible for developing, managing, and administering New Zealand's activities in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, particularly the Ross Sea region.

Materials available:
Invitation/Programme
Videos for download: No 1, No 2, No 3

Brussels: 41st Aurelio Peccei Lecture by Florence Devouard

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May 24th, 2007: "Wikipedia and the Educational Landscape" will be the title of the presentation by the Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a project to build free encyclopaedias in all languages of the world.

The Video of the presentation can be viewed on MySpace. Please follow the external links in order to view Part 1 and Part 2.
The Brussels-EU Chapter takes no responsibility for the contents of external links.

Brussels: 40th Aurelio Peccei Lecture by Tapio Kanninen

May 9th, 2007: The lecture discussed how the international community could conceptualise, understand and react to global and regional threats. The recent United Nations’ (UN) High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, and other world commissions, have outlined the increased threats to humanity in the 21st century. In relation to that a simple framework is presented to assess the trends of the future with illustrative examples of its application. The lesture discusses how this framework could be more systematic, or quantified, based on the history of similar efforts in economic, social, environmental and political fields. Finally, a tentative global response system is presented, based on the framework, to react to emerging threats to the international community in the years and decades to come.

Materials available:
Invitation
background paper
slides
Link to the video with the presentation
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Brussels: 39th Aurelio Peccei Lecture by Anne-Rachel Inné and Giovanni Seppia

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April 4th, 2007: "ICANN: Achievements and Challenges of a Multi-Stakeholder, Bottom up, Transparent Model" was the title of the lecture. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, is responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's system of unique identifiers. These include domain names (like .org, .museum and country codes like .UK), as well as the addresses used in a variety of Internet protocols. Computers use these identifiers to reach each other over the Internet. Careful management of these resources is vital to the Internet's operation, so ICANN's global stakeholders meet regularly to develop policies that ensure the Internet's ongoing security and stability. The lecture will provide insight in the work of ICANN, especially the African and the European Regional Liaison.

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Brussels: 38th Aurelio Peccei Lecture
with Patrick M. Liedtke

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March 1st, 2007: Patrick M. Liedtke, President and Managing Director of the Geneva Association and Member of the Executive Committee of the Club of Rome presented in the lecture the new edition of the Report to the Club of Rome The Future of Work and the Employment Dilemma which was published together with Orio Giarini.

Modern societies are trying to develop concepts that allow them to protect their citizens and at the same time stay competitive in the globalised markets. The new welfare state no longer arranges for full coverage of all risks but requires its citizens to assume more risks individually and to organise their adequate protection themselves. This is the so-called “risk shift from public to private”, a concept we have been developing for a number of years. Unfortunately, usually as a consequence of half-hearted or partial reforms, this has often led to an erosion of the protective systems rather than their real modernization.

For further information on the lecture please download the slides or a background text.

For more information on the book please follow this link

Brussels: 37th Aurelio Peccei Lecture with Klaus Dosch

Feb. 1st, 2007: The dramatic increase of demand for natural resources and energy in India, China and other semiindustrialised countries is having a negative impact on the German economy. The bull market for natural resources linked to this development is likely to continue and poses new challenges for Germany. Against this background, the Aachen Foundation has commissioned a number of studies which were introduced in the lecture

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Brussels: 36th Aurelio Peccei Lecture with Hugo de Man

Nov. 23rd, 2006: The previous centuries led to the discovery of the basic laws of nature and life itself. This resulted in three industrial revolutions based on unconstrained use of energy and on the seemingly endless exponential growth of information and communication capacity. But will the 21st century be business as usual? These are some of the issues which were discussed by Hugo de Man in his lecture "Converging Technologies for a Sustainable 21st Century"

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Brussels: 35th Aurelio Peccei Lecture with Walter Stahel

Oct 26th, 2006: Walter Stahel, Vice secretary-general and head of risk management research, The Geneva Association, introduced to the Performane Economy. The Performance Economy bridges the gap between the 2010 Lisbon Objectives of the European Union - higher growth and more jobs - and the sustainability objective to radically reduce the resource consumption - energy and materials - especially of industrialised countries.

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Brussels: 34th Aurelio Peccei Lecture with David Wasdell

Sept. 28th, 2006: David Wasdell, Founder and Director of the Unit for Research into Changing Institutions, introduced a conceptual, systems-dynamics approach to modelling the whole earth system as a single global entity. World-leading analysis of the feedback dynamics in climate change alerts us to the existence of a potential “tipping point” or watershed in the behaviour of global climate.

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Brussels: 33rd Aurelio Peccei Lecture with Bernhard Knies

June 22nd, 2006: At each km² of desert energy as in 1.5 million barrels of oil is arriving annually. We do have the technology to convert at least 50% of it into useful energy as heat for steam production, for power plants and for seawater desalination. Thermal solar power plants and deserts can provide Humankind with clean power and fresh water at any conceivable demand, if the sun-belt and the technology belt begin to cooperate. How we could solve the world’s energy, water and climate problem by a cooperation of sun-belt and technology-belt is subject of the presentation.

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Brussels: 32nd Aurelio Peccei Lecture with Marc van der Erve

June 1st, 2006: In his lecture "The Future of Socety - A New Image of Reality That Will Transform Society" Marc van der Erve described his dogged investigation into the nature of reality and explained how his insight into the domains of physics and sociology helped him unearth the time-inspired origin of our world. This finding will trigger a global transition towards a more truthful and down-to-earth interpretation of reality.

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31st Aurelio Peccei Lecture in Brussels on Microfinance

March 29th, 2006: The prerequisite of attaining sustainable societies is that large scale poverty, more than one third of mankind lives with less than 2$/day, is eradicated. Since a few decades microfinance has enabled numerous poor families to get out of their situation, providing them a better life. Reaching a 100 million people and helping them out of their situation is the objective for the coming years of microfinance endeavours.
The lecture was organized in co-operation with PlanetFinance and the Solvay Business School. A list of speakers and further details are available for download.

30th Aurelio Peccei Lecture in Brussels by Ivo Slaus

March 14th, 2006: "Building Knowledge Society – the Role of Pugwash and the World Academy of Art and Science" was the title of the presentation by Ivo Slaus, Member of the Club of Rome. What is knowledge society, why should it be built and how – these are some of the questions that were addressed in this talk. Pugwash conferences have been initiated following the famous Russell-Einstein Manifesto and Pugwash and its founder Sir Joseph Rotblat received in 1995 the Nobel Prize for peace.
Details are available for download.

29th Aurelio Peccei Lecture in Brussels
by Jérôme Bindé

February 22nd, 2006: Jérôme Bindé, Member of the Club of Rome, presented information on the UNESCO World Report "Towards Knowledge Societies" in Brussels. The report was prepared under the his direction and is prefaced by the UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura, Honorary Member of the Club. The international press gave wide attention to the World Report, which was a major document at the WSIS in Tunis.

The report is available for download on the UNESCO Website

28th Aurelio Peccei Lecture in Brussels by Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis

December 14th, 2005: Dr. Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis, President and Founder of the Biopolitics International Organisation, Athens, will talk about "Biopolicy - Building New Values for the Millennium".
Details are available for download.

27th Aurelio Peccei Lecture in Brussels by Mathis Wackernagel

November 24th, 2005: Are we running out of planet? Was Malthus wrong? Do economies self-correct or self-destruct when operating as if resources are limitless? Can everyone on this planet live like a Chinese? A Costa Rican? A Canadian? The Ecological Footprint explores these questions, and provides tools to answer them. It does this because rewarding lives for all are possible, if we get real.

The Footprint is a policy tool to drive sustainability. It is a standardized way to measure what has been immeasurable, contentious, and often misunderstood: ecological limits. It simply compares people’s demand on resources with nature’s ability to renew them.

Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of this tool and executive director of Global Footprint Network, showcased applications from around the world with government agencies, NGOs, businesses, cities, highlighting how they have used the tool for advancing human well-being within the means of one planet. More info can be downloaded here.

26th Aurelio Peccei Lecture in Brussels by Ping Chen

November 22nd, 2005: Prof. Ping Chenhe was one of the reform scientists who systematically criticized traditional agriculture policy and strategic thinking in China. The major policy proposals for China's reform are: agricultural policy based on ecological constraint, dismantling the state monopoly system for purchase and marketing in agriculture, introducing patent system, regional integration policy based on energy co-development in East Asia, developing credit system in financial market, and breaking monopoly in state banking. More info can be downloaded here.

World Summit on the Information Society: Three Events

November 16-18, 2005: In co-operation with WorldSpace and UNESCO, there were three events at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis.

Raoul Weiler and Roland Burger open the workshop on capacity-building

On November 16th, the results of the Club of Rome/UNESCO World Conference were presented. These included results on low-cost technology and critical success factors. The proceedings of the conference as written publication and the conference DVD, which includes an Ubuntu Linux software, were also presented.

On November 17th, there was a workshop on "ICT for Sustainability and Environmental Issues". The workshop included presentations on the ecobalance of paper versus electronic documents, on the use of GIS for environmental monitoring, on electronic waste, on policy options and the introduction of a satellite radio which was powered by a lamp that can be fuelled by renewables.

Nicholas Negroponte presents the 100-Dollar-Laptop project

On November 18th, there was a presentation of the 100-Dollar-Laptop project by Nicholas Negroponte, MIT. The idea is to equip every child with such a device that is run with a Linux system and supplied with energy by a wind-up mechanism. The challenge will be to scale software and hardware down in order to have an efficient and easily usable device.

The programme of the events is available for download.

25th Aurelio Peccei Lecture in Brussels by Vandana Shiva

November 15th, 2005: In the 25th Aurelio Peccei Lecture, Vandana Shiva spoke about Eco-feminism in historical Perspective: From the Enlightenment to the 21st Century. Diversity is fast moving into the defining metaphor in place of monocultures of the mind. Eco-feminism has emerged as a serious challenge to Cartesian reductionism and the Baconian "rape of nature" as the "masculine mode" of knowing. Globalization is however threatening to the ecological gains of the past few decades. More info can be downloaded here.

24th Aurelio Peccei Lecture in Brussels by Philippe van Parijs

October 13th, 2005: Along with much of the world, Europe is converging rapidly towards adopting English as its sole lingua franca. This process is, in a sense to be clarified, inevitable. It is also, in a sense to be qualified, desirable. But it raises a number of serious questions, at least three of which can be formulated in terms of linguistic injustice: as unfair cooperation, as unequal opportunity, as unequal dignity. The lecture considered each of them in turn, and indicated how they should be handled. More info can be downloaded here.

23rd Aurelio Peccei Lecture in Brussels by Francois Houtard on the World Social Forums

June 2nd, 2005: The speech by Francois Houtard had the title "Globalisation of Resistance". Annually there are World Forums organized in the same week of January as Davos. The last one in Porto Alegre (2005) has been attended by 155000 persons. Continental, national, local, thematic Forums are taking place in the various world regions. It is a new social phenomenon. Why is it happening, who are the participants, how do they operate, what are the challenges? A short description can be downloaded here.

World Conference on Information Technology and Capacity Building

May 11-13th, 2005: In a co-operation with UNESCO, a three-day World Conference was held in Paris. The topic was the use of information and communication technologies, including satellites, for development, in particular, capacity-building through education.

Special highlights were the speeches by Koichiro Matsuura, Director General of UNESCO (speech available for download) and Valdas Adamkus, President of the Republic of Lithuania and UNESCO Ambassador of good will for the Knowledge Society, who emphasized the role of education but also stated that education is more that training for short-term needs.

Prof. Raoul Weiler, President of the Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome, outlined the scope of the conference which did also give a practical example on the use of the new technologies. The event was held with parallel sessions. Asia, America, Middle East and Africa were connected live to the UNESCO site in Paris and the conference was simultaneously broadcasted on the web.

In a special session, organized by Raoul Weiler and Roland Burger (tt30/Italy), the emphasis was on low cost access. Nicholas Negroponte introduced the plans for a Linux based 100-Dollar Laptop.

The closing speech of the conference was held by the President of the Club of Rome, HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal, emphasizing the role of education in transforming the omnipresent culture of war into a culture of peace. The speech (length 11 minutes) can be downloaded below.

The complete webcast archive of the conference as it had been distributed via the World Bank GDLN Network is available on the conference website

Augusto Lopez-Claros gave Aurelio Peccei Lecture in Brussels

April 14th, 2005: Augusto Lopez-Claros is Chief Economist and Director of the Global Competitiveness Programme of the World Economic Forum. He gave introductions to the Global Competitiveness Reports (GCRs) published by the World Economic Forum and to the Executive Opinion Surveys (EOS) which capture the expert opinions of over 7500 business leaders and entrepreneurs. The programme can be downloaded here

21st Aurelio Peccei Lecture in Brussels by Ernst Ulrich
von Weizsäcker

March 2nd, 2005: Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker presented the new report to the Club of Rome "Limits to Privatization - How to avoid too much of a good thing" in Brussels. The new report analyses more than 50 case studies of privatization. It provides guidance for policy and action in order to create a new balance between the private sector, the state and the increasingly important civil society. Details about the meeting can be downloaded here

Activities at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre

Raoul Weiler, President of the Brussels/ EU Chapter giving a
presentation in Porto Alegre

January 26th to 31st, 2005: The ESC and the Brussels/EU Chapter organised an event at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. The use of information technology for education and human capacity building was discussed. Raoul Weiler, President of the Brussels/EU Chapter of the Club of Rome introduced to the theme and outlined the need for innovative approaches. Just providing the technology will not be sufficient. Social aspects, such as the needs of the users of the technology should have higher priority than in the past. Thomas Schauer introduced to the relation between technology and equality of chances. The presentation was followed by discussions, in which the participants of the event presented themselves projects and mentioned success factors. Finally, the plans for the World Conference on Capacity Building (please see the announcement above) were introduced and discussed with the participants.
The ESC and the Brussels/EU Chapter were also present with a stand, at which many interested visitors were welcomed and got involed in discussions on the future role of information technology in education. A report on the WSF related activities can be downloaded here

20th Aurelio Peccei Lecture in Brussels

January 19th, 2005: In the Aurelio Peccei Lecture organised by the Brussels/EU Chapter of the Club of Rome there was a presentation by Prof. Rik Pinxten (Center for Intercultural Communication and Interaction at Gent University) on "Cultural Diversity as a Pillar of Sustainability" Details can be downloaded here

Honorary Presidency Brussels EU-Chapter of the Club of Rome conferred on H.R.H. Prince Philip of Belgium

June 29th, 2004: The Crown Prince was honoured for his dedication to the spirit and the activities of the Club of Rome.

On the same occation four Honorary Members were nominated: Count Didisheim, former president of the King Baudouin Foundation, Minister of State Mark Eyskens, president of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts, Baron Daniel Janssen, Chairman of the Board of Solvay and Marc de Schoutheete de Teravent, Ambassador of Belgium in Jordan.

The ceremony coincided with the 17th conference in the series of Aurelio Peccei Lectures, organised by the Brussels EU-Chapter of the Club of Rome, held by Jérôme Bindé (Deputy Assistant Director for Social and Human Sciences, Director of Foresight, Philosophy and Human Sciences, UNESCO) on the subject "Towards Knowledge Societies" and by Dr. Kennedy Graham (Senior fellow, Peace and Governance Division of the United Nations University) on "Global Governance: The Cultural Dimension".

For further information please contact Mark Dubrulle, Executive Director, mark@dubrulle.be)