ANNOUNCEMENT
Conference of the European National Associations of the Club of Rome in Valencia

March 31st, 2006: The Valencian Group of the Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome will be hosting a conference for the European National Associations of the Club of Rome from March 31st to April 2nd, 2006. Members of the non-European Associations and Members of the Club of Rome and tt30 are also invited to participate.

The conference which is organized in co-operation with the European Support Centre (ESC) will have the title

"Europe and the New Dimensions of Sustainability. Multiculturalism and Human Quality".

The event will be opened by Rafael Blasco, Coordinator of the Valencian Group and Esko Kalimo, Chair of the Board of the ESC. It will include a presentation by Dennis Meadows with an introduction by Ricardo Díez-Hochleitner, Honorary President of the Club of Rome, and statements by Teresa Mendizábal and José Manuel Moran, Vice Presidents of the Spanish Chapter. Representatives of the National Associations are invited to present their work during the conference. Official invitations will be sent out within a few days.
More information on the event is available on the Conference Website .

ANNOUNCEMENT
Symposium on the EU Strategy for Sustainable Development
in Co-operation with the Austrian EU Presidency

April 5th, 2006: During the Austrian EU Presidency, a revised EU Strategy for Sustainable Development will be decided upon. The Brussels-EU Chapter and the European Support Centre of the Club of Rome are organizing in co-operation with the Austrian EU Presidency a symposium "Civil Society Monitoring the EU Strategy for Sustainable development - from Commenting to Shared Ownership" in Brussels. In the event, the involvement of civil society in the monitoring and implementation of the EU Strategy for Sustainable Development will be discussed. More information on the event is available on the Conference Website .

29th Aurelio Peccei Lecture in Brussels
by Jérôme Bindé

February 22nd, 2006: Jérôme Bindé, Member of the Club of Rome, will present information on the UNESCO World Report "Towards Knowledge Societies". This report was prepared under 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.
Details are available for download as pdf file

"Zukunftsperspektiven der Gesellschaft" discussed in Vienna

February 4th, 2006: The proceedings of the symposion on "Future Perspectives of Society" are available now. The focus of the event which was organized by the Austrian Chapter and the European Support Centre of the Club of Rome was on the influence of the presently dominating ways of globalisation on the individual citizen and on the social capital of society. The complete proceedings as well as the individual speeches (mostly in German) can now be downloaded. here.

Discussion in Poland on
"Limits to Growth - The 30 Year Update"

January 24th, 2006: A joint meeting was held by the Committee for Futures Studies “Poland 2000 Plus” of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Association for the Club of Rome.

Above all, it is difficult to put forth new information in a system that is structured to hear only old information. Just try, sometime, to question in public the value of more growth, or even to make a distinction between growth and development, and you will see what we mean.

The participants discussed the 30-years update of Limits to Growth and published a common statement, which can be downloaded as pdf file .

CACOR Meeting
on Sweden's Approach to the Environment

January 31st, 2006: Ingrid Maria Iremark, Ambassador of Sweden to Canada was invited by the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome to present information about the Swedish initiatives for the environment.

Publication by the Polish Association for the
Club of Rome "Turning Points in the Transformation
on the Global Scene"

February 4th, 2006: Antoni Kuklinski and Boguslaw Skuza edited this new publication of the Polish Association for the Club of Rome The concept of turning points as an effective instrument of theoretical reflection and empirical analysis is discussed in this publication in a broad framework of the changing transformation and perception of the Global Scene.
The volume is available for download as pdf file

New Perspectives for an Integrated Europe
by Paul Rademaker, President of the Erasmus Liga

The document gives an outline on the problems releting to the definition of Europe and discusses the role of visions and culture.
It available for download as pdf file

Activity Report by the European Support Centre released

January 25th, 2006: The European Support Centre of the Club of Rome has published its Annual Activity Report 2005, which gives a short outline of the main acivities and projects. The report is available for download via this link.

Personalidad, habitos de consumo y riesgo de adiccion a Internet en estudiantes universitarios
by Mainé Astonitas (Think Tank 30)

The article on Personality, consumer habits and risk of Internet addiction among university students is available at Revista de Psicilogia. Volumen XXIII Primer semestre 2005. N 1.

Postmoderne und/oder Rationalität
by Endre Kiss (Hungarian Association)

Endre Kiss, member of the Hungarian Association of the Club of Rome, edited this remarkable volume.

Citation from the Preface: "The last thirty years of the philosophy gave two main trends of philosophical thinking the active role of effective shaping history and society. One of them was the renaissance of the epistemological methodology and theory-building of the neoliberalism-neopositivism, which effectively restored the continuity of the positivism of the former Vienna Circle as well as expressed the new, anti-communist, neoliberal concepts in the field of politics, economy and philosophical methodology of those, who had disappointed in marxism already in the thirties.

When the New-Left unexpectedly declined in the seventies, this trend gained global strategically decisive role. The other trend, which shapes effectively history and society, is the complex of the postmodernist way of thinking, which trend got into a global strategically decisive position also in the seventies, after the sudden and simultaneous fall of neomarxism and structuralism. In spite of the fact, that the last thirty years passed under the joint, dual and simultaneous hegemony of neopositivism and neoliberalism, the two trends has very rarely made open contact with each other."
more information on the author is available on the homepage