Club of Vienna
The Club of Vienna (CoV) is an international association with 27 members that deals with the "causes of growth". The work of the CoV should result in reliable, far-sighted expertise and ultimately proposals for solving social problems. After the Club of Rome examined the limits of growth , the founding president of CoV Rupert Riedl wanted to investigate the causes of growth . The CoV is independent of parties . The current president of the Club of Vienna is Hermann Knoflacher .
tasks and goals
The Club of Vienna's main focus is on the intellectual, cultural, ecological, economic and political forces with which social life can be designed in a socially and environmentally compatible manner and which have to prove themselves in the tension between local, regional and global interests; globalization and the associated changes in all areas of life as well as the possible scenarios for the city of Vienna.
The association gains the theme-setting impulses from social practice, from conflict-laden public affairs, which in essence always resemble each other: There are distribution conflicts and questions of values. The benefits and burdens, resources, living space, quality of life are distributed. What do we (not) want to have? How do we (not) want to live? What criteria do we use to judge our actions?
Priority in the work of the CoV is therefore given to questions that are important for securing livelihoods, for people to live together, for maintaining peace and a long-term stable economy.
Interdisciplinarity and the findings of the theory of evolution are the thinking principles with which ways for a paradigm shift in economy, politics and society are researched and initiated. The CoV wants to balance the practical constraints and momentum of the economy and the monetary system with the requirements of sustainable social and ecological behavior. The common good of people, the stability of society and the environment must take precedence over purely economic goals.
Events and projects
The association tries to cover a wide range of topics. The topics are first discussed internally and worked on in project groups.
Forms of work
- Voluntary work by all members without fees
- Structuring and investigation of interdisciplinary scientific topics of social relevance
- Processing of key questions in project form, with dislocated teams and involving the best external experts
- Processing of an annual core topic
- Annual launch symposium as an initial event
- Comprehensive surveys on central topics, evaluation of the results and discussion of possible consequences
- Cooperation with opinion research institutes
- Cooperation with universities and international specialist institutes
Current topics
- Paths to Post-capitalism: Recommendations for Leaders
- Citizen-oriented decision-making in a democracy
- Acceleration phenomena; non-material prosperity indicators
- Slaves and masters in the information society
- Sustainability as an investment principle
- Shrinkage as a new challenge for the new growth society
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
Vienna Rupert Riedl Prize
The Club of Vienna annually awards the Vienna Rupert Riedl Prize for interdisciplinary diploma theses and dissertations on sustainable development, taking due account of the fundamentals of evolutionary processes.
Studies
- Gender equality: Distribution of the current social participation of men and women
- Johannes Meiners, Christine Bauer-Jelinek : The participation of women and men in the gender discourse and in the redesign of gender roles . Ed .: Club of Vienna. Vienna 2014 ( Online [PDF; 1.1 MB ; accessed on December 1, 2017]).
- Sascha Sardadvar: The participation of women and men in gainful employment in connection with questions of macroeconomic development in Austria . Ed .: Club of Vienna. Vienna 2015 ( Online [PDF; 1.4 MB ; accessed on December 1, 2017]).
Individual evidence
- ^ Club of Vienna , accessed on September 15, 2016.