Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues

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Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues (JBZ)
founding 1985
Sponsorship Foundation, endowment
address Strubergasse 18
place Salzburg
state Salzburg
country Austria
management Klaus Firlei (President) Stefan Wally (Management)
Website www.jungk-bibliothek.org

The Robert Jungk library for future questions (YEC) is in one of the future researchers and journalists Robert Jungk Founded in 1985, Foundation (Robert Jungk Foundation) back and is a nationally recognized non-profit organization that in the Austrian capital Salzburg is. The institute is a member of the umbrella organization Salzburg cultural sites and has been awarded the Austrian Ecolabel for educational institutions for its educational work.

It is financed through public funds, orders and projects as well as membership fees and donations. The geographer Hans Holzinger, the literary and cultural scientist Katharina Kiening, the political scientist Stefan Wally and the political scientist Birgit Bahtić-Kunrath work at the JBZ.

Mission statement

The Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues sees itself as an “information and dialogue center for sustainable shaping of the future”. With its work, the institution pursues three goals: Evaluation and action-oriented processing of future knowledge ( monitoring and transfer function); Initiation, support and implementation of future-oriented projects and processes (innovation and moderation function) as well as comments on current future topics (discourse function).

Program areas

The reference library belonging to the foundation was opened in 1986, it comprises almost 16,000 volumes and over 160 journals (as of 2016). The review magazine proZukunft is published quarterly . There is a monthly discussion event , the JBZ Monday round. At JBZ-Zukunftsbuch authors present the latest publications and JBZ working papers have been published since 2012 . Future workshops are also organized regularly . In cooperation with the city ​​of Salzburg , the Robert Jungk grant for future research is awarded once a year .

proFuture

The review magazine proZukunft  was founded in 1987 by  Robert Jungk  . Every quarter, the magazine presents around 30 publications from trend and  future research  and provides interdisciplinary information on topics relevant to the future. Alternating core areas include politics , economics , technology , ecology , sociology , philosophy , psychology and cultural theories . The majority of the  reviews  come from the institute's academic staff. However, guest contributions from external researchers who deal with subject-specific subject areas are repeatedly incorporated. The editor-in-chief is Katharina Kiening.

All reviews since 1987 can be found in the digital database proZukunft. Articles from current issues are fed in a few weeks after the publication date and made available to the public free of charge. This collection currently includes over 4600 reviews (as of 2018).

JBZ Monday round

In 2010, Stefan Wally founded the JBZ Monday round format . Once a month, interested parties can take part in discussions on changing topics free of charge. The two-hour process is always the same: An invited person gives a keynote speech and thus provides the starting point for the subsequent discussion. Topics and lecture guests have so far included:

JBZ future book

The JBZ Future Book series of events has been a platform for publications since 2012 that the Robert Jungk Library classifies as particularly recommendable or stimulating for discussion and is supervised by Hans Holzinger. Authors regularly present their new publications. This is followed by an open discussion and question-and-answer session. Among the people invited and the books discussed were, for example:

  • Andreas Zumach : Global chaos and the powerless UN
  • Christian Felber : Money. The new rules of the game
  • Christine Ax and Fritz Hinterberger: Growth mania
  • Gabriele Sorgo: The invisible dimension. Education for sustainable development in the cultural process
  • Johannes Schmidl: Energy and Utopia
  • Marianne Gronemeyer : Good work, does it still exist?
  • Niko Paech : Liberation from Abundance. Opportunities and barriers of a post-growth economy
  • Ulrike Unterbruner: Young People's Images of the Future

JBZ working papers

The JBZ working papers have been published by the Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues since 2010. Scientific topics are dealt with at regular intervals and are intended to stimulate social discussions. Renowned scientists from different fields take turns writing, and young researchers are also consciously integrated and promoted. Almost all publications can be downloaded for free. A selection of the JBZ working papers can be found here:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. See e.g. B. Robert Jungk: International Library for Future Issues: So that future research does not remain a privilege of the powerful. In: K. Burmeister, W. Canzler, R. Kreibich (1991): Networks, networking and shaping the future. Weinheim and Basel. P. 73ff.
  2. ^ Karlheinz Steinmüller, Rolf Kreibich, Christoph Zöpel: Future research in Europe. Nomos, 2000. pp. 69f.
  3. ^ Members - Umbrella Association of Salzburg Cultural Sites. Retrieved January 12, 2018 .
  4. BMLFUW, VKI: Educational Institutions - The Austrian Environmental Label. Retrieved December 11, 2017 .
  5. team | The Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues (JBZ). Retrieved September 24, 2018 (German).
  6. ^ Basic research in the spirit of Robert Jungk . In: The Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues (JBZ) . January 12, 2017 ( jungk-bibliothek.org [accessed December 11, 2017]).
  7. ^ Günter Sandner: Science and regional science policy in the state of Salzburg 1977-1989. In: Herbert Dachs et al. (2001): The Haslauer Era. Salzburg in the seventies and eighties. Vienna, Böhlau. Pp. 539-564, here pp. 550f.
  8. Robert Jungk's library ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.robertjungk.at
  9. JBZ ZUKUNFTSWERKSTATT . In: The Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues (JBZ) . August 4, 2016 ( jungk-bibliothek.org [accessed December 11, 2017]).
  10. Verena Braschel: Robert Jungk scholarship for future research - cultural portal of the city of Salzburg. Retrieved December 11, 2017 .
  11. Matthias Reichl (Ed.): ... So that we don't go under ... edition sandkorn, Linz 1992, ISBN 3-901100-16-4 , p. 187 .
  12. Pro future . In: The Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues (JBZ) . December 31, 2013 ( jungk-bibliothek.org [accessed December 11, 2017]).
  13. ^ Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues (ed.): ProZukunft . No. 2017/4 . Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues, Salzburg, p. 2 .
  14. Home - ProZukunft. Retrieved December 11, 2017 (German).
  15. What are JBZ working papers? In: The Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues (JBZ) . July 27, 2016 ( jungk-bibliothek.org [accessed November 14, 2017]).
  16. JBZ working papers | The Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues (JBZ). Accessed November 14, 2017 (German).

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