IFSR - International Federation for Systems Research

This page contains some news items from 2008. Events and News are now to be added in the
"Events and News Page"

At the EMCSR 2008 IFSR will again (like in 2006) organize a whole day (Wednesday, March 26th, 2008) to topics important for the systems community in general and IFSR in particular.

A whole track at the EMCSR will be devoted to and organized bgy the IFSR!

See what the future can be and get involved in the discussions.

For details see

The Fuschl Conversation 2008
"Systems Research and Education"
will take place in Fuschl from Saturday, 29 March - Thursday, April 3, 2008.
at Seehotel Schlick,
Seepromenade 35
5330 Fuschl am See, Austria
Tel. +43 6226 8237, Fax.+43 6226 8237-12

The IFSR has the following major means of publication
The Journal of Systems Research and Behavioural Science

The IFSR Book Series on Systems Science and Engineering

The IFSR Newsletter

IFSR - Member Organizations

Dear visitor of IFSR’s new web site!

We hope that this new website (also accessible as "http://ifsr.ocg.at/world") will better serve our member societies, their individual members and the systems community at large, especially by allowing visitors to post comments and information themselves.

In this section you find events related to the IFSR, supplied by IFSR's member societies and other registered users.
To add your event you have to be registered. Click "add new comment" below insert the date of the event ("yyyy-mm-dd", plus "/dd" for several days) plus a short title into the 'subject field' and the full text into 'comment field'

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The proceedings of some of the Fuschl Conversations are available at:

Past Fuschl Conversations (Proceedings)

Information about previous Fuschl Conferences can also be found in the

IFSR Newsletters

usually in the isue appearing at of the year when the Fuschl Conversation took place.

What is a Conversation?
Bela Banathy defined a conversation as follows:
A Conversation is
• a collectively guided disciplined inquiry,
• an exploration of issues of social/societal significance,
• engaged by scholarly practitioners in self-organized teams,
• who select a theme for their conversation,
• which is initiated in the course of a preparation phase that leads to an intensive learning phase.

Why conversation and what form do they take? ?