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Multidisciplinarity and its

Implications:View fromLjubljana

dr. iga Turkprofessor,University of Ljubljana,

SloveniaEINS project kick-off

meeting,Brussels,21.12.2011

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Contents

Past in Ljubljanao briefly about the

research team

Future of Europeo Reflection Group on theFuture of Europe

Future of GEANTo GEANT Expert Group

Future of the WorldEU ISS: The world in2030

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Past in Ljubljana

Chair ofConstructionInformaticso how IT has been

changing the creation,maintenance and use ofthe built environment

role of technology,philosophy ofinformation modeling,core constructiontopics

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Interdisciplinary:Built Environmentand Society Richard Florida:

o Human Talent is the UltimateEconomic Resource

The War on Talent:o Quantity, Quality, Impowerment Immigration Construction provides

o housing,o work environment,o civil infrastrcture

Provides an attractive place fortalent

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Reflection Group on the Future ofEurope

The Group is chaired by Mr. Felipe Gonzalez Marquez, assisted by two Vice-Chairs, Ms.Vaira Vike-Freiberga and Mr. Jorma Ollila, and includes 9 more members, all eminentexperts in their own fields: Ms. Lykke Friis, Mr. Rem Koolhaas, Mr. Richard Lambert, Mr.Mario Monti, Mr. Rainer Munz, Ms. Kalypso Nicolaidis, Ms. Nicole Notat, Mr. WolfgangSchuster and Mr. Lech Walesa. The Group is supported by a secretariat headed by

Secretary-General, Mr. iga Turk.

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ABCDE of grand transformations

automation and abundance BRICs and globalization climate change and energy

demography e-everything

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B

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Europe has choices across ABCDE

restructure for postindustrial society

agent of change, trendsetter, player

maintain technologicaland political lead

family and immigrationfriendly

embrace digital like weembraced print

cherish industrialtraditions

bunch of passive selfishformer superpowers

build walls for migrantsand dams for seas

a continent of grumpyold men (an women)

defend the ways ofpaper based society

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hapter: Growth Through Knowledge:mpowering the Individual

Knowledge-based and creative industries andservices have expanded significantly over thelast two decades, becoming the central pillars for

employment and economic dynamism in Europe European Research Area must become a reality an area without borders where all scientificpotential, wherever it is, can be fully tapped

thanks to the free movement of researchers,ideas, technologies and capital

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Interdisciplinary:

Impact of Internet on Europe e.g. European Research Area

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GEANT Expert Group

task:o articulate a 2020 vision for European Research and

Education networking and will identify an action plan

for realizing this vision members:o iga Turk (chair), Arndt Bode, Vasilis Maglaris, Dorte

Olesen, Roberto Saracco, Peter Tindemans, PedroVeiga

timeframe:

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The Vision ofGEG GANT 2020 is

the Europeancommunications

commons where talentanywhere is able tocollaborate with their

peers around theworld and to have

instantaneous and

unlimited access to

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Goals that Fulfill the Vision

1.Support knowledge communities by providingworld-class connectivity and services.

2.Support the growth of these communities, in

both breadth and depth within Europe, andopening up to talent beyond Europes borders ;3.Push the state-of-the-art of the communications

commons by constant innovation and by

translating this innovation into a competitiveEuropean ICT sector;4.Reorganize to cope with the constantly changing

environment.

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Interdisciplinarity:

Impact of Internet on Scientific Communities also past research:

o open access publishing

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ESPAS Project

Global Tredns2030

interconnected

world

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ociety is organized according to itsommunication means

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an information technology bring about a change from aotalitarian to a democratic system?

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How change happens

innovation

habitualization(gets widely adopted)

objectification

(orgs. start toadapt)

sedimentation(becomes part of

the norms)

(Scotts Institutional Theory, cascade by Tolbert and Zucker)

technological populism

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Interdisciplinary:Throughout History ICTs

were empowering

exclusive technologies wereempowering the centre

democratic technologiesempowered masseso paper in the renaissanceo paper based democracy

internet?

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Interdisciplinary: Summary

Internet and the Built Environment Internet and Broadest European

Political Strategies

Internet and the EmpoweringTalent Internet and Democracy

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Eins, zwei, drei:

The essence oftechnology isnothing

technical