Founding a NCP Multiversity

Turning The New Club of Paris‘ potential

into Structural Capital

What is a „Multiversity“ ?• A group organised by the New Club of Paris (NCP) initiated by G. Koch met in autumn 2008 (!) at Commerzbank Headquarter Frankfurt (G. Szogs) to first time discuss a new university concept under the headline „Multiversity“

• The NCP idea was on reformation / substitution of university. (NCP Discussion has been taken up by the European Academy of Science on university reformation)

• Aalto (University) Campus of Society Innovation (ACSI) started in 2010 a new „education for innovation“ project under the participation of NCP. Major impulse for the „Multiversity“.

• Multiversity - as a term – was first time introduced by President of the (entire) Universities of California (UC) Clark Kerr in 1963 (!):

„The ‚Idea of a University‘ was a village with its priests. The ‚Idea of a Modern University‘ was a town with intellectual oligarchy. The ‚Idea of a Multiversity is a city of infinite variety… This city is more like the totality of civilization as it has evolved… and movement to and from the surrounding society…“

Why Humboldt KOSMOS University (HKU)?

Kosmos is the German word for Cosmos. A.v.Humboldt’s œuvre had the complete title “Kosmos – Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung” (“Cosmos – the attempt of a physical description of the world”).

Alexander v. Humboldt as a symbolic figure• He and his brother Wilhelm took majorInfluence on the European university education system• He was a real universal and internationalscientist mastering a multitude of disciplines and offering a „grand view“ of the world • He combined on-spot empirical research with systematicscientific classifications and anaylysing relations cross disiplines • He fostered to move South and Middle America in emancipatedself recognition and to become interested in modern science• He used Tenerife as his base and training camp on his first four years‘ research excursion• He started at the age of 57 to compile his life œvre during > 30 years, i.e. was performing main science work in elder age

Inititation on Canary Island of Tenerife using its „Intellectual Capital (Infra-)Structure“

„Volcano early warning signals“ Research, spinning of from the Environmental Research Division of ITER, Tenerife, Canary Islands

Conceptional Basics for the HKU„Didactics“: ACSI related

Humboldt‘s „Multiversity“ = KOSMOS Philosophy

Inspired bythe NCP

Manifesto

Transdisci-plinarymasteringof ‚Grand Challenges‘HKU

1.Ad-vancedStudies

2. NCP Seminars

3.Experience Labs

5.Incen- tive Semi-nars

4. Uni-versitycour-

ses

Five structural & methodogical instantiations of the Humboldt Kosmos University

Instantiation„in real“,starting onTenerife andpotentiallyspreadingout to otherlocations

Instantiation„in virtual“, i.e.

contiuousdiscourse

and performances

via Internet

IAS INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCEDSTUDIES

Studies &Publicationsas a service

Formal Courses forBachelors(in coope-Ration with ULL and F+U)

Events fprProfessionals:„Young meetSeniors“ (in cooperationwith SGM)

Core of the Multiversity:

Case based,solution aimedand project driven seminars,workshops andexplorations(e.g. followingthe ACSI philo-sophy)

Functional Structure of the „Humboldt Kosmos University“ -

a Wisdom Multiversity for Seniors indicates that the Mulitversity shall NOT be structured in faculties /depts.rather than be centered on questions and their methodogical treatments

Ex-perience

Lab for Knowledge

Transfer

Influence Takers, Shareholders, Supporters

DG INFOSOCHKU

Initiation of the 1st HKU Seminar on February 8th, 2012, eveningin Hotel MARITIM, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife

Foreseen interventions by…

• Dr. Ricardo Melchior, President of Tenerife Government

• Prof. Eduardo Doménech Martínez, Rector of the University La Laguna (ULL)

• Prof. Leif Edvinsson, President of the New Club of Paris

• Representative of Top Management of the international MARITIM Hotel group

• Dieter Sauer, Chairman of the international F+U Education Group

• Prof. Günter Koch, General Secretary of The New Club of Paris

Structure of the 1st HKU SeminarOpening: Starting and promoting the venture Parallel m

ain objective:D

efining the future of HKU

HKUDev‘tPlan

Organisational, Intro to the 3 lines of the seminar

Closure: 1. Perspectives of continuation 2. Report

Cross-Exchanging experience from the three lines of discourse

Cross-Exchanging experience from the three lines of discourse

Excursion to the Tenerife Astrophysical Observatory Telescope Area

Evening Conference at University of La Laguna (ULL)

„Spanish Line“:Resilience @ Tenerife

„Spanish Line“:Resilience @ Tenerife

„Philosophy“ based on ACSI

„English Line“:Contributing to Ban Ki Moon‘s challenge

„English Line“:Contributing to Ban Ki Moon‘s challenge

„German Line“Decision Makingin complex env‘ts

„German Line“Decision Makingin complex env‘ts

Enjoyyour own

discoveriesduring the 1st HKU Seminar !

Thank you for your engagement & being with us !

Reservefolie

Zusammenhang Freiburg – Entdeckung Amerikas –

Humboldt

… ab Americo [Vespucci] Inventore ...quasi Americi terram sive Americam (from Amerigo [Vespucci] the discoverer ...as if it were the land of Americus, thus America

Martin Waldseeemüller went to St. Dié

Waldseemüllerin 1507printed

Duke René of Lorraine, well connected to Portuguese nobles, founded in 1505 the „Gymnasium“of St. Dié

Vespucciwrote letter to Renéde Lorraine

Humboldtknew aboutand askedfor re-dis-covering themap of 1507

How America, just having been discovered as the 4th continent, got its name

Zoom intothe „Waldsee-müller Map“

of 1507