Please find attached the first announcement sent out in regards to the General Assembly 2012 of the Club of Rome which will be held in Bucharest, Romania, at the National Bank of Romania, from 1^st to 3^rd October 2012. Further information will be available in due course.

Please find attached the Newsletter of the United States Association for the Club of Rome - Issue n. 1 of December 2011 - "Letter from the President".

Calin Georgescu, Secretary General of the Romanian Association for the Club of Rome and Chairman of the Club of Rome - European Support Centre, attended and delivered the welcoming speech to the STRATAGEM Workshop with Dennis Meadows held on September 7^th, 2011, in Vienna.

STRATAGEM is a PC-based management training game on energy environment interactions. It was developed by Dennis Meadows, Donella Meadows, Ferenc Toth, and Norman Marshall. The game provides an opportunity to get accustomed to the management of a complex system and to analyze the effects of decisions on production and consumption of food, goods and energy and concerning investments and trading.

STRATAGEM simulates in a simplified form the national economy of a country that has reached a stage of development like that found widely in Latin America. The game covers a time span of two generations (60 years), split in 12 periods. A cycle of the game consists of one set of decisions by the team (input parameters) and a description of the newly calculated state of affairs at the end of that planning period (output parameters).

The game contains sufficient complexity to tax the analytical and management skills of any participant. It serves to illustrate a number of important guidelines that are easily overlooked in practice when investment programs are developed to enhance the productivity of a region's energy, environmental, and human resources.