The members of the Romanian Association for the Club of Rome attended the Conference “The Global Crisis as seen by Aurelio Peccei”, event held in Bucharest, March 15th, 2011, at 15:00h, at the National Bank of Romania, 8 Doamnei Street, in the assembly hall “Mitita Constantinescu”.
The event was opened by Calin Georgescu, Secretary-General of the Romanian Association for the Club of Rome, with his presentation titled “Addressing the future”. The agenda continued with: “The European Support Centre and its role within the Club of Rome”-Thomas Schauer, Director of the Club of Rome - European Support Centre; “Aurelio Peccei” - Mircea Malita, Vice President of the Romanian Association for the Club of Rome and “The Vision of Aurelio Peccei and Its Implications for Our Future”, Roberto Peccei, Member of the Club of Rome and President of the Fondazione Aurelio Peccei.
The speeches were followed by a press conference and an interactive session in which the conference participants were invited to express their views on the subjects set out by the speakers.
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 7th, 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.
