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The objective of presentation by Garry Jacobs was to explore the potential for collaboration between the physical and social sciences to arrive at a more cohesive and effective framework by exploring a series of questions, including –
- Is an integrated science of society possible that transcends disciplinary boundaries based on common underlying principles as we find in the natural sciences?
- To what extent can principles of natural science serve as valid models and analogies for the social sciences?
- How are the laws governing society similar or different from the immutable laws of nature identified by the natural sciences?
- How does conscious anticipation impact on the action of causality in human society?
- To what extent does systems theory provide adequate models for understanding conscious human social systems?
- What are the implications of entanglement, complexity and uncertainty in physics for understanding social systems?
The Academy hopes that this meeting will lead to on-going collaboration with CERN on this project.听
From left to right: Maurizio Bona, Rolf Heuer,
Garry Jacobs and Herwig Schopper
On 13 March 2014, Rolf Heuer, the Director-General of CERN and Garry Jacobs, the Chief Executive Officer of WAAS, signed an MOU (in the presence of Herwig Schopper and Maurizio Bona) providing the basis for future cooperation between the two organizations. CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, has become the focal point for more than 10,000 visiting scientists and engineers from all over the world. Since its founding, it not only had the task of supporting scientific cooperation but to promote 鈥榮cience for peace鈥�. WAAS, an international think tank established in 1960, is the only global academy assuring common endeavour to address the challenges and opportunities facing global humanity today and supporting worldwide peaceful scientific cooperation.
In the MOU the two organisations agreed to provide intellectual and technical support for initiatives taken by one institution or the other, and to participate in providing and receiving information resulting from the progress and studies conducted by the other. Some fields have been identified for special emphasis in the development of collaboration between the two institutions. Among them one finds the establishment of interlinks between the natural and human sciences, a better access of women to science, the promotion of scientific and technological education and the creation of scientific networks, with particular focus on developing countries and on youth. The two institutions will collaborate to evolve strategies aimed at expanding the global delivery system for higher education in order to address the rapidly increasing demand and urgent need to improve the quality and relevance of higher education and lifelong education to social life.
Informal contacts between the two institutions had been established before the MOU was signed. CERN was a co-sponsor of the international conference on 鈥淥pportunities & Challenges for the 21st听Century: Need for a New Paradigm鈥� organised by the United Nations in Geneva and 被窝影视福利 on June 3, 2013,
which offered听K. J. Tokayev,听the former Director-General of the United Nations Office in Geneva,听Ivo 艩laus,听the Honorary President of WAAS, and Rolf Heuer, the Director-General of CERN, the opportunity to explain the intentions of the respective institutions in听public talks and to establish first contacts. These were followed later by informal visits of Ivo 艩laus and Garry Jacobs to CERN initiated by Herwig Schopper leading finally to the signing of the MOU.
As a first result of the agreement of cooperation, a colloquium talk by Garry Jacobs was organised at CERN titled 鈥業nsights from the physical sciences and their relevance to the evolution of social science鈥� on 13 March 2014.
Herwig Schopper
Trustee, 被窝影视福利 of Art & Science;
Former Director-General, CERN