The Education in a

Knowledge based Society

Dr. Florin Munteanu

Center for Complexity Studies- UNESCO center

The Big ProblemWe live in a “turbulent” world - lack of prediction at different scales; - psychological instabilities of people, at all ages and nationalities - an unstable and hostile environment due to the global climate changes

“I think the next century will be the century of complexity.” Stephen Hawking

- the explosion of new technologies, new materials, new products;

-automation at large scale;

- miniaturizations and dematerialization of products (MEMS, nanotechnology, virtual instrumentation, virtual prototyping);

- globalization of productive activities (any time anywhere communications, tele-work, intercultural interactions, acceleration until turbulence of the economical life)

The “exponential” grows of everything

nanotechnologies

Agricultural age

Industrial Age

Information Age

AI

Knowledge-Based Age

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Computers

Material resources

Steam engine

Singularity

Immaterialresources

2020…2040

To manage the sustainable development problem at global scale, in a honest and professional way, we need a new insight, a new PARADIGM

Prof. Alex Zrttl and his team have constructed a fully functional, fully integrated radio receiver, orders-of-magnitude smaller than any previous radio, from a single carbon nanotube. The single nanotube serves, at once, as all major components of a radio: antenna, tuner, amplifier, and demodulator. 

APPLICATIONS

• Radio for mobile, wireless networks, GPS and otherelectronic devices;• Radio remote control for biosensors, medicine andtelemedicine, neuro-

muscular control;• Ultra miniaturized acoustic prosthesis;• RF antennas, adjustable filters, amplifiers, demodulated Mass

Spectrometry;• Chemical Sensors

The Big Shift or… the end of work

Profound changes in the nature of the work - form hard work to ….intellectual and creative activities; - from routine work to…. a stressful confrontation with continues news; - form physical used-up to…. a nervous breakdown

• Volatility of the SME’s in a global and turbulent market; • Increasing fluctuations of the personnel in a company • Continuous and rapid changes in the cultural

values, in attitudes and values

A new paradigm… a critical point for humanity

Structure 1

Structure 2

Critical point

From Complicate to COMPLEX

The science of XX-th century bring up the importance of the Man in the metabolism of the socio-economical system (GAIA vision)

- The science of Complex Systems that define a nonlinear approach on Reality (fractals, chaos theory, dissipative systems, constructal theory etc.)

- Computational science (or scientific computing) that create extraordinary tools for the modeling and simulations of the dynamic and evolutions of real objects

- Quantum physics, Cognitive Science focus on the importance of the Observer and his intentionality on the evolution of the Reality

- The science of Mind – a new approach on the study of the Consciousness and Free Will

The big breakthrough of XX-th century

Latin word complexus, signifies "entwined", "twisted together". This may be interpreted in the following way: in order to have a complex you need two or more components, which are joined in such a way that it is difficult to separate them. Similarly, the Oxford Dictionary defines something as "complex" if it is "made of (usually several) closely connected parts".

Escher

To start with a definition:

Complexity science

The new science of complex systems will be at the heart of the future of the Worldwide Knowledge Society

It is providing radical new ways of understanding the physical, biological, ecological, and social universe.

Living Roadmap for Complex Systems ScienceA social command in E.U.

• a better understanding of the natural environment in which engineered systems exist, e.g. regulation, ethics, markets; and

• a better understanding of the design, engineering and management process which is often itself a creative multilevel complex human system, capable of great successes but inherently liable to spectacular failures.

ONCE-CS

Profile:The Center for Complex Studies (CCS) is a non-profit, non-governmental and non-political organization. It was founded in 1996 as a result of a private, thus being one of the first fully private research institute in Romania.

Mission:The main objectives of CCS are to promote the new paradigm of Complexity and to fill in the gap between theory and applications in this field.

Research fields:•The science of complexity (fractals, chaotic systems, critical systems and noemic systems). • Bioeconomics; Econophysics and Jurisdinamics• Knowledge Society-related prospective research;• New educational methods, technologies and attitudes (e-learning, content design, content management, learning management systems).

CCS - Promoting the Complexity Science and its applications

• Econophysics

2005 – the first summer school on econophysics in Romania

Econophysics is an interdisciplinary research field, applying theories and methods originally developed by physicists in order to solve problems in economics, usually those including uncertainty or stochastic elements and nonlinear dynamics.

• percolation models,

• chaotic models,

• self-organizing criticality,

• information theory,

• heterogeneous agents,

• fluid dynamics,

• quantum mechanics

The first commission: “Complexity Studies in

Economy” – Romanian Chamber of Commerce

• Jurisdynamics

CCS - Promoting Complexity Science and its applications

"the law must be stable, but it cannot stand still."

Roscoe Pound

•So what does complexity theory and its fancy lexicon bring to the table?

•Is it just a metaphor for law, or is it a useful model for explaining the legal system’s behavior?

<<< the first workshop on jursdynamics in the Romanian Parliament

Learning by discoveringa new way to understand Complex Systems

• NEXUS - ProgramBringing Complexity Science in the middle of the students!

• Redefining the teacher – student relationship within a continuous teaching process, specific to the knowledge society;

• Motivating the educational act by:

• stimulating the curiosity and interest for science and technology;• involving schoolchildren and students in effectively solving real problems, of community interest, problems that imply concepts, models and techniques generated by Complexity Science research

A NONFORMAL education for a TRANSDISCIPLINARY approach

The Atlantykron Summer Academyprospective science and futurology

Building a bridge between Science & Art

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The Researchers' Night is an event bringing together the public at large and researchers. It occurs annually on the fourth Friday of September all over Europe. Its main objective is to reveal scientists and science in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

Bucharest, Romania

Non-formal education for a knowledge based society

Our philosophy

Academic level Society, market

Open Projects

Doctoral level

University level

Highschool level

Secondary level

Sicence for kidsHobby

Etc…

. themes: define the strategic assets of permanent interest made  byCSC.•  seeks developers, and / or are currently unfeasible, but may become long term assets.

Center for Complexity Studies

The NEXUS program brings as novelty an ensemble formed by:

NEXUS room - space dedicated and equipped especially for: documentation, courses, multidisciplinary dialogue and consulting, lab experiments (the activity in the room would be organized on groups structured around various subjects chosen from the Open Projects database supplied by CSC especially for the NEXUS-T program)

The complex teaching object (OBC) – hard/soft ensemble that allows experimental, multidisciplinary exploration of the processes and phenomena of interest, according to the topics selected from an Open Project. (OBC was projected in a way that enables creativity stimulation and formation of new abilities: attention, ability to correlate the knowledge gained during the course,

Training programs for teachers – intensive courses (including e-learning) for assimilating concepts and notions necessary for the use of the infrastructure and the software that accompanies an ODC, for completing the curriculum with novelties, especially from the Complexity science, and for correlating the various primary knowledge through an integrating, multidisciplinary approach.

The 2011 Nexus –T program

The tree - a biological sensor for earthquakes predictions

Vreancea zone- a geophysical natural laboratory

Short-term prediction (hours to weeks) was successful in very few cases where precursory phenomena were evidentIntermediate-term prediction (one month to 10 years) is considered fair for well monitored regions.Long-term prediction (10-30 years) is considered good for high slip rate faults but poor for very low slip rate tectonic provinces.

Prediction = Position+ Intensity + Time

The Geodynamic Observatory - CALDARUSANI

A laboratory for the studies of the Quality of a Natural environment by the use of complexity science tools

-Noise can synchronize biochemical reactions

-Synergic behavior of parts can define the quality of the whole system

-Chaotic resonance can play an important role in the biorhythms of living systems (an interesting coupling between living and nonliving systems – the Gaia view)

Artificial Intelligence & Seismic monitoring system

Obs:The energy discharged by each seismic event is radiated/transferred to

neighboring systems of equal or inferior hierarchical position. To understand the evolution of a seismic region it is necessary a

network of complex monitoring system.

The web-page

The schedule

Heart - chaotic oscillatorCommunication by synchronizing chaotic oscillators

First Nexus program in a high school

2002

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