Links to Other Organisations

This page lists other organisations with interests that intersect with those of Integration and Implementation Sciences.

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• Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning & Advanced Studies
  • Acronym: TheATLAS.
  • Summary: TheATLAS is a non-profit organisation (with an engineering base) which aims to support education and research in transdisciplinarity, towards meeting the complex challenges of design and practice engineering faces in the world today. TheATLAS collaborates with the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) and the Software Engineering Society (SES).
  • Web address: http://theatlas.org/index.php
  • Location: Lubbock, Texas, USA.


• Australian Centre for Dialogue (Project)
  • Acronym: None noted.
  • Summary: A space (under development) for dialouge on the big issues of today.
  • Web address: http://www.anu.edu.au/dialogue/
  • Location: Parliamentary Zone, Canberra, Australia.


• Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
  • Acronym: ARACY.
  • Summary: A collaboratory grouping of researchers, policy makers and practitioners from across Australia who are focused on improving the lives of Australia’s children and youth.
  • Web address: http://www.aracy.org.au/
  • Location: West Perth, Australia.


• Bureau of Rural Sciences
  • Acronym: BRS.
  • Summary: Part of the Australian Commonwealth Government, BRS is an agency that provides support towards more competitive and sustainable natural resource use alongside strengthening rural and regional communities nationally.
  • Web address: http://www.daff.gov.au/brs
  • Location: Canberra, Australia.


• Centre for Complex Systems Science (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
  • Acronym: CSIRO CSS.
  • Summary: The CSS is a network of CSIRO scientists who collaborate on complexity science issues, involving education, joint project work and networking opportunities. Issues covered range across social-ecological and physical systems, biological complexity and core complex systems science thinking, with a particular focus on, for example, agent based modeling, network theory, cellular automata and dynamical systems.
  • Web address: http://www.csiro.au/science/ComplexSystemsScience.html
  • Location: Canberra, Australia.


• Coalition Theory Network
  • Acronym: CTN.
  • Summary: An association of eight organisations interested in furthering research on the theory of coalition formation plus the promotion of collaboration amongst scholars interested in such (the six organisations are the: Center for Operation Research and Econometrics; Department of Economics at University of Warwick; Équipe Universitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative; Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; and, Université de Marseille).
  • Web address: http://www.feem-web.it/ctn/
  • Location: Milan, Italy.


• Cognitive Edge
  • Acronym: None noted.
  • Summary: Cognitive Edge is the new name (as of 2006) of the IBM initiated Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity. Cognitive Edge is a network that utilizes cognitive science, the science of complex adaptive systems, anthropology and philosophy in the creation and practice of methods for dealing with issues and problems confronting organisations.
  • Web address: http://www.cognitive-edge.com/
  • Location: Singapore.


• Global University Network for Innovation
  • Acronym: GUNI.
  • Summary: GUNI is a global network of organisations dedicated to innovation in higher education. It was set up in 1999 by UNESCO, the United Nations University (UNU) and the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).
  • Web address: http://www.guni-rmies.net/
  • Location: Barcelona, Spain.


• Haines Centre for Strategic Management
  • Acronym: None noted.
  • Summary: A global, strategic management consulting company that has at its core a focus on systems thinking which serves to integrate the companies approach to strategic management. The Centre provides services across consulting, training, publications, strategic assessments, and keynoting/presenting within an underlying context drawing from general systems theory.
  • Web address: http://www.hainescentre.com/
  • Location: San Diego, California, USA.


• Health Research for Action
  • Acronym: HRA.
  • Summary: HRA is focused on undertaking and using research in public health to deal with disparities in health systems and to build the health of communities generally. It has a strong participatory approach and interest towards involving local communities in achieving better health outcomes. HRA is part of the University of California - Berkeley, School of Public Health.
  • Web address: http://healthresearchforaction.org/
  • Location: Berkeley, San Fransisco, USA.


• Integral Institute
  • Acronym: None noted.
  • Summary: The Integral Institute is building to become a locus for a wide variety of services aimed at integrated thinking and practice to deal with the many critical and complex issues confronting us today. The Institute brings together a large number of systems for forwarding integral/integrated actions and which includes a university setting and multimedia website incorporating a range of discursive and visual components. It is strongly associated with the work of Ken Wilber.
  • Web address: http://www.integralinstitute.org/
  • Location: United States of America.


• Institute for Sustainable Futures
  • Acronym: ISF.
  • Summary: A transdisciplianary research institute focused on supporting the development of sustainable futures through working with government, business and community. ISF uses a variety of approaches/principles, such as triple bottom line assessment, backcasting, holism, visioning, systems thinking, transdisciplinarity and futures studies to reach its goals.
  • Web address: http://www.isf.uts.edu.au/
  • Location: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.


• Institute Para Limes
  • Acronym: IPL.
  • Summary: The Institute Para Limes is dedicated to building a community of researchers towards exploring and developing multi-disciplinary methods across the sciences and more broadly promoting the emergence of new sciences in dealing with the future challenges faced by humanity.
  • Web address: http://www.paralimes.org/
  • Location: Warnsveld, The Netherlands.


• Integration and Application Network
  • Acronym: IAN.
  • Summary: A network of scientists interested in dealing with environmental issues through both research and practice. Has a primary focus on Chesapeake Bay, USA.
  • Web address: http://ian.umces.edu/
  • Location: Center for Environmental Science, University of Maryland, Cambridge, MD, USA.


• International Systems Institute
  • Acronym: ISI.
  • Summary: ISI is focused on supporting 'participatory social systems design', a technique of inquiry and 'a way of life' (see the website for more details). It is a collective of individuals and organisations that supports research and broad ranging discourse on learning regarding the design of social systems.
  • Web address: http://www.systemsinstitute.com/
  • Location: California, United States of America.


• iScale
  • Acronym: None noted.
  • Summary: A network organisation made up of a variety of people from different organisations and some dedicated staff. Has a focus on social and community change for the public good across differing geographical, sectoral and functional areas with a focus on scaling effort to achieve suitable outcomes/solutions.
  • Web address: http://www.scalingimpact.net/
  • Location: Boston, USA - but global focus.


• Land and Water Australia
  • Acronym: LWA.
  • Summary: A Commonwealth Government research and development organisation focused on forwarding sustainable natural resource management across Australia.
  • Web address: http://lwa.gov.au/
  • Location: Canberra, Australia.
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• Learning Development Institute
  • Acronym: LDI.
  • Summary: LDI is focused on supporting and developing learning processes broadly, through both research and practice. There is an explicit aim to widen the understanding of learning to incorporate not only the individual, but also the social dimensions of learning via the idea of learning communities.
  • Web address: http://www.learndev.org/
  • Location: Michigan, United States of America.


• Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
  • Acronym: None noted.
  • Summary: A New Zealand environmental research organisation and one of nine Crown Research Institutes funded by the New Zealand government. The web address below is to their collaborative learning for environmental management page, which deals with social research into environmental decision making, most notably in the uptake of research information.
  • Web address: http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/research_details.asp?Research_Content_ID=38
  • Location: Lincoln, New Zealand.


• Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
  • Acronym: None noted.
  • Summary: A conference centre and a space for dialogue, which has an underlying focus on developing an understanding about how quality communication can be fostered.
  • Web address: http://www.sfu.ca/dialog/
  • Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.


• Plexus Institute
  • Acronym: None noted.
  • Summary: A not-for-profit organisation dedicated to exploring and promoting the understanding of complex adaptive systems. Has a strong focus on using an understanding of complexity in daily life.
  • Web address: http://www.plexusinstitute.org/
  • Location: Allentown, New Jersey, USA.


• Social and Organisational Learning as Action Research
  • Acronym: SOLAR.
  • Summary: Focused on using action research and co-inquiry in supporting change in organisations and society broadly.
  • Web address: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/solar/index.htm
  • Location: University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, Bristol, UK.


• Transdisciplinarity-Net
  • Acronym: td-net.
  • Summary: Td-net aims to advance research into transdisciplinarity as well as to explore (public) problems using transdiciplinary thinking.
  • Web address: http://www.transdisciplinarity.ch/
  • Location: Bern, Switzerland.


• Transdisciplinary Case Study Research
  • Acronym: TCSR.
  • Summary: TCSR focuses on developing and research into transdisciplinary decision support methods and tools for dealing with complex, socio-material problems.
  • Web address: http://www.uns.ethz.ch/res/tdcsl/tcsr
  • Location: Zurich, Switzerland.

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