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Foundational Statements
It’s a long history of an emergent discipline, thereafter a Complex Systems Institute in Valparaíso, Chile
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Mission
The "Valparaiso Complex Systems Institute" -ISCV- is a centre for the investigation and diffusion of Complex Systems, an organization which develops “cutting-edge knowledge", formulates new paradigms and promotes open scientific discussions among researchers, visitors, graduate and undergraduate students, as well as its diffusion among the executive world and general public.
Is a private, non profit
corporation, founded in 2004, for multidisciplinary collaboration
in subjects of complexity. ISCV
seeks to be inclusive and welcoming, providing facilities and the
scientific settings that encourage cooperation amongst the Institute’s
participants, generating opportunities to interact with other members
from diverse backgrounds and thus, to stimulate scientific development
as new paradigms appearance in the world.
Vision
The ISCV wants
to be and wants to be recognized as a thematic Institute that promotes
investigation of high international quality and
excellence in the topics of its property; it tries to position
itself as an
organization able to generate knowledge and to develop new paradigms
around collective reflection and scientific research.
We visualized
the ISCV, in the medium term, as a worldclass Institution,
wishing that the conversations and developments around complex systems
happen through the ISCV, therefore through Chile and Valparaiso.
Also, we visualized the ISCV, establishing networks of support
and
independent multidisciplinary scientific involvement in the topics
of its competition, towards the scientific and humanistic communities
of our society.
The reason for being and the dream that vitalize the task of the
ISCV is to position scientific research as a reference for the subjects
developed in our society and therefore valorize it; to acquire capacity
of diffusion for the transmission of knowledge and in the long term,
to obtain the necessary identity to hit the world in the scope of
its property.
Main Objectives
The principal interest of the ISCV is to deal only with emergent
areas: research, ideas or paradigms of incipient appearance in the
world. Interdisciplinary: each subject, by its own complexity, must
be covered from several points of view that are complementary. Capacity
of diffusion of the subjects developed in our own society; that the
importance of such is included /understood; that the developed research
has echo in our country. To produce, in the topics of its scope,
science of impact and international quality. To form young researchers
in the area of complexity. Within this framework, more specific purposes
are:
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To create
a rich research environment by promoting open formal and
informal
scientific discussions among researchers,
visitors, graduate and undergraduate students. To provide
facilities and the scientific settings that encourage and
potentiate synergy
amongst the Institute’s participants. To stimulate
and to induce scientific development according to new paradigms
of incipient appearance in the world.
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To establish the Institute as an internationally
recognized site of scientific excellence. To generate an interest
among researchers, graduate students, and postdoctoral candidates
from all over the world to visit and collaborate on long- and
short-term projects.
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To enrich education, scientific and
humanistic research through the formation of young researchers
in stages of development of thesis of undergraduate and postgraduate
degrees.
Policies
Area of Investigation: Complex Systems.
The policy for research in the ISCV is based on cooperative work
and the spirit to share ideas; thus the investigation of the
ISCV is opened and accessible; it needs common participation
and flexible ideologies.
Communications: Due to the geographic dispersion of the scientific
community of the ISCV and to the objective of diffusion, the Institute
will make intense use of new and incipient technologies of information
Growth: In order to preserve the character of the ISCV, the Institute
will limit the growth of the resident population of investigators
who work in residence; it will depend on the progress of work in
course and the capacity of the centre.
Visits: The ISCV is an institution that receives guests in order
to accomplish its mission. The Institute is constantly open to
receive projects and proposals to be developed at the ISCV. The
presence of talented individuals tries to assure the novelty of
the investigation, constructive criticism, and the spread of ideas
and scientific methods to the visitors and thus to their home institutions.
The ISCV constantly invites external experts to work with researchers
from the Institute and to share their knowledge in seminars and
conferences.
Our connections to the external world are made primarily through
our researchers rather than the administration. As such, potential
visitors should first make contact with appropriate ISCV research
colleagues and once productive collaborations are under way, a
research visit can be considered.
Education: The ISCV sets out to complement the scientific education
of other institutions, and thus to assure the development of complex
sciences in our society. Nevertheless, we only support thesis without
granting degrees.
* This document was drafted by the executive and scientific board
of the Valparaiso Complex Systems Institute -ISCV- in July, 2005.
Facilities (Infrastructure)
The ISCV building is located on the Artilleria Hill in Valparaiso,
lent by the Chilean Navy, beside the Naval Museum at 470 Artilleria
Street.
It is a wood-framed period building of approximately 457 m2 in
two stories.
Dating from 1893, the house reminds us of the subtle elegant
French style seen at the end of XIX century.
The first floor, of 250 m2 has 4 reception rooms with beautiful
high ceilings with capacity for 60 people as conference and seminar
rooms. There is also a meeting room, fireplace and kitchen. Floors
are made of Douglas fir and the wooden doors and windows have
the original hardware.
The 208 m2 second floor is divided into 3 large rooms plus an
administrative office, this area provides space for resident
or visiting researchers and students, who are attending specific
schools or developing their final thesis.
The Institute has a wireless Internet connection, several computers,
laser printer, phone line, some office supplies and a small library.
Memoria ISCV 2006
Memoria ISCV 2007
Memoria ISCV 2008
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