WCSA Medal Awards 2024

World Complexity Science Academy – WCSA – is pleased to introduce the 8th Edition of the WCSA Medal Awards

About the Medal Awards

WCSA (www.wcsaglobal.org) promotes, since its foundation on December 14th, 2009, its awards which are delivered when the Edition Committee decides to deliver at the following WCSA Conference in a special ceremony.

WCSA Medal 2024 is structured into the following award categories:

1. The Medal, the “Distinguished and Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award” – for people who provided a distinguished and outstanding lifetime achievement as academics, scholars, top managers, investors, entrepreneurs, top professionals adopting a very complex systemic vision to design, development and implement their works/projects/companies etc.;
2. The Management and Policy for WCSA Growth Medal – reserved to WCSA members only, who, through their commitment, have made a significant contribution to the growth of the association;
3. The Medal in memory of Loet Leydesdorff – for entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, academic scholars, top managers, and top professionals who represent successful cases in the complete realization of multi-helix projects inspired by the Leydesdorff model;
4. The Medal for sustainability – for entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, academic scholars, top managers, and top professionals who, in their activities, enhance sustainability through a complex and multidimensional systemic approach, capable of highlighting the systemic interconnections among the various SDGs.

Past recipients:

The Distinguished and Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award – “the Medal” – was received by:

▪ 1st edition ERVIN LASZLO

▪ 2nd edition KLAUS KRIPPENDORFF

▪ 3rd edition ENRIQUE CACERES NIETO

▪ 4th edition CHRISTOPHER THORNHILL

▪ 5th edition PAOLO DE NARDIS & ABRAM DE SWAAN

▪ 6th edition EDGAR MORIN

▪ 7th edition ALFREDO L. SPILZINGER and JOZEF LERNOUT

More information here: WCSA Medal Awards Page

Guidelines and Regulations for “the Medal”:

Nominors and nominees

Nominors: Only WCSA honorary or regular in good standing members.

Nominees: Internationally renowned figures who have demonstrated mastery in complex systems as an entrepreneur, investor, academic scholar, manager, or professional.

The MEC (Medal Edition Committee)

The MEC for the 8th edition was officially shaped by the WCSA in general assembly in Brussels on September 14th, 2023, and is composed as follows:

1. André Parmo Folloni, PUCPR Member & President
2. Rudy Aernoudt, University of Ghent, Member
3. Ilaria Iannuzzi, Member & Secretary.

Nomination submissions

Nominations should be presented to the MEC by email (wcsa8medalcommittee@gmail.com) and the nomination should be composed of any type of written document which attests to the merit of the nominee, for having led a prestigious career in terms of implementing very complex systemic vision to design and development of their works/projects/companies. These documents must specify the contribution, in terms of merit, of the nominee.

Privacy

The nominor is required not to tell the nominee of his/her nominee status before the MEC assesses and judges.

Ex aequo

The MEC has the power to deliver up to three ex aequo medals for the same category.

Deadline and time scheduling

Nominations should be submitted to the MEC within October 2024, 01st.

The MEC will inform the recipients, private and confidentially within two weeks from the official decision. The recipients will have one week to confirm/deny acceptance, private and confidentially. Then the MEC announces only the accepted medals publicly and announces they will be delivered at the next, 12th WCSA conference.