The efforts in finding appropriate solutions undertaken in the course of the current world financial and economic crisis are pinpointing the complexity and systemic interlinkages of todays economical and political structures. In addition the crisis has masked to a certain extent other challenges in ecological, (inter-)cultural and societal arena: the climate change, the cultural and political tensions in many regions of the world, poverty, the scarcity of natural recources and many others are unsolved challenges that likewise are characerized by a multitude of complex interlinkages which rule out easy solutions.
The European School of Governance supports policy-makers and decision-makers in governments, non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations in addressing these challenges through consulting activities, policy seminars and the support of complex reasoning and decision-making processes. It is our goal to build up and maintain a faculty of best experts able to generate the necessary insights and to facilitate progress towards better global governance through superior risk management and systemically-integrated policy development in order to:
- Deliver environmentally and socially sustainable economic growth
- Reduce poverty and improve equity
- Address the core sources of global and national vulnerability, and promote security
- Share the core norms and values that enable global coexistence, and work to reconcile cultural differences; and
- Improve the quality of global governance and the performance of our global institutions.
Increasing complexity and an accelerating pace of structural change constitute qualitatively new (cultural) challenges for which human cognition is – from a biological evolutionary perspective - not well prepared. eusg as a subsidiary of the not for profit Parmenides Foundation research organisation uses the foundations’ Parmenides Eidos methodology as a major constituent of its work in supporting governments and institutions to analyse complex problems, develop strategies and make better decisions. We believe that supporting „good thinking“ can help to adress the described challenges and risks and thus shaping a good future.
