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About Seed-Ideas
In September 2010 a small group of Fellows of the South-East European Division of the World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS) established a new journal entitled Cadmus to publish original ideas and perspectives on global issues in search of new ideas with the power to bring about real change. Seed-Ideas website was started as a companion to Cadmus Journal.
The strategic objective of the World Academy is to provide Leadership in thought that leads to action. The purpose of this website is to invite ideas both from Fellows of the Academy as well as the global public on creative ideas and fresh perspectives which possess an inherent power of self-effectuation.
The World Academy of Art and Science was established in 1960 as a non-official network of not more than 650 individual Fellows from diverse cultures, nationalities, and intellectual disciplines, "chosen for eminence in art, the natural and social sciences, and the humanities. Its activities focus on "the social consequences and policy implications of knowledge."
The spirit of the Academy can be expressed in the words of Albert Einstein: "The creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind." Its Fellows share the ambition (as the Founders said in their 1960 Manifesto) "to rediscover the language of mutual understanding," surmounting differences in tradition, language, and social structure which, unless fused by creative imagination and continuous effort, dissolve the latent human commonwealth in contention and conflict.
To this end the Academy serves as a forum for reflective scientists, artists, and scholars to discuss the vital problems of humankind independent of political boundaries or limits, whether spiritual or physical -- a forum where these problems can be discussed objectively, scientifically, globally, and free from vested interests or regional attachments.
The World Academy of Art and Science, said the 1960 Manifesto, "will function as an informal `world university at the highest scientific and ethical level, in which deep human understanding and the fullest sense of responsibility will meet."
Scientific discovery and technological innovation keep developing instruments of unparalleled power for fulfillment or destruction. We humans, more and more, are taking into our own hands the future evolution of our bodies, our minds, the civilizations we create, and the very planet we inhabit. So it is imperative that we guide what we do by what we know, and guide what we know by what we value.
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