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td-net says again goodbye and hello!
This time, we say goodbye to Lydia Moreno. Lydia has been the heart of all communication from td-net. She had the opportunity to concentrate on her work at the > Daylight Academy, where the skills she acquired in td-net hopefully will bear fruit. We thank Lydia for her good work and fantastic support and are looking forward to enlightening cooperation in the future.
On the other hand we are happy to welcome Ursula Schöni in our team. She plays an integral role in several forums of the Platform Science and Policy, as she works for td-net as well as for Swiss Biodiversity Forum and the Forum Landscape, Alps, Parks. With her journalistic background she will take over everything related to communication like td-Info and Website. Ursula will support the office wherever a hand is needed. Due to this change, summer issues may be shorter in this summer season.
td-net team
International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019 - Registration now open
The registration for the International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019 is now open! Do not miss the early bird fees valid until June 30.
The conference is co-organised by td-net, Mistra Urban Futures and the University of Gothenburg and will take place in Gothenburg from 10 to 13 September 2019. The aim of this conference, Joining Forces for Change, is to bring together actors from different professional mandates, disciplines and sectors to engage and discuss on what we can learn from our collaborative experiences, case studies and practices regarding wider societal transformation, methodological innovations and theoretical development.
More information on: www.transdisciplinarity.ch/itd2019
td-net says goodbye and hello!
This month, we say goodbye to our long-time colleague Gabriela Wülser. Gabriela has been responsible for transdisciplinary competencies and methods for knowledge co-production in heterogeneous teams. She substantially contributed to building up our online toolbox. She now moved to the Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT to establish a new initiative on sustainability research. She is happy to have td-net on board as one of the new initiative's key collaboration partners. Gabriela holds a doctorate in philosophy of science and empirical science studies - on sustainability research - from ETH Zurich. We thank her very much for her good work and support, and look forward to further collaboration!
At the same time, we are happy to introduce Sibylle Studer, who has already taken over the lead of the project "Methods and tools for co-producing knowledge" from Gabriela. Sibylle studied Social Anthropology, Management&Economics and International Relations at the University of Zurich with field visits in Togo and Bolivia. After having completed her PhD in nonprofit management, she was involved in policy research for the Competence Center for Research in Energy, Society and Transition (SCCER CREST) and worked in interdisciplinary teams at Interface Policy studies Research Consulting. She is conversant with different stakeholder- and disciplinary perspectives on methods and scientific standards and looks forward to supporting the research community in its attempt to make research more societally relevant. Welcome to the team!
Methods and tools for co-producing knowledge
td-net team
International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019
The conference is co-organised by td-net, Mistra Urban Futures and the University of Gothenburg and will take place in Gothenburg from 10 to 13 September 2019. The aim of this conference, Joining Forces for Change, is to bring together actors from different professional mandates, disciplines and sectors to engage and discuss on what we can learn from our collaborative experiences, case studies and practices regarding wider societal transformation, methodological innovations and theoretical development. Our call for contributions was very successful, since we have received very diverse and high quality abstracts! Our selection will be communicated soon. Registration will also be available in the next few weeks on www.transdisciplinarity.ch/itd2019.
The td-net toolbox gets a new look
A new visual universe brings colour to the td-net toolbox! Especially developped for the portal, the vibrant illustrations reflect the diversity, the dynamism but also the complexity inherent in transdisciplinary collaborations. The recently updated online portal offers a point of entry to more widespread methods and tools that support collaboration between experts and stakeholders from science and practice to tackle societal challenges.
Have a look at the newly illustrated tools
Contribute with experiences and suggestions
Sustainable University Day 2019: tropical vibe and lively exchanges!
Organised in collaboration with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), the Sustainable University Day 2019 brought together more than 150 students, university leaders, policy makers, non-profit actors and other higher education representatives to discuss how universities are responding to the challenges posed by sustainable development and which concrete measures should be taken. In the morning, captivating presentations offered fantastic inputs to stimulate discussion. The rest of the day was devoted to the interactions between the participants. World Café sessions, guided tours, a networking-lounge, a poster exhibition and finally a participative panel discussion gave great opportunities for exchange and mutual learning. A rich program which kept all its promises!
Pictures will be available soon on the event website
Contribute to the International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019
Joining Forces for Change! In line with the motto of the conference, which will take place in Gothenburg from 10 to 13 September 2019, we are inviting contributions from practitioners and researchers who are working in different types of collaborative research and change processes, to gauge the state of the art in both research and practice from across sectors and disciplines. Contributions can be made in the form of session, presentation, poster, installation, workshop, network event or open stage. Submissions from practitioners and from transdisciplinary teams are particularly welcome.
See the call for contributions
Submit your abstract until 24 March 2019
New in the td-net Toolbox: Theory of change
A theory of change (ToC) is a model of a change process. It provides a description and explanation of how and why an activity or a set of activities (such as a project or program) is expected to lead or contribute to a process of change. A ToC is not a single theory but a set of theories that describes and explains the multiple steps in a change process. The approach recognizes that socio-ecological systems are complex, and that causal processes are often non-linear with multiple interactions and feedback loops. The method has been provided by Rachel Claus & Brian Belcher.
More information
Methods matter! Explore the newly structured td-net toolbox
td-net starts building up an online portal that offers a point of entry to more widespread methods and tools that support collaboration between experts and stakeholders from science and practice to tackle societal challenges. Searchable by typical process phases and key issues, it will indicate methods offered both in the td-net toolbox and various other online collections.
Check out the new portal of methods and tools for co-producing knowledge
Participate in exploring more broadly which tasks can be supported by which tools
Send your feedback to td-methods@scnat.ch
Joining Forces For Change! – Call for the International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019
The conference is co-organised by td-net, Mistra Urban Futures and the University of Gothenburg and will take place in Gothenburg from 10 to 13 September 2019. The aim of this conference, Joining Forces for Change, is to bring together actors from different professional mandates, disciplines and sectors to engage and discuss on what we can learn from our collaborative experiences, case studies and practices regarding wider societal transformation, methodological innovations and theoretical development. Therefore we want to bring together the growing body of individuals, groups and organisations who are working in different types of collaborative research and change processes, to gauge the state of the art in both research and practice from across sectors and disciplines, and to create an international forum where diverse groups can exchange experiences and learn from each other.
Practitioners and researchers are invited to propose contributions: www.transdisciplinarity.ch/itd2019.
Sustainable University Day 2019 – Registrations are open!
The Sustainable University Day is the annual meeting of the funding program U Change, which supports student projects and student project incubators for sustainable development. Every year, the Conference brings together students, university leaders, policy makers, non-profit actors and other higher education representatives to discuss how universities are responding to the challenges posed by sustainable development and which concrete measures should be taken. The Sustainable University Day 2019 will be organised on 29 March in Wädenswil in collaboration with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW).
See the program (in German and French)
Register
Swiss Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Day 2018
With a focus on digitalisation, the Swiss Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Day 2018 brought together nearly one hundred people with different backgrounds and from various regions of Switzerland. Three captivating keynote speeches, twenty creative posters and three lively workshops offered fantastic inputs and a space for discussion about what digitalisation means for co-productive modes of research and teaching. Many impressions and comments were shared on Twitter. Have a look at #SwissITD. Thank you to everyone for joining the Swiss ITD 2018! We already look forward to meeting you again at the next edition!
Presentations and posters are available on www.transdisciplinarity.ch/itd2018.
Swiss Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Day 2018 enriched by more than 20 posters!
More than 20 posters reflecting experiences at the interface between transdisciplinarity and digitalisation will be displayed during the Swiss Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Day 2018 on 15 November at the EPFL in Lausanne. Many of them will be presented during the parallel sessions of speed talks.
Do you want to explore with us these experiences and discuss visions how digitalisation can be devised for inter- and transdisciplinary research and education?
Have a look at the updated programme and register by 8 November 2018 at the latest.
Training workshop on transdisciplinary research with LIRA 2030
This year’s LIRA 2030 training workshop on transdisciplinary research took place in Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire with 32 early career researchers from 14 African countries. The training had a focus on enabling participants to design and conduct their own research project. Short inputs on theory, methodology and methods of transdisciplinary research as baseline and videos and presentations of existing TD projects as illustrations were introduced as fundament for a series of interactive exercises on important steps along the transdisciplinary research process, conducted in various settings, such as reflections and work on the own project, group tasks, plenary discussions and role play. Some of the exercises were based on td-net’s toolbox for co-producing knowledge, e.g. actor constellation and three types of knowledge exercises. Td-net was engaged in this training workshop for the third consecutive year and also contributes to the ongoing development of training and coaching activities within the LIRA 2030 programme.
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See also: LIRA 2030 call for scientific and non-academic reviewers
Our Tour d'Horizon of Literature 2017 is now available!
Every year, td-net invites experts in the field to list recent key publications in the area of inter- and transdisciplinarity. The new Tour d'Horizon presents literature published in 2017 with short annotations written by the experts that recommended the publications. We would like to thank the contributors for their inputs and already look forward to renewing the experience next year.
All “Tour d’Horizon of Literature” issues can be found here.
Tour d'Horizon of Literature 2017
Sustainable University Day 2019: save the date!
The Sustainable University Day is the annual meeting of the funding program U Change, which supports student projects and student project incubators for sustainable development. Every year, the Conference brings together students, university leaders, policy makers, non-profit actors and other higher education representatives to discuss how universities are responding to the challenges posed by sustainable development and which concrete measures should be taken. The Sustainable University Day 2019 will be organised on 29 March in Wädenswil in collaboration with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). Save the date!
More information will be available soon
See what happened during the Sustainable University Day 2018
Publication on sustainable consumption and transformative teaching
We are pleased to share with you the publication of A sustainable consumption teaching review: From building competencies to transformative learning. The article written by Marlyne Sahakian and Gill Seyfang addresses transdisciplinary and transformative teaching applied to the field of sustainable consumption and has emerged from a project supported by our former Sustainable Development at Universities Programme.
Link to the article
Publications addressing transdisciplinarity are steadily increasing
Every year, td-net observes the publication activities in the field of inter- and transdisciplinarity. With "transdisciplinar*" and "interdisciplinar*" as search words, we perform a topic search (within: title, abstract, author keywords, Keywords Plus®) in the Web of Science database and present the numbers of publications chronologically in charts. In the recent years, the number of publications show an upward trend. Have a look at our publication radar to see the second chart, displaying the results for „interdisciplinarity“.
NEW in the td-net Toolbox: Outcome Spaces Framework
The outcome spaces framework provides a structure to reflect on, and classify participants’ preferred outcomes in a transdisciplinary project in a differentiated way. Three key realms of transdisciplinary outcome spaces are distinguished – situation, knowledge and learning – elaborated as (1) an improvement within the situation or field of inquiry, (2) the generation of relevant stocks and flows of knowledge, including scholarly knowledge and other societal knowledge forms (3) mutual and transformational learning by researchers and research participants to increase the likelihood of persistent change. The method has been provided by Cynthia Mitchell & Dena Fam.
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Le Sustainable University Day comme levier pour plus de développement durable dans les hautes écoles
Ce jeudi 22 mars, la Haute Ecole pédagogique de Fribourg a accueilli près de 150 personnes à l'occasion du Sustainable University Day 2018. Des idées de projet visant à renforcer la thématique du développement durable dans les hautes écoles et à encourager l’engagement étudiant ont été façonnées et discutées. Les participant-e-s venant de domaines différents, étudiant-e-s ou politicien-ne-s, ONG ou rectorats ont tous travaillé intensivement à renforcer les initiatives en faveur du développement durable au sein des hautes écoles.
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Td-net Toolbx Series
USYS tdLab and td-net are jointly initiating the „td-net toolbox series“, which will consist of sporadic meetings and events in relation with the td-net toolbox for co-producing knowledge.
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Science at Noon mit Gabriele Bammer
Am Mittwoch Mittag, 14.3 - besucht uns Prof. Gabriele Bammer vom Centre for Epidemiology an Population Health der Australian National University. Als Gast vom td-net wird Sie uns die neue Disziplin «Integration and Implementation Sciences (I2S)» vorstellen. Dieser neue Ansatz zeigt neue Wege auf, wie man systematisch Konzepte und Methoden aus den Bereichen Systems Thinking, Inter- und Transdisziplinarität, Implementation Science, Team Science, Complexity Science u.a kombinieren kann, um komplexe Probleme wirksamer bearbeiten zu können.
Mehr über Science at Noon
Swiss Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Day 2018
The next edition of the Swiss Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Day has been fixed! It will take place on 15 November 2018 at the EPFL in Lausanne and will explore the relationship between digital world and inter- and transdisciplinarity. SAVE THE DATE!
Sustainable University Day 2018
Quelles sont les compétences nécessaires à un engagement étudiant ? Comment transmettre ces compétences ? Quel rôle ces dernières peuvent-elles ensuite jouer dans la vie professionnelle ? Ces problématiques seront au cœur du « Sustainable University Day 2018 » du programme « U Change ». La rencontre aura lieu aura lieu le 22 mars 2018 à la Haute Ecole pédagogique de Fribourg.
Programme
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International Transdisciplinartiy Conference 2017
The International Transdisciplinarity Conference in 2017 is co-organised by Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany and the Network for Transdisciplinary Research of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. It is taking place on September 11-15, 2017 at Leuphana University Lüneburg.
The overall objective of the conference is to strengthen communities of transdisciplinary research and education, and to create visibility for theoretical, empirical and transformative advances/results.
Registration is now open, with early bird rates until 31 May 2017!
Td-net publie son rapport annuel 2016
Le nouveau rapport annuel (publié en allemand) donne comme chaque année un aperçu des activités de td-net. Ce document détaillé permet d'en apprendre davantage sur les projets, les offres de mise en réseau et les thématiques qui ont marqué l'année 2016 du Réseau pour la recherche transdisciplinaire.
Lire le rapport annuel 2016
Doing transdisciplinary research: lessons from the frontline - report
On 29 November 2016, Future Earth Ireland, supported by the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), organised a workshop on the topic: Doing Transdisciplinary Research: Lessons from the Front Line. The aim of the event was to provide an update on the activities of Future Earth and to provide an opportunity for an exchange of views on the challenges and opportunities when one is embarking on transdisciplinary research. Td-net was represented among the speakers.
The report from the workshop as well as an accompanying infografic are now availabe to download on the RIA website.
Programme Sustainable Development at Universities
Rapport final
Les universités suisses ont inscrit le thème du développement durable dans leurs priorités et le programme d’encouragement « Sustainable Development at Universities » a certainement joué un rôle à cet égard. Durant ces quatre dernières années, le programme de la Confédération, doté de quatre millions de francs, a soutenu 54 projets. Le rapport final, qui sera présenté vendredi à Bâle, à l’occasion du Sustainable University Day, dresse un bilan positif. Le programme suivant, dédié aux projets étudiants, a déjà publié son premier appel à projets.
Rapport (pdf)
Aperçu des projets soutenus
Nouveau programme « U Change »
Swiss Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Day 2016
HOW TO DEVELOP A SUCCESSFUL INTER- AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY PROPOSAL
Bringing together researchers' and funders' perspectives
Jointly organised by the University of Lucerne and td-net, the Swiss Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Day 2016 attracted no less than 70 participants. Throughout the Conference, which took place at the University of Lucerne on 7 November 2016, researchers and representatives of funding agencies shared their experiences and described their approaches and challenges of inter- and transdisciplinary research projects, especially in their framing phase. Examples were presented from projects funded by the Sustainable Development at Universities Programme and from an open call.
The presentations used during the Conference are now available on the event page.
NEU ERSCHIENEN: Publikationen zum Td-Award 2015
Im Artikel der Zeitschrift GAIA werden die Gewinnerprojekte des td-award 2015 vorgestellt.
Exemplary Transdisciplinary Projects – swiss-academies award for transdisciplinary research 2015
Zinsstag J, Perrig-Chiello P, Paulsen T, Truffer B 2016. . GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, V25, N3, pp 182-184.
Link zu den Artikeln
Eine Tour d'Horizon mit Literatur zu Transdisziplinarität aus dem Jahr 2015
Wir haben Expertinnen und Experten zu Inter- und Transdiziplinarität nach den wichtigsten Publikationen im Bereich inter - und transdisziplinärer Forschung, Lehre und Praxis des Jahres 2015 gefragt. Lesen Sie die kommentierten Vorschläge in der neuen Jahresliste «Tour d'Horizon 2015».
Tour d’Horizon of Literature 2015 (pdf)
Hier finden Sie alle Literaturlisten seit 2005
Future Earth Webinar
Im Rahmen des Future Earth Webinars "Best practices on transdisciplinary and co-designed research" präsentierte td-net eine kurze Einführung in die transdisziplinäre Forschung.
Das Webinar und die Präsentation sind hier verfügbar (in Englisch)