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Energy-Connect: die neue Schweizer Projektbörse für Energieprojekte

Sind Sie Teil eines Unternehmens der Energiebranche oder in der Energieforschung tätig? Dann ist "Energy-Connect" genau das richtige für Sie! Auf der neu lancierten Plattform haben Studierende, EnergieforscherInnen sowie Unternehmen und Start-ups die Möglichkeit, Projektvorhaben zu teilen, andere Ideen zu unterstützen und vor allem die richtigen Partner aus Forschung und Praxis zu finden. Die Pilotphase läuft während den nächsten sechs Monaten bis Ende September. Feedbacks zu Verbesserung der Plattform und Erweiterungswünsche sind sehr willkommen.

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New Issue: GAIA Special Issue S1/2018 on Labs in the Real World

At the science-society interface, new forms of experimental and transdisciplinary research approaches, so-called society-based laboratories, have been established to accelerate transformations towards more sustainable societies. This GAIA special issue “Labs in the Real World”, funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg, brings the growing international research community together. They discuss questions such as transdisciplinarity and learning dimensions, as well as the transformative potential of such labs in a large variety of empirical and theoretical investigations. GAIA Editor Ortwin Renn puts it in a nutshell: “Real-world labs are a viable and promising concept for realizing the vision of transdisciplinary research“.

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Latest contributions to the I2Insights blog

Interested in tips to convince your examiners about the value of your transdisciplinary PhD? How about using risk for transdisciplinary assessment? Or a discussion on transdisciplinarity and transformation, including whether transdisciplinary research can legitimately set out to change society and what research participants should be called? And finally how can the notion of evil help us understand incommensurability in inter- and trans-disciplinary research?

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GAIA Best Paper Award 2017

Congratulations to Wolfgang Krohn, Armin Grunwald and Martina Ukowitz who are the winners of the GAIA Best Paper Award 2017 for their article Transdisziplinäre Forschung revisited: Erkenntnisinteresse, Forschungsgegenstände, Wissensform und Methodologie.

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iScience: a new interdisciplinary, open access journal

Cell Press launches the first issue of iScience, a new interdisciplinary, open access journal. iScience publishes basic and applied research that advances a specific field across life, physical, and earth sciences.

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Forschungspreis Transformative Wissenschaft

Bewerbungsfrist: 14. Mai 2018

Der Forschungspreis "Transformative Wissenschaft" zielt auf alle Formen von Forschung ab, die gesellschaftliche Impulse auslösen und fördern und dabei die Zivilgesellschaft einbeziehen. Eine bedeutende Rolle spielen hier transdisziplinäre Forschungsdesigns. Dotiert ist der Forschungspreis mit 25.000 Euro. Dieses Geld kommt Preisträgerinnen und Preisträgern für Projektideen im Bereich ihrer transformativen Wissenschaft zugute. Das Wuppertal Institut vergibt 2018 zum zweiten Mal den Forschungspreis, der von der Zempelin-Stiftung im Stifterverband gefördert wird.

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Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership – Call for applications

Submission deadline: 15 April 2018

The Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership is a unique European program that trains the next generation of leaders in sustainability research. It provides an intensive training with four seminars in two years that broaden the research competencies of early-career researchers and promote their qualification towards transdisciplinary leadership. The program also offers seed funding to groups of participants planning to initiate research collaborations. Furthermore, an active network of current and former participants of the program will be established.

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Call for abstracts: "Social innovations in energy transition through transdisciplinary research"

Deadline for abstract submission: 1 March 2018

The Leibniz Research Alliance is hosting an international conference entitled "Breaking the Rules! Energy Transitions as Social Innovations". The conference will take place on 14 and 15 June 2018 at Berlin Social Science Center (WZB).
The session "Social innovations in energy transition through transdisciplinary research" aims at elaborating experiences, potentials but also shortcomings of transdisciplinary research approaches in the context of energy transitions. It welcomes contributions of ongoing and finished projects and provides a platform for success stories, failed stories and open questions. With respect to the topic of the conference, the organisators are especially interested in contributions in the social innovation context.

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EASST 2018 Conference: Call for papers

Submission deadline: 14 February 2018

At this year’s meeting of the European association for the study of science and technology (EASST) in Lancaster (25-28 July), contributors from science and technology studies, transdisciplinary studies, and related fields are invited to join the panel “Co-Creation of Legitimacy, Legitimacy of Co-Creation - Double Remedy or Double Crisis?”. In between academic and democratic institutions, cross-cutting collectives engage in 'co-creation': they collaboratively create shared problematics of politics and research. The panel discusses how co-creation is transforming or perpetuating legitimacy crises in academia and democracy.

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I2S News

The January/February I2S News is available. It presents a tool for understanding political context and provides information on the Journal of the Operational Research Society and the UK Implementation Network, as well as the 2018 Science of Team Science conference. These have all recently been added as resources to the Integration and Implementation Sciences website.

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YouRTD: early-career researchers and practitioners exchange about transdisciplinarity

YouRTD is a new e-mail list initiated by participants of the Forum for Young Researchers engaging with Transdisciplinarity which was part of the International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2017. This list aims at continuing the exchanges and sharing knowledge about theory and practice of transdisciplinary research and work. It is primarily intended for early-career (to-be) researchers, practitioners, activists, artists and PhDs who are already conducting or are interested in conducting any modes of transdisciplinary research, but is of course open to experienced researchers and practitioners as well.

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APA Prize for Interdisciplinary Team Research: call for applications

Application deadline: 1 May 2018

The American Psychological Association's Prize for Interdisciplinary Team Research recognizes an interdisciplinary research team that includes one or more psychological scientists in major roles and has produced significant scientific work. The team selected for the prize will receive $5000 to help support its continued research.

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Education for Sustainable Development at the University of Bern

Sustainable Development (SD) cannot be determined from the top down: like others in the field of ESD, we envisage it as a democratic search, learning, and shaping process involving all of society – aimed at shaping alternative pathways. The University of Bern has a role to play in this process and supports integration of SD in teaching. Its ESD team offers a platform, provides advice, and organizes workshops. Feedback is welcome: sustainability@cde.notexisting@nodomain.comunibe.notexisting@nodomain.comch.

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Climanosco: Klimawissenschaften für jedermann zugänglich machen

Climanosco ist eine in Zürich gegründete Non-Profit-Organisation und ein wachsendes Netzwerk von Klimawissenschaftlern und engagierten Individuen, die gemeinsam daran arbeiten, Klimawissenschaften für jedermann kostenlos zugänglich zu machen. Climanosco ist bis zum 31. Dezember bei Crowdfunding, um die anstehenden Projekte zu finanzieren, einschließlich der nächsten Sammlungen kostenloser Publikationen.

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The Diversity of Empathy: a documentary video

The European Society of Literature, Science and the Arts has realised a short documentary film, using interviews of experts conducted during the SLSAeu Conference "Empathies", 2017 at the University of Basel. The video describes the many aspects of empathy with an inter- and transdisciplinary approach.

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Team Science Education and Training has a Facebook page

The goal of this Facebook page is to share articles, resources, experiences and commentary relevant to teaching and training scientists and others how to work in teams. The main, but not exclusive, focus is embedding teamwork, communication, leadership and management skills into core undergraduate and postgraduate education, with particular emphasis on science students.

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AR+ Organizing Futures Co-lab

Action Research Plus is inviting new participants to an emerging community of inquiry/practice for those interested in supporting new ways of organizing to meet the challenges of our times. This includes facilitating transformations of our social, economic and political systems for a more sustainable future on the planet, and more democratic organizing in the contemporary work arena that bring reflection and action cycles to the work of “liberating” organizations for a more sustainable world.

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Daylight Academy: an interdisciplinary platform for daylight research

Officially launched one year ago, the Daylight Academy aims to promote international, inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation among scientists, architects and other professionals within daylight research or with a strong interest in daylight related topics. The platform is a spin-off of the Velux Stiftung and wants to strengthen daylight research and its applications for the benefit of humanity and nature. A first publication with the title Changing perspectives on daylight: Science, technology and culture has just been published as a supplement to the Science Magazine.

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Team Science Glossary: a second edition with your help

The Team Science Glossary needs a rehash, with several words now gaining further definitions as the field grows. It should become a multidimensional resource that everyone can find useful and, for that, it needs your input!
Take a look at the definitions provided in the first edition at the i2insights.org blog and do not hesitate to leave a comment at the bottom of the blog with your alternative definitions.

First edition of the Team Science Glossary

New initiative to exchange about transdisciplinary research in the Global South

Involved or interested in transdisciplinary research in the Global South? Join the newly created online forum on Google Groups. Members of this platform can take part in the discussion and create new topics very simply from any e-mail address. The group can be found on Google Groups under the label "tdGlobalSouth".

Register directly on Google Groups or by sending an e-mail to Willington Ortiz.

KNOTS – Fostering multi-lateral knowledge networks of transdisciplinary studies to tackle global challenges

An Erasmus+ Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education project, University of Vienna

Project KNOTS links partners from five countries in Southeast Asia and Europe to address new challenges in a rapidly changing world. The project aims at establishing vibrant and dynamic knowledge networks of multi-lateral and transdisciplinary studies. The Consortium intends to develop and enhance transdisciplinary research and teaching methodologies within the topics migration, resource degradation, and social inequality.

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Learn more about the Intereach community (Interdisciplinary Integration Research Careers Hub), a relatively new exchange platform in the interdsciplinary field

The Intereach community brings together practitioners and researchers of interdisciplinary integration - people who connect across teams, disciplines, and sectors to solve problems requiring diverse expertise. It offers space to share best practices, success metrics, and ideas for establishing intereach career paths.

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New interdisciplinary PhD School at the University of Geneva

This new doctoral program meets the needs of researchers and students wishing to continue their academic careers in the fertile path of interdisciplinarity. Just like other academic institutions which recently developed interdisciplinary doctorates, the University of Geneva intends to prepare a new generation of researchers to think about contemporary problems related to globalization which lay at the touching points of different disciplines.

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New research project about transdisciplinarity: Enhancing transformative research for sustainable development: mutual learning within research networks

In recent years, td research has been buoyed by a tailwind from the international Future Earth research platform which stresses that knowledge for sustainability transformations should be co-produced in transdisciplinary ways. However, representatives and members of Future Earth are highly challenged to implement transdisciplinary approaches within their own structures and creating conditions which are truly favourable for transdisciplinarity. In order to address this gap and advance the potential of Future Earth to foster sustainability transformations via transdisciplinary research, we have started to implement a research project aiming to facilitate broader learning processes about how Future Earth and its members can integrate transdisciplinarity in their structures. These learning processes are facilitated through joint reflection between representatives of Future Earth, its members, td experts, and societal actors. Discussions between these actors are nurtured by their own experiences and insigths from new research which will be jointly defined with the participants.

Contact: PD Dr. Flurina Schneider and Dr. Theresa Tribaldos, Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland.

Mercator Awards für interdisziplinäre Forschung an der Universität Zürich vergeben

Der Graduate Campus der Universität Zurich und die Stiftung Mercator gratulieren drei Nachwuchsforschenden zur Verleihung der Mercator Awards 2017:

• Irene Garonna für ihre Arbeit «Global dynamics of land surface phenology and its climatic constraints»,
• Dr. Stefan Leins für seine Arbeit «Cockpits of Capitalism: An Ethnography of Financial Analysis»,
• Dr. Timo Mennle für seine Arbeit «Incentives and Efficiency in Markets without Money».

RCE Vienna launches the Playpark Sachsenplatz

The RCE Vienna at the Institute for Ecological Economics at the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business is currently working on CERIecon – an ERDF co-funded project which creates seven playparks offering training and mentoring for start-ups in Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland and Slovakia. Vienna sees the Playpark as a learning, teaching and experimenting space for students who focus specifically on sustainability issues, social innovation and social inclusion. Everything is done in the spirit of transformative education, where transdisciplinarity is one of the key pillars.

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Wissenschaftler empfehlen, die Biodiversitätsforschung stärker als bisher transdisziplinär auszurichten

Aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse zeigen, dass die Ursachen für den fortschreitenden Verlust der biologischen Vielfalt vor allem in fehlendem oder unsicherem Wissen über die komplexen Verbindungen zwischen Natur und Gesellschaft liegen. Wissenschaftler empfehlen daher, die Biodiversitätsforschung stärker als bisher transdisziplinär auszurichten.

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Video Clips from the Research Fair on the 2030 Agenda

Swiss Agency Development and Cooperation produced two videos about the Research Fair on the 2030 Agenda - a short video (2'30") as well as an extended version (7'39") with more in-depth information about the Research Fair.
Stakeholders from the science, development and policy worlds gathered together to explore the best ways to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda during the second Research Fair on 9 November 2016 at SDC's head office in Bern, Switzerland.
The Research Fair was organised by SDC and KFPE.

Der SNF startet das Nationale Forschungsprogramm "Antimikrobielle Resistenz". Das Ziel: neue Lösungsansätze, damit Antibiotika weiterhin wirken.

"Die Schweiz verfügt über hervorragende Forschende auf den verschiedenen Gebieten, die für die Lösung der Resistenzproblematik bedeutend sind", sagt Christoph Dehio, Präsident des NFP 72. "Mit einem koordinierten Effort können wir deshalb einen wesentlichen Beitrag leisten, um Antibiotikaresistenzen hier und weltweit zu überwinden." Zu diesem Zweck vereint das NFP 72 Human- und Tiermediziner, Biologen sowie Umweltwissenschaftlerinnen, die fächerübergreifend zusammenarbeiten.

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SAMW-Award «Interprofessionalität im Gesundheitswesen»

Want to find out more about problem framing, key readings in interdisciplinarity, a knowledge ecology framework, when to trust a model, experience-based co-design, change and research impact and more?
> Read the most recent blog posts on the Integration and Implementation Insights (I2Insights) blog

The I2S YouTube channel has two new playlists

Integrating sustainable development into teaching at the University of Bern
> Guidelines now available

Want to find out more about achieving impact, using analogies for problem solving, how to integrate, pragmatic complexity, a governance compass and more?
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Want to find out more about integration, making predictions under uncertainty, funding for interdisciplinarity, becoming “translational”, scoping, social science contributions to interdisciplinarity, or teaching interdisciplinarity?
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Das r4d-Programm des SNF stellt sich vor

Want to find out more about systemic co-creation, art and participatory modelling, dispositional attributes for translational ecology, the difference between participation and co-production, or the benefits of multidisciplinarity?
> Read the most recent blog posts on the Integration and Implementation Insights (I2Insights) blog

News about H2020 SIMRA

Microsite on the 11 Principles & 7 Questions and a Youtube Channel

Want to find out more about participology, translational ecology, modelling, serious gaming or co-production
> Read this month’s essays on the Integration and Implementation Insights (I2Insights) blog

"Transformation der Wissenschaft" - ein Dossier des oekom verlags

Neues Forschungsprojekt „PlastX“: Wie ist ein nachhaltiger Umgang mit Plastik möglich?

Future Earth Webinar

Interested in co-creation, facilitation, unknowns, mental models or interdisciplinary case studies?
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Interested in accountabilities for funders, research end users and researchers working together in transdisciplinary research?
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Drei Mercator Awards an Nachwuchsforschende der Universität Zürich verliehen

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"It's the umanities, stupid" – Was die Geisteswissenschaften leisten
> 18 Fragen und Antworten zu den Geisteswissenschaften

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Interdisziplinäre Forschung: Neuausrichtung von Sinergia
Eingabetermine: 1. Juni und 1. Dezember.

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