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27.01.25

Einheit der Wissenschaft und echtes Studium generale: Vorlesung an der Universität Basel

Einheit der Wissenschaft und echtes Studium generale, Universität Basel

Das Projekt hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, ein echtes Studium generale von zwei Semestern Dauer an den Hochschulen zu etablieren. Ziel dieses Studiums ist es, Generalisten auszubilden, die dank holistischen Methoden holistische Lösungen vorschlagen und umsetzen können und somit inter- & transdisziplinäre Arbeit vereinfachen. An der Universität Basel wird es dazu im Frühjahrsemester 2025 eine erste Ringvorlesung geben, zu der auch Hörerinnen und Hörer zugelassen sind. Die Vorlesung findet wöchentlich ab dem 20. Februar 2025 jeweils am Donnerstag von 16.15 bis 18.00 Uhr statt: Suche | Vorlesungsverzeichnis Universität Basel

17.01.25

ITD Alliance News Bulletin

ITD Alliance

The 17th January News Bulletin includes

• New Resource: Designing Inspiring Workshops and Courses in Transdisciplinarity: A Guide now available
• Upcoming ITD Alliance events: Toolkits and Methods Quality & Rigour event. 
• Policy and Funding News.
• Relevant Conferences and Events.
• Fellowship Opportunity. 
• New “Member Publications” feature: Announce your “just-out” publications.

15.01.25

13 projects approved for NRP 81 "Baukultur"

NRP 81

The Swiss National Science Foundation has approved 13 projects for the National Research Programme "Baukultur" (NRP 81).

In early December 2024, the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation decided to approve 13 projects for the National Research Programme "Baukultur" (NRP 81), as proposed by the Steering Committee. NRP 81 aims to improve our understanding of processes in the built environment. Specifically, the programme aims to link Baukultur with social and ecological transition and to establish new collaborations and strengthen existing ones with institutions and civil society.

15.01.25

19 projects to foster multidisciplinary research in gender medicine and health

NRP 83

Following recommendation by the Steering Committee, the Research Council has decided to grant 19 projects for a total budget of 9.6 Mio CHF, to foster research in gender medicine and health. The projects will start in early 2025.

Clinical studies, medical education, AI, mental health, ethics, prevention, epidemiology are all coming together to reduce biases on Sex (biological attributes) and gender (sociocultural factors) in the Swiss health system. Of the 32 pre-selected projects, 19 have finally been granted for a total budget of 9.6 million CHF.

15.01.25

Urban Waters: Art and Water in Dialogue at Strandbad Tiefenbrunnen

ZHDK

Students and lecturers from all departments will transform Strandbad Tiefenbrunnen in Zurich into a unique space for connection, experience, and reflection on water as part of Urban Waters from 1 to 23 February 2025.

Urban Waters explores the theme of water in urban spaces, inviting visitors to rediscover the ecological, social, and cultural significance of water through art and sensory experiences. The park at Strandbad Tiefenbrunnen will feature a total of ten art installations. From Friday to Sunday, an extensive programme of performances, readings, workshops, concerts, and more will take place.

The park at Strandbad Tiefenbrunnen is open daily from 7:30 am to 7:30 pm, and all art installations as well as the entire programme are free of charge. Further details and the complete programme can be found on the website.

Urban Waters is supported by the Canton of Zurich as part of the #hallowasser project.

09.01.25

ITD Alliance News Bulletin

ITD Alliance

The 9th January News Bulletin includes:

• New Member Publications
• Upcoming ITD Alliance events
• ITD Conference photos available
• Education and training news
• ITD Alliance member conferences
• and other

09.01.25

New EU project launched: SHIELD: Strategic Health Initiatives for Effective Disease Prevention

SHIELD-Projcet

The groundbreaking SHIELD project, a four-year initiative funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe program, officially commenced on December 1, 2024. With an ambitious mission to revolutionize personalized prevention strategies for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes, SHIELD aims to significantly reduce the global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

Harnessing Technology for Personalized Prevention
SHIELD integrates multimodal data collection and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to develop risk stratification tools, personalized care plans, and behavior-change interventions. The project focuses on secondary and tertiary prevention, empowering patients with early-diagnosed conditions to manage their health effectively. Additionally, insights derived from SHIELD will inform policies with population-wide health impacts.

Key Objectives

1. Advanced Risk Stratification: AI-based tools to predict disease progression and stratify patients into risk categories using diverse data sources.
2. Personalized Care Plans: Patient-specific strategies, leveraging SHIELD’s digital tools and behavioral support systems to encourage adherence.
3. Clinical Validation: Multi-country pilot studies in Spain, Switzerland, and Italy to test SHIELD interventions in real-world healthcare settings.
4. Policy Collaboration: Evidence-based health policies fostering collaboration across healthcare providers, policymakers, and behavioral scientists.

09.01.25

Mountain Research and Development Vol 44, No 4 available online and open access

Mountain Research and Developemt

Articles in this open issue’s MountainResearch section present a framework for assessing the benefits and costs of spring revival in Nepal, analyze Iranian herder households’ livelihood choices with a view to poverty alleviation, and examine the prospects of sustainable tourism in southeastern Serbia’s mountain protected areas. In the MountainAgenda section, authors from the Andean Social–Ecological Observatory Network detail the network’s origins, structure, objectives, and strategies. In the MountainPlatform section, the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences presents its new research concept. Three obituaries and the editorial pay tribute to the journal’s founding editor, Jack D. Ives.

The issue is available online and open access:

https://bioone.org/journals/mountain-research-and-development/volume-44/issue-4

Read about the journal’s section policies, guidelines, and submission procedure at:

https://www.mrd-journal.org/

09.01.25

Four Projects Receive the National Prize for Open Research Data

Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences

The Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences have awarded the National Prize for Open Research Data (ORD Prize) for the second time. The prize recognizes four projects from Swiss research institutions that promote the collaborative and/or interdisciplinary reuse of research data or engage in educational and/or outreach activities related to the reuse of research data.

The award-winning projects for 2024 are Pathoplexus (ETH Zurich, SwissTPH, University of Basel), ROADS (ZHAW), openwashdata (ETH Zurich), and ENAC-IT4Research (EPFL). The total prize money amounts to CHF 21,000.

The awards ceremony took place on 27 November 2024 in Bern.

18.12.24

ITD Alliance President receives award

ITD Alliance

In early December, ITD Alliance President, Professor Gabriele Bammer was recognised with the Peter Baume Award, the Australian National University’s most prestigious accolade, awarded for “eminent achievement and merit of the highest order”.  Specific mention was made of her work on Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S). More Information

12.12.24

Being a “conscious” leader: Three foundational commitments

i2insights

As a leader, are you prone to defensiveness, blame and avoidance? Is your team trapped in a similar pattern? What is the alternative and how to get there?

The Conscious Leadership framework’s 15 commitments (Dethmer, Chapman and Klemp, 2014) offer powerful tools for addressing these questions. Central to this framework is the distinction between operating “above the line,” which involves openness, curiosity, and a commitment to growth, and “below the line,” characterized by defensiveness, blame, and avoidance. The first three commitments—taking radical responsibility, learning through curiosity, and feeling all feelings—serve as foundational steps for leaders and teams to maintain an “above the line” mindset. This post explores these commitments and the associated tools to empower leaders in guiding their teams from below to above the line.

12.12.24

Ways into the future of Citizen Science in Switzerland

Science et Cité

The Office for Citizen Science in Switzerland is celebrating a huge milestone with the report «Citizen Science in Switzerland». From now on, it serves as a working basis for exchanges about ways into the future with the community, as it was the case at a workshop in end of October. The central question was: How can we implement the recommended measures of the report?

12.12.24

Professor Gaetano Lotrecchiano | How can we ensure that scientists in collaborative teams work well together?

International Network for the Science of Team Science

Podcast Episode: Recent studies in team science highlight the importance of individual motivations, reflective practices, and competency development in fostering effective collaborative research. Research conducted by Professor Gaetano Lotrecchiano at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences along with scholars from around the country, sheds light on how researchers can better prepare for and engage in team science, addressing complex challenges in scientific collaboration.

09.12.24

Switzerland to establish a National Competence Centre for Scientific Integrity

swiss academies of arts and sciences

At its meeting on 8 November 2024, the Swiss Conference of Higher Education Institutions passed the Ordinance on Quality Assurance in the Area of Scientific Integrity. This resolved to set up a Competence Centre for Scientific Integrity Switzerland. The Competence Centre will act in an advisory capacity for higher education institutions when it comes to scientific integrity in addition to gathering data on scientific integrity in Switzerland.

27.11.24

Transforming experts into team science leaders

i2insights

Key issues in developing leadership skills are described by Gemma Jiang in this blog entriy. They include the importance of influencing change (taskwork) & influencing a collective (teamwork). Three challenges for team leaders are: 1) lack of formal training in leadership, 2) analysis paralysis ie too many meetings, not enough decisions & action, 3) overlooking importance of self-awareness. Key questions for team leaders are 1) operational affecting, for example, shared vision, facilitating distributed decision making & 2) culture & mindset level affecting, for example, collaborative culture, supporting #boundaryspanning. 

04.11.24

How will AI impact democracy?

TA Swiss

In a new report the European Parliamentary Technology Assessment Network (EPTA) compares 19 countries’ AI policies and technology assessment studies on AI and democracy, with TA-SWISS providing an overview of the Swiss perspective. It is particularly interesting to note that several European countries - Spain, Poland and Denmark among them - are now training their own language models, using local languages and sources to develop tools not just fed by Big Tech data.

01.11.24

Neues CAS an der BFH: Nachhaltiges Public Management

Berner Fachhochschule

Das CAS Nachhaltiges Public Management qualifiziert Sie, komplexe und zukunftsgerichtete Herausforderungen wie bspw. Klimawandel, soziale Ungleichheit oder nachhaltige Beschaffung effektiv anzugehen. Der Studiengang vermittelt Methoden und Instrumente, mit denen Sie Politik so ausgestalten und umsetzen, dass sie dem Wohl der Menschen, der Umwelt und der wirtschaftlichen Stabilität gleichermassen dient. Gestalten, implementieren und managen Sie politische Strategien und öffentliche Dienstleistungen im Sinne der Agenda 2030 und der Sustainable Development Goals.

01.11.24

Agora - where research meets the public

Agora

The Agora scheme aims to foster dialogue between scientists and society. It encourages researchers to communicate their current research to an audience of lay people. Have a look at the Agora map to see an overview of current and upcoming events and activities in Switzerland, which have been realised through Agora projects.

Submission possibilities:

• Agora Rolling Call (CHF 5’000-50'000)
  Submission at any time - 4 months before the start of the project
• Agora Call (CHF 5’000-200’000)
  June - September 2025

Contact:
agora@snf.ch

01.11.24

The TD-Lab Training Program of the Berlin University Alliance is here!

TD-Lab University Alliance Berlin

With this continuing education program for transdisciplinary and participatory researchers of all status groups of the Berlin University Alliance, the TD-Lab – Laboratory for Transdisciplinary Research offers education in five competence areas: practical and theoretical know-how, methods, soft skills and reflection. In the winter semester 2024/25, the series "Participatory Research" as an introduction to different participatory research approaches such as citizen science or real-world labs, as well as the series Breakfast Talks "Transformative Dialogues" form the highlight. The aim is to encourage researchers with different levels of experience to conduct method-based, highly professionalized and more successful transdisciplinary and participatory research.

Here you will find information about our events. Here you can find out more about other offers of the TD-Lab.

30.10.24

Mountain Research and Development Vol 44, No 3 available online and open access

Mountain Research and Development

Articles in the MountainResearch section of this open issue examine perceived impacts and preferred performance of rural–urban change among periurban villagers in highland Peru; present a method to assess cultural ecosystem services potential in river catchments in the Caucasus, applying it in a national park in Armenia; and study assets, motivations, and challenges involved in mountain entrepreneurship in the Lesser Caucasus in Georgia with a view to informing rural development policies. A MountainAgenda article analyzes policies and strategies for sustainable development in mountains across Austria, France, Italy, and Switzerland and provides concrete policy recommendations.

30.10.24

Setting up your team for knowledge integration

i2insights

What kinds of collaborative arrangements best foster knowledge integration? Should you keep your team together by forming one big group to work toward your shared goals? Or should you differentiate tasks by breaking work into smaller components and assign the pieces to sub-groups? How large should sub-groups be and how should they be composed? What types of engagement processes lead to successful knowledge integration?

02.10.24

Establishing, discussing, and sustaining accountability in your team: Seven strategies

i2insights

How can I hold my teammates accountable?

Being willing and able to hold yourself and others accountable depends heavily on the collaborative culture created by the team (see previous i2Insights contribution by L. Michelle Bennett on Mindset matters for interdisciplinary teams: Choose a collaborative one).

Collaborative cultures characterized by psychological safety, transparency, and an ability to engage in productive conflict provide the strongest foundation for accountability. Purposefully defining the team culture, including how the team will integrate the value of accountability and implement behaviors and norms aligned with it, will have a strong return on investment.