Calls

30.11.24

Call for Abstracts: “Understanding Academic Freedom – Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Regional Perspectives"

Consortium of Higher Education Researchers - CHER

In recent years, academic freedom has gained significant global attention as both autocratic regimes and rising populist movements in democratic nations have posed serious threats to it. Despite efforts from various organizations and policymakers to safeguard academic freedom, the situation has worsened globally. Although much scholarly work has been done on this topic, there remains a substantial gap in cross-regional dialogue, understanding the sources of these threats, and exploring empirical trends on a global scale. 

This special issue seeks to foster a comparative and comprehensive understanding of academic freedom, with contributions from multiple disciplines and regions. We invite scholars to submit abstracts that address these concerns through diverse disciplinary lenses or offer cross-country or regional analyses. 

Submission Deadline: 30 November 2024

21.10.24

Call for Contributions: How to do Social Learning in a Digital World? Designing Inclusive Platform Politics and Infrastructures towards Environmental Justice

SNF Research Group: Social ocean Energy

Mainstreaming sustainable ways of inhabiting this earth will require multiple economic and political transformations. It also requires new ways of knowledge production - and putting that knowledge to work. The concept of social learning points to a broad, collective learning process between communities, experts and governments. It builds on transdisciplinarity by setting a more ambitious goal: you know you have social learning happening, when relatively passive knowledge moves into knowledge as (collective) doing. As an artist, farmer or anthropologist might say: you know that you have really understood something - when you can do it. The social learning concept represents a complex ambition and highly dynamic field. It is, after all, a reformulation of a very big question: how do people, how can societies change peacefully? How can we effectively pursue intentional change in a non-violent manner?

This workshop will run from the afternoon of Monday 16th December through Tuesday and finish with lunch on Wednesday 18th December. We intend to create both an academic publication and accessible output for a wider audience. Please submit a title and 250-word description of your contribution by 21st October here. Please also indicate whether you require visa support, funding for travel and accommodation. Feel free to email the workshop team with any questions: socialoceanenergy@gmail.com.

Deadline for Contribution-Description: 21 October 2024

15.11.24/01.04.25

Call for papers: Mountain Tourism—Trends and Transformations Toward Sustainability and Resilience

MRD

What are current trends in mountain tourism and how do they impact communities and ecosystems amid global change and overtourism? How can tourism be codeveloped and governed to benefit mountain livelihoods while protecting cultural and natural heritage? Mountain Research and Development invites empirical analyses of tourism trends and impacts, systematic assessments of transformative solutions for sustainable tourism, and review-based agendas for future policy, development action, or research on tourism. Notices of intent are due by 15 November 2024, full papers by 1 April 2025.

Read the detailed call for papers:

https://www.mrd-journal.org/issue/mountain-tourism-trends-and-transformations-toward-sustainability-and-resilience/

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

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

31.03.25

Call for Applications: 3 Month Executive Diploma Program 2025

Institute for Peace and Dialogue

Institute for Peace and Dialogue (IPD) call for applicants from all over the world countries to join 3 Month Executive Diploma Programs for 2025 Year Intake which surrounding special instruction focus to give the participants valuable education, wide professional experience and fruitful network which graduates can apply their gained skills to build successful worldwide career in state, private and public sectors in numerous positions as Senior Manager, Diplomat, Judge, Mediator, Arbitrator, Human Resources Manager, Case Manager, Program Coordinator, Public Relations Manager, Mentor, Coacher and etc. relevant jobs in middle, senior and executive level.

Applicants can choose and study one or more of the following mentioned Diploma Program:
- Diploma in Conflicts Management & Mediation (CMM)
- Diploma in Project Management (PM)

- Diploma in Leadership & Human Resources Management (LHRM)
 

One of the privileges of the study type is class days only surrounding 3 working days per week which creating suitable environment and enough opportunities for participants exists more free time to travel, research or participate in other useful events and programs as well spend more available free time with their friends, partners and family members while studying 3 Month Executive Diploma Program.
Additional advantages of Diploma Program participants will be chance to visit the local-regional institutions/companies, besides this we will invite guest speakers to share and talk their real work life experience.
Our trainers and speakers not only will share with you about the knowledge and skills also about their company, network and career life success stories which could be valuable factors and views for you to consider in catching easy your future dreamed career.

Deadline for Applications: 31 March 2025

31.05.25

Sustainability and Co-creation, Learning Interactions between Education and Business Sectors

Discover Sustainability

Collection Information and Aims:

Corporate sustainability learning can take many forms and occurs in different sectors and domains of society. The increasing legal and social demands for sustainability in the business sector, also requires now forms of learning, including co-creation with externals and in an inter-sectoral context, especially in the light of the emerging global crises and their resulting impact of a changing and vulnerable environment for the business world. Considered as an instrument for solving complex problems in creative settings, because it leverages a wide range of resources experiences and ideas otherwise unexplored, co-creation can be integrated more in actions towards sustainability.

This topical collection aims to contribute to the under-researched field of interrelation of “Co-creation” and “Sustainability”.

The collection will explore the intersection between the concepts of “Co-creation” and “Sustainability and give practical guidance, by focusing mainly on interdisciplinary research, methodological contributions and theoretical frameworks, advanced empirical research, case studies and experimental initiatives, that highlight innovation in the field, emerging new forms and practices, within science-business co-creation for sustainability. The collection will emphasise the 17SDGs, not as a learning framework bur as a useful guideline in re-designing existing learning processes, in order to adjust or specify existing learning components, guarantee substantial performance and encourage new forms of inter-organizational learning. By exploring these interrelations, the collection contributes to the research community and to the organizations in enhancing their understanding of a common learning space for knowledge transfer and co-creation, as a common instrument for synergized actions and thus revealing the hidden potential for sustainability.

Submission Deadline: 31 May 2025

06.10.24

Neue Nukleartechnologien Ausschreibung einer TA-Studie

TA-SWISS

Die Schweiz will ihre Energieversorgung kohlenstoffarm und nachhaltig gestalten und mit den geopolitischen Veränderungen in den letzten Jahren rückt auch die Versorgungssicherheit zunehmend in den Fokus der Politik. Nach dem Reaktorunfall von Fukushima 2011 und den darauffolgenden Beschlüssen des Bundesrats und Parlaments hat die Schweizer Bevölkerung im Jahr 2017 den Atomausstieg beschlossen und dem Neubauverbot von Kernkraftwerken zugestimmt. Vor dem Hintergrund politischer und gesellschaftlicher Unsicherheiten bezüglich potentieller Strommangellagen und zukünftiger Stromimportmöglichkeiten entfaltet sich heute in Politik und Öffentlichkeit wieder eine Diskussion um Weiterbetrieb und Neubau von Kernkraftwerken. Zudem wird aufgrund wachsender E-Mobilität, steigendem Einsatz von Wärmepumpen sowie immer energieintensiveren KI-Systemen mit einer zukünftigen Zunahme des Strombedarfs gerechnet.

In diesem Kontext sollen in einer interdisziplinären Studie Chancen und Risiken von neuen Nukleartechnologien in der Schweiz abgeschätzt werden. Die Studie soll in einer Auslegeordnung den Stand des Wissens bzw. des Nicht-Wissens zu den Kernkraftgenerationen GIII/III+ und GIV sowie kleineren modularen Nuklearanlagen (Small Modular Reactors SMR) abbilden und auf damit verbundene, relevante technische, gesellschaftliche, politische, wirtschaftliche, bildungsbezogene und rechtliche Fragen eingehen.

Einreichen von Projektskizzen

Die Ausschreibung erfolgt in einem zweistufigen Verfahren. In einem ersten Schritt sollen Projekt-skizzen eingereicht werden, die den vorgesehenen Inhalt der Studie und das geplante Vorgehen umschreiben und max. 4 Seiten umfassen:

• Vorgesehener Inhalt der Studie: Schwerpunkte, Fragestellungen (2 Seiten)
• Geplantes Vorgehen und Forschungsmethoden (max. 1 Seite)
• Geplante Zusammensetzung des Forschungsteams (max. 1 Seite)

Die Projektskizzen sind bis spätestens am 6. Oktober 2024 auf elektronischem Weg einzureichen.

31.01.25

Prix de la Meilleure Thèse Transdisciplinaire en Management 2025

FNEGE

Le Prix FNEGE de la thèse transdisciplinaire en Management a vocation à récompenser les meilleurs travaux doctoraux en sciences de gestion dont le sujet aborde plusieurs disciplines de management ou dépasse leurs frontières traditionnelles. Les thèses éligibles doivent avoir été soutenues entre le 1er janvier et 31 décembre 2024, dans un établissement d’enseignement supérieur français. Les jeunes docteurs de nationalité étrangère peuvent participer à cette sélection. Les thèses rédigées en anglais et sur articles sonst acceptées par la FNEGE.

Date limite de candidature: 31 janiver 2025

Jury: Avril 2025

Cérémonie de remise du prix FNEGE: Juin 2025

30.04.25

Call for manuscripts: Special issue of Sustainability: Explore Sustainable Development in Multiple Dimensions for Human Well-Being

sustainability

Research on the intersection between well-being and sustainable development is gaining more attention in light of increasing global challenges and the pressure to achieve global commitments for sustainability. Environmental psychology, which explores the relationship between humans and the external world, in the last decade, has been more sustainability- and policy-oriented, encompassing sustainability at larger levels of analysis and life domains beyond resource management, as well as in an interdisciplinary context.

Expanding environmental psychology to embrace multiple dimensions of sustainable development can be important for understanding the tensions that arise between needed action and challenging behavior changes. These can be seen as requirements that reduce subjective well-being, as ecosystem degradation does not have an immediate effect on well-being, and because critical sustainability transformations will trigger individual and collective action.

In this regard, this Special Issue is focused on exploring the intricate connection of multiple dimensions of sustainable development and human well-being. Global priorities have shifted toward well-being and sustainable development, which are both priorities in global agendas but are somehow pursued in separate directions.

This collection of works aims to advance research in this field and contribute to synergizing sustainability and well-being research agendas. The aim is to do so by showcasing articles from various disciplines, including environmental psychology in an interdisciplinary context, that challenge concepts of sustainability even beyond the triangular framing, considering a broad definition of well-being that is not only limited to a state of existence that fulfills various human needs (having, loving, being, and doing). In this way, we can embrace the idea that human well-being is inseparable from the nature and vitality of ecosystems.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025

No deadline mentioned

INSciTS 2024 Call for Committee Volunteers

International Network for the Science of Team Science (INSciTS)

Build your network, your expertise, and your profile by becoming an active member of the International Network for the Science of Team Science! INSciTS can give you access to a world-wide network of active and like-minded people, and a really good way to do this is to become an active member of one of the committees helping to build the Network internationally.

There are several areas in which volunteer help is always welcomed and appreciated. Below are the committees seeking volunteers and their descriptions.

2025 Annual Program Planning Committee
The Annual Program Committee organizes annual SciTS conferences, such as identifying the conference theme; selecting keynote and plenary session speakers; reviewing and selecting proposals for workshops, panels, oral sessions, and posters; implementing changes suggested by INSciTS members; and performing other functions as needed to ensure the success of annual conferences.

Membership Committee
Members are the core of the Network. Therefore maintaining the membership is important. This committee develops strategies on increasing and retaining membership, and evaluates the needs of the members.

Marketing & Outreach
The Marketing Committee reviews and advises on the marketing activities of the Network. It develops and submits an annual marketing plan to the Board of Directors that will identify and coordinate activities of the INSciTS committees with the purpose of marketing the Network.

Website
The Website Committee shall oversee all websites and applications that enable the Network to create, share, and/or participate in social networking as well as other means of interactions and ideas in virtual communities and networks.

Membership at a committee level fosters international relationships with like-minded colleagues, and may well enhance your professional standing and opportunities. Note that if you are already a committee member you will still need to reach out and volunteer for the upcoming year.

No deadline mentioned