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21.03.25
Call for contributions: SSH Energy 2025
ETH Zurich
The 5th Swiss Social Sciences and Humanities Energy Research Workshop (SSH Energy 2025) is an opportunity for researchers, modellers, practitioners, and policymakers to share perspectives and insights on the societal implications, discourses, and transformation processes required to transition to a more sustainable and equitable energy system. The 2025 edition seeks to learn from SSH energy initiatives with interdisciplinary (that integrate different disciplinary perspectives) and transdisciplinary (engaging with societal actors) approaches into energy transitions.
To make this critical energy transition, integrating social sciences and humanities into energy research is vital, but just how we do that is the most important question that can bring research to impact transformative change. Inter- and transdisciplinary research address the complexities of integration. They aim to move beyond knowledge production by fostering collaboration and diverse perspectives essential for meaningful change.
Abstract Submission: 21 March 2025
30.03.25
Perspektiven der Verwaltungswissenschaft auf Transdisziplinarität
dms - der moderne Staat
Angesichts gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen, wie u. a. Klimaschutz und nachhaltige Entwicklung, Ressourceneffizienz, gesellschaftliche Sicherheit, Gesundheit, Migration, soziale Ungleichheit etc. sind die Relevanz- und Nützlichkeitsforderungen an die Wissenschaft hoch. Genuin anwendungsorientierte Disziplinen, wie die Verwaltungswissenschaft, spielen in dem Zusammenhang eine zentrale Rolle, da sie sich seit jeher an der Schnittstelle von Wissenschaft und Praxis bewegen. Die „Grenzarbeit“ (boundary work) zwischen theoretischem Wissen und praktischer Anwendung wird insbesondere angesichts der komplexen und vielfältigen Herausforderungen relevant, denen sich öffentliche Verwaltung derzeit stellen müssen.
Die Verwaltungswissenschaft ist dabei häufig mit der Schwierigkeit konfrontiert, dass ihr produziertes Wissen in praktischen Anwendungskontext der Verwaltung insgesamt kritisch beäugt wird. Konkret können sich bezüglich der verwaltungswissenschaftlichen Expertise u. a. Widerstände oder Resistenzen in der Verwaltung ergeben.
In dem Zusammenhang werden in der Wissenssoziologie verschiedene Modi der Produktion von Wissen diskutiert. Transdisziplinarität ist eine Möglichkeit. Der Ansatz beschreibt die Zusammenarbeit von Wissenschaftler:innen und Praktiker:innen, welche, am Gegenstand konkreter praktischer Problemstellungen, die gemeinsame Ko-Produktion neuer Wissensbestände zum Ziel hat.
Deadline für Abstratcs: 30. März 2025
31.03.25
Transdisciplinary Engineering for Sustainability Decisions
Frontiers in Sustainability
Transdisciplinary engineering is the emerging approach to build a capacity in engineering to effectively collaborate across academic-industry/government or community boundaries, and to integrate knowledge across academic disciplines, including the social sciences. This is critical to developing effective decision tools in organizations with the resources to affect material change on the environment and society - including at government level and industrial level in manufacturing and product development. We are looking for papers that explore how decision support in engineering settings can be augmented by collaborating across knowledge communities or how engineering analysis can support decisions in non-engineering settings like government policy making or community decisions in the context of sustainability - for clean water, air, low carbon energy, food and agriculture.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2025
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
01.04.25
Call for contributions: “Role of transdisciplinarity as a scientific and cultural approach in the prevention of global conflicts of modern civilization”
ITT, CIRET
The reception of written answers to the questions of the symposium “The role of transdisciplinarity as a scientific and cultural approach in preventing global conflicts of modern civilization" is open. The symposium will be held in the period from 01 February to 01 April 2025. The organizers of the symposium are the Institute of Transdisciplinary Technologies (Russia) (http://www.td-science.ru) and the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research (CIRET, France) (http://ciret-transdisciplinarity.org) .
What it is about?
The main objectives of the symposium are:
a) To determine the readiness of modern transdisciplinarity to participate in rethinking and solving the problems of sustainable development of society;
b) To determine the scientific and cultural potential of modern transdisciplinarity for the prevention of global conflicts, as one of the conditions for the formation of sustainable development of society.
The deadline for sending pdf files as finished materials is from 01 February to 01 April 2025
20.04.2025
Call for Contributions: Transformative change for a just and sustainable future
National Sustainability Society
Balancing social, economic, and environmentally sustainable practices requires revolutionary action. While climate change, biodiversity loss, socio-political polarization, pollution, public health, and other related issues remain vital concerns, no outcomes are predetermined. Through individual initiatives and collaborative efforts in the near and distant future, humanity is still capable of both mitigating or even reversing adverse trends.
A just and sustainable future is within our power.
The second Annual National Sustainability Society conference welcomes those in academia, industry, nonprofits, and governments to come together and share contributions that focus on transformative change for a just and sustainable future. We especially encourage submissions from emerging scholars and early career professionals.
Submission Deadline: 20 April 2025
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30.04.25
Engaged UniBE – Transdisciplinary Projects for Sustainable Development
University of Bern
The Vice-Rectorate Quality and Sustainable Development of the University of Bern is launching a call for projects that are in line with the Climate Roadmap 2030. The University is looking for innovative projects that use transdisciplinary methods to promote climate protection and involve social actors in the Bern region in novel and effective ways.
Eligible projects include, among others:
Social innovations for sustainability transformations
Research-based implementation projects for greenhouse gas reduction
Climate impact projects, climate impact adaptation projects
Living labs or real-world experiments
Capacity development for young scientists
Development and implementation of transdisciplinary teaching formats
Innovative formats for dialog with politics and civil society
etc.
Projects with a duration of at least one and a maximum of three years are eligible for funding. The maximum funding amount per project and year is CHF 100'000.
Submission Deadline for project ideas: 30 April 2025
Deadline fpr submission of final project proposals: 15 June 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
07.05.25
NRP 84 “Plant Breeding Innovation”: second call for proposals now open
NRP 84 - Plant Breeding Innovation
Researchers are invited to submit applications to a second call for projects to be conducted within the National Research Programme “Plant Breeding Innovation” (NRP 84). This call is aimed at researchers in the social sciences and humanities (SSH), in fields including – but not restricted to – the applied ethics of innovation, social sciences, science education, anthropology, history, communication and media, economics and law.
NRP 84 will explore the capacity and social implications of new plant breeding technologies (NBT) to address food security challenges in Switzerland, with particular emphasis on their economic viability, ethical and social acceptability as well as ecological sustainability. The NRP is structured into three modules: Technical feasibility of NBT (Module 1); Ethics, society and economics (Module 2) and Regulatory considerations (Module 3). The first call successfully attracted projects exploring the technical feasibility of NBT and facilitated multidisciplinary collaboration. However, the Steering Committee has identified relevant gaps regarding the topics addressed in Modules 2 and 3 and has therefore decided to use the remaining funds to support additional projects in these modules.
Proposal-Submission Deadline: 7 May 2025
25.05.2025
Three Calls on food, mobility and sharing
Future Urban Society
Future Urban Society is looking for the best approaches, ideas and proposed solutions from all over Switzerland for our three challenges.
The edible city
The edible city — How we get back to our taste. How can we promote our own health and that of the planet by growing and enjoying local food?
City of short distances
City of short distances — spatial development for a better quality of life. How could we contribute to a high quality of life in Swiss cities and agglomerations through short distances?
Sharing Sharing Sharing
Sharing as a social innovation. How does sharing things become a matter of course in everyday urban life?
Application Deadline: 25 May 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
15.06.25
Engaged UniBE – Transdisciplinary Projects for Sustainable Development
University of Bern
The Vice-Rectorate Quality and Sustainable Development of the University of Bern is launching a call for projects that are in line with the Climate Roadmap 2030. The University is looking for innovative projects that use transdisciplinary methods to promote climate protection and involve social actors in the Bern region in novel and effective ways.
Eligible projects include, among others:
Social innovations for sustainability transformations
Research-based implementation projects for greenhouse gas reduction
Climate impact projects, climate impact adaptation projects
Living labs or real-world experiments
Capacity development for young scientists
Development and implementation of transdisciplinary teaching formats
Innovative formats for dialog with politics and civil society
etc.
Projects with a duration of at least one and a maximum of three years are eligible for funding. The maximum funding amount per project and year is CHF 100'000.
Submission deadline for project ideas: April 30, 2025 (binding commitment is subject to implementation of the evaluation panel's recommendations by 15 June)
Deadline for submission of final project proposals: June 15, 2025
To participate, projects must involve both a social and a university stakeholder from the University of Bern.