News from td-net

td-net; parizipative Wissenschaftsakademie Zürich: Die Methoden Montage gehen in die nächste Runde. Ab dem 7. November 2022 widmen wir uns wieder am ersten Montag des Monats der Koproduktion von Wissen. Der Online Workshop wird geleitet von Sibylle Studer. Über den Verlauf der 6. Sitzungen folgen wir den Phasen eines Forschungsprojekts, stellen dabei jeweils eine ausgewählte Methode aus der td-net Toolbox vor und wenden diese direkt an. Die Veranstaltungen können einzeln besucht werden, der Besuch des Kick-offs am 07.11.22 wird wärmstens empfohlen. Mehr Informationen 

td-net: We warmly welcome Noé Balsinger to the team! Noé is doing his master in Geography and History at the University of Bern, and will support the team as our new assistant. Furthermore Noé will also assist the team of the KFPE from January 2023 on, a warm welcome on our teams!

Noé is taking over the assistant tasks form Nives Ramisberger, who finished her master degree and is moving on - good luck!

News from the community

FiBL and HochstammSuisse are collaborating on a transdisciplinary research project that is based around networking and knowledge creation on the topic of combining fruit and livestock production. The collaboration is part of the Horizon Europe project “MIXED”, networking and collaboration beyond Switzerland. More information

TA-SWISS: Voice, speech and face recognition reliably simplifies a lot everyday actions and the technology could be used in many more areas such as the diagnosis of diseases or the real-time search for suspects. But there are caveats as well: A new interdisciplinary TA-SWISS study investigates the opportunities and dangers associated with voice, speech and face recognition. More information

i2insights: : How interdisciplinary & transdisciplinary researchers integrate into academic institutions &/or disrupt the status quo is described by Laura Norton, Giulia Sonetti and Mauro Sarrica. They present three common narratives: 1) the hero or individual escape, 2) the refugee in a sanctuary or exclusive inclusivity and 3) the navigator of shifting borders or disrupt the status quo. Where do you fit? Go to blog

Interdisciplinary Games: : COLLAB encourages a playful reflection on different backgrounds in interdisciplinary teams in order to improve communication and collaboration. With COLLAB, you can address, discuss, compare, and exchange ideas about disciplinary principles and foundations. This allows you and your research team to create good and effective communication and gain new insights. More information

The Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) programme has launched a series of short films that are available to watch online. Six films present insights from specific projects, showing how they worked with communities in diverse places around the world to understand the complex relations between social structures, the material world and environmental and social change. A longer film explores some of the difficult questions around transformations to sustainability and proposes approaches to tackling the defining challenge of our times. The films are in English with subtitles available in many different languages.

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF has funded German research institutes in five out of the twelve projects in this programme. Find out more about these projects on BMBF Research for Sustainability website and on the programme website. More information

Open Innovation in Science: : The Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) programme has launched a series of six short films. Showing how researchers worked with communities in diverse places around the world to understand the complex relations between social structures, the material world and environmental and social change. A longer film explores questions around transformations to sustainability and proposes approaches to tackling the defining challenge of our times. The films are in English with subtitles available in many different languages. More information

Calls

GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society: This special issue of GAIA aims to present and analyse the current state of the art of methodology, scope and objectives in RwL

research. This special issue was initiated in the context of the RwL conference, held in June 2022 in Karlsruhe.

More information - Deadline: 24 November 2022 

SRI2023: Help shape the program for SRI2023. If you're doing work in the sustainability space, the call is now open for contributions to next year's hybrid Congress in Panama. Showcase your expertise to a global audience of more than 1500 people from 100+ countries.

More information - Deadline: 30 November 2022

JKU: Die Österreichische Citizen Science Konferenz geht vom 19. - 21. April 2023 in die 8. Runde. Unter dem Motto „ver.suchen - ver.einen - ver.antworten“ wollen wir die Beteiligung von Bürger*innen in Forschungsprozessen in all seinen Facetten sichtbar machen. 

More information - Deadline: 7. Dezember 2022

SwissTPH: Goal of the instrument is to promote research collaboration between Swiss and African PhD students of Higher Education Institutions through a Seasonal School. The Seasonal School should include inter-and (if applicable) transdisciplinary sessions to bring Swiss and African PhD students together to develop solutions for sustainability challenges, geared towards the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the African Union’s Agenda 2063.

More information - Deadline: 28 February 2023

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications: The higher-education landscape is changing toward increasingly societally engaged models that re-position disciplinary silos. This generates questions about ‘what works’ in interdisciplinary higher education. The literature about it is currently scattered and research gaps are hard to identify, define, and defend. There is a need for improving publication possibilities for practice-based projects using interdisciplinary teaching and learning as input.

More information - Deadline: 22 September 2023

Global Social Challenges Journal:  Bristol University Press’s recently launched non-profit, open-access Global Social Challenges Journal (GSCJ) has a particular focus on TD and ID work and welcomes submissions from td-net members. The journal aims to encourage inclusivity and diversity in publishing. Contributions from researchers and practitioners at all career stages are welcome.

More information - No Deadline