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Network for Transdisciplinary Research (td-net)

Newsletter no. 1

February 2021

 
   
 

News from td-net

 
   
  
   
 

MOOC on Transdisciplinary Research starting soon!

 
 

Learn how research can contribute concretely to solving complex societal problems! The next tutored run of our free Massive Open Online Course on Transdisciplinary Research will start 22 February 2021. 

More information and registration

 
   
 

Save the Date! - Werkstattgespräch Transdisziplinarität II

 
 

Fachhochschulen haben grosses Potenzial soziale Innovationen und gesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse durch transdisziplinäre Forschung anzustossen und zu begleiten.

In einem zweiten Werkstattgespräch möchten wir die Impulse aus dem Positionspapier der Akademien aufnehmen und diskutieren, wie eine breitere Verankerung der TD-Forschung an FHs erreicht werden kann. 

Mehr erfahren Sie hier

 
   
 

Save the Date! - Atelier-débat transdisciplinarité II

 
 

Les hautes écoles spécialisées ont un grand potentiel pour faire avancer et accompagner les innovations sociales et les processus de transformation au sein de la société grâce à la recherche transdisciplinaire. Nous aimerons discuter sur une base plus large des options et des domaines pouvant améliorer les conditions-cadres ainsi que la qualité de la recherche transdisciplinaire et lancer des processus aux différents niveaux.

Cet atelier se tiendra le 22 avril 2021.

En savoir plus

 
   
 

International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2021 – Call is open! 

 
 

Creating Spaces and Cultivating Mindsets for Learning and Experimentation

The Call for Contributions for ITD 21 is now published. Five thematic streams and online-optimised formats are waiting to be explored. We invite contributions from all fields and research cultures, while particularly welcoming submissions from practitioners and from transdisciplinary teams. Abstract submission is possible until 18thApril 2021. Conference webpage: http://bit.ly/itd21

 
 
 
 
   
 

New events

 
   
 

The second Tuesday of each month until May 2021

 
 

INTEREACH Spring 2021 Webinar Series - Boundary Spanning Tools for Research Teams

 
 

Webinar, online ❯❯

 
 
 
 
 

5 February 2021

 
 

Legal Aspects of Open Science

 
 

Workshop, online ❯❯

 
 
 
 
 

15-17 February 2021

 
 

Swiss STS Meeting 2021

 
 

Swiss STS Meeting 2021, online ❯❯

 
 
 
 
 

18. Februar 2021

 
 

Herausforderung Reallabor: Methoden | Übertragbarkeit | Impact

 
 

Fachtagung, online ❯❯

 
 
 
 
 

18. & 19. März 2021

 
 

Landwirtschaft im Kontext des Klimawandels - Risiken und Handlungsoptionen

 
 

Tagung, Agroscope Tänikon ❯❯

 
 
 
 
 

20-25 June 2021

 
 

Citizen Science Summer School: Transforming research through public participation

 
 

Summer School, Zurich ❯❯

 
 
 
 
 

see more events

 
   
 

News from the community

 
 
  
   
 

What does ‚transformation‘ mean amid the disruption of COVID-19?

 
 

In the new blog post of Sarah Moore on the T2S Website twelve international, transdisciplinary projects in the Transformations to Sustainability programme share insights on how COVID-19 has impacted on their work.

More information

 
   
 

Start of living lab work in an EU research project

 
 

In December, the FiBL held a first meeting with the living lab on digitalisation in Swiss organic farming. The objective of the Swiss living lab is to investigate the needs and future developments of organic farmers with regard to digital technologies.

More information

 
   
 

Values of the ecological infrastructure in Swiss parks

 
 

The project ValPar.CH was launched in October 2020 to assess the benefits of a functioning ecological infrastructure in Switzerland. To do so, several methods from the social and the natural sciences will be integrated, as well as the input from national and regional stakeholders. A specific work package will try to find out in what ways project management can enhance the transformative capacity of inter- and transdisciplinarity.

More information

 
   
 

rootlinks: Become a changemaker for sustainability!

 
 

Rootlinks is a student organisation active across all five universities in Zürich with the mission to empower students to become future sustainability changemakers. During the spring semester of 2021, you can work on a real-world sustainability challenge together with an interdisciplinary team.

Recruiting for the spring semester 2021 starts on 1 of February.

More information and registration

 
   
 

Registration now open!

 
 

The registration for the 12th Annual International Science of Team Science Conference on June 7-11, 2021 hosted by Virginia Tech is now open.
To the registration
To the full list of confirmed speakers and workshops

 
   
 

r4i- research for impact

 
 

r4i has the goal to create new collaborations between people with diverse forms of knowledge, so that they can learn from each other, particularly those working to understand and solve complex social problems. r4i connects via their hands-on matchmaking, they offer interactive workshops, share their experiences and more.

More information

 
   
 

I2Insights - The first blog posts of 2021

 
 

Also in the new year there was already a lot of work on the community blog of I2Insights. The community blog has already provided four interesting blog posts in 2021.

See the new blog post

 
 
 
 
   
 

Publications

 
   
 

Bergmann, M. et al. (2021)

 
 

Transdisciplinary sustainability research in real-world labs: success factors and methods for change

 
 

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Beutller, C., Paschke, M. (2020)

 
 

Risk and uncertainty communication

 
 

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Binder, C. R. Et al. (2020)

 
 

Increasing the relevance of science for practice and practice for science: Quantitative empirical insights

 
 

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Defila, R., Di Giulio, A. (2020)

 
 

Inter- und Transdisziplinarität ausbuchstabiert: Reflexionen zum angemessenen Umgang mit der Vielfalt an Gegenständen und fachlichen Zugängen in komplexen Forschungsfeldern

 
 

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Lawrence, R. (2020)

 
 

Advancing with Transdisciplinarity: Effective Responses for Coronavirus

 
 

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Phillips, R., Kara, H. (2021)

 
 

Creative Writing for Social Research - A Practical Guide

 
 

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Pleiger, H. (2020)

 
 

The ‚Inter-Disciplined‘ Exhibition - A Case Study

 
 

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Pohl, C. et al. (2021)

 
 

Conceptualising transdisciplinary integration as a multidimensional interactive process

 
 

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Scherhaufer, P. (2021)

 
 

Better research through more participation? The future of integrated climate change assessments

 
 

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see more publications

 
   
 

Calls

 
   
  
   
 

Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership - Call for applications for the 4th cohort

 
 

This year’s focus topic is “Pathways for regenerative development in human nature relationships. Building back better?"

Deadline: 15 February 2021 - More information

 
   
 

„Dilemmata der Nachhaltigkeit“ - Call for Papers

 
 

Das Ziel der Konferenz ist, sich dem Spannungsfeld "Transformation in Richtung einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung" zu nähern und Dilemmata der Nachhaltigkeit im Kontext von Forschung zu nachhaltiger Entwicklung zu ergründen und zu reflektieren. Für die Konferenz können Beiträge an Sophie Berg geschickt werden. 

Deadline: 15 Februar 2021 - More information

 
   
 

Un/Certain calibrations

 
 

The mLAB is pleased to announce the second call for residencies in form of transdisciplinary research collaborations between academia, research, (digital) media, and arts. At least one team member must be working or studying at the University of Bern.

Deadline: 28 February 2021 - More information

 
   
 

Call for applications for the "Knowledge to action Online academy"

 
 

The objective of the online academy is to build skills enabling the participants to contribute to, and take leadership in, the achievement of the SDGs with special focus on climate change, waste management and biodiversity.

Application deadline: 1 March 2021

Program start: 11 April 2021

More information

 
   
 

The Geneva Challenge 2021: Crisis Management

 
 

The Geneva Challenge aims to encourage interdisciplinary problem-solving analysis among master students on advancing human development within the scope of a relevant topic. This year, students are invited to develop analysis-based proposals on "The Challenges of Crisis Management

Registrations close on 22 March 2021

Deadline for submission: 12 July 2021

More information

 
   
 

SNSF: New call for BRIDGE Discovery

 
 

The fifth call for proposals for the funding scheme BRIDGE Discovery is launched. The funding scheme Discovery is aimed at experienced researchers from all disciplines who wish to realise an innovation with great social or economic impact.

Deadline: 17 May 2021 - More information

 
   
 

Special Issue „The Transformative Potential of Transdisciplinary Research in Land Systems Science (LSS)" 

 
 

This Special Issue probes the ability of transdisciplinary (TD) research in LSS to achieve equitable problem solving in complex multi-stakeholder, multi- and cross-scale, as well as tele-coupled contexts. Practice-based or case study papers, as well as conceptual or review articles are warmly welcome. 

Deadline: 1 September 2021 - More information

 
 
 
 
 

See more calls

 
   
   
 

Jobs and fellowships

 
   
 

Deadline: 3 February 2021

 
 

Transacademic Interface Manager

 
 

University of Graz ❯❯

 
 
 
 
 

Deadline: 7. Februar 2021

 
 

Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft für die Abteilung Nachhaltiges Konsumieren und Produzieren

 
 

Wuppertal Institut ❯❯

 
 
 
 
 

Deadline: 7. Februar 2021

 
 

Wissenschaftliche*r Projektleiter*in
mit Schwerpunkt auf Aktionsforschung und Wissenschaftstransfer 

 
 

Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam ❯❯

 
 
 
 
 

Deadline: 15. Februar 2021

 
 

W3-Professur für Reallaborforschung Gestalten

 
 

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie 

Ausschreibung Deutsch ❯❯

Ausschreibung Englisch ❯❯

 
 
 
 
 

Deadline: 15 February 2021

 
 

5 KLI Writing-Up Fellowships on „Dealing with diversity in the life and sustainability sciences"

 
 

Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Kloserneuburg ❯❯

 
 
 
 
 

Deadline: 1 March 2021

 
 

Tenured/ Tenure-Track: Open Rank

 
 

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University ❯❯

 
 
 
 
 

see more open positions

 
   
  
  
   
  
   
   
 
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