With the start of the second funding phase of the tdAcademy on June 1, 2023, we welcomed some new colleagues who have been enriching our team with their different backgrounds and enthusiasm for transdisciplinary research for several weeks now. With the series "Get to know the tdAcademy team" you can learn more about the "new ones". Second up is Michael Kreß-Ludwig (project coordination, main office, ISOE).
With the start of the second funding phase of the tdAcademy on June 1, 2023, we welcomed some new colleagues who have been enriching our team with their different backgrounds and enthusiasm for transdisciplinary research for several weeks now. With the series "Get to know the tdAcademy team" you can learn more about the "new ones". The first one is Chantal Krumm (research assistant, main office, ISOE).
The second international tdAcademy Summer School took place in 2023 and found positive resonance once again. 19 Master and PhD students with very different disciplinary and geographic backgrounds came together in Bad Freienwalde from 17th to 22nd September to learn about transdisciplinary methods and to apply them in an exemplary way to questions in rural areas of north-eastern Brandenburg. For all participants, this was an exciting and enriching continuation of the Summer School cooperation between the tdAcademy team at the ZTG and the ISST of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
What role do narratives play in shaping inclusive transdisciplinary processes? This is the question addressed by the tdAcademy Fellowgroup "Fostering inclusivity and transformative research through narratives in transdisciplinary processes". Different perspectives on this question are the result of a workshop with experts from science and practice.
The tdAcademy group of supporting partners has published a position paper on the promotion of transdisciplinarity as well as participatory and transformative approaches in science, business, civil society and politics. Support the cause with your signature!
The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) seeks to appoint a Full Professor of Social Ecology with 1st December 2023. Apply until 15th September 2023.
Since June, the second phase of the tdAcademy project has commenced, with a research focus on exploring the interfaces between the topic lines.
In April and May 2023, the fellow group on Transdisciplinarity for Holistic Sustainability Education: New Learning Approaches spent two months at Leuphana. In this short report you will learn more about the work of the Fellows.
In this article, Farina Tolksdorf and Celina Bittger (Topic Line 3) report the findings of the tdAcademy collected in the first phase of the project on continuing education programmes in the context of transdisciplinary research.
The tdAcademy Fellow Group "Societal Impact" present the results of their collaboration on " Measuring and Evaluating Societal Impact" in their paper recently published in GAIA. Read now!
The Society for Transdisciplinary and Participatory Research celebrated its foundation with more than 200 guests on May 10, 2023 in the Lichthof of the Technical University of Berlin. In this short report you will learn more about the course and content of the event.
The Webinar with Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno and María D. López Rodríguez (XPaths) is now available online.
On April 20, 2023, the second digital reflection workshop was held by TL 4. This short report presents the course and outcomes.
The TU Berlin is looking for a projectmanager (m/f/x) to establish and manage an office within the newly founded Society for Transdisciplinary and Participatory Research. Application deadline: May 1, 2023.
We ask for your participation in our short online survey for the further development and optimization of the tdAcademy online hub. Please take about 5 minutes of your time and give us feedback!
In September 2022, the first Summer School of the tdAcademy took place. Two participating students talked with Gemma Tejedor (ISST/UPC) about the format and its pilot implementation.
At the beginning of spring, we are looking forward to exciting and promising fellow groups visiting the partner institutes of the tdAcademy in the coming weeks and months and do research on a variety of topics relevant to transdisciplinary research.
The webinar with Ulli Vilsmaier (Responsive Research Collective, Switzerland) on is now available online.
In October 2022, topic line 4, together with Christopher Orr (University of Waterloo), organised a workshop on the role of transdisciplinarity in research and policy advice at the Earth System Governance (ESG) Conference in Toronto. Farina Tolksdorf reports on its process and results.
In November 2022, the Leuphana research team organized an online workshop as part of topic line 3 to reflect on contextual dependencies in transdisciplinary research.
In March 2022 a digital reflection workshop on topic line 4 "New formats" took place as part of the Darmstadt Days of Transformation. The short report summarises the process and results of the workshop.
In November 2022, Josefa Kny and Martina Schäfer (ZTG/TU Berlin) organised a digital reflection workshop on preliminary findings of topic line 1 "Societal Effects", discussed and enriched by comments from Arnim Wiek and Flurina Schneider.
The webinar with Ana Burgos (Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM) is now available online.
In September 2022, ZTG together with ISST/UPC conducted the first international tdAcademy Summer School. 27 master students and PhD students gathered in the Alt Empordà region.
We invite applications for a fellow group to work on the topic of scientific effects of transdisciplinary research.
In 2022, the Impact Workshops in Topic Line 1 "Societal Effects" enter the second round. Here we asked participants for feedback after their second Impact Workshop.
In the webinar „Keep rol(l)ing! Developing Theories of Change in inter- and transdisciplinary contexts“ on July 12, 2022, the tdAcademy team at ZTG and Sabine Hoffmann (eawag) presented the results of their collaborative working process.
On June 10, 2022, ISOE - Institute for Social-Ecological Research organized an online workshop as part of the topic line 2 to reflect on scientific impacts of transdisciplinary research.
The webinar with Gemma Tejedor and Jordi Segalas (ISST/UPC) on "Introducing Transdisciplinarity in Higher Education" is now available online.
In this short interview Tamara talks about her time at tdAcademy and reflects on her past and current points of contact with transdisciplinary research and contextual dependencies.
On March 30th, a one-hour online seminar was held in topic line 4. The proceedings and results are summarized here.
In March 2022, topic line 1 held a dialogue forum to present and discuss preliminary results and to stimulate exchange among participants.
In this webinar, Peter Wehling analyses the relationship between established science and transdisciplinarity and deconstructs the most common objections towards transdisciplinarity.
Watch the recording from our Webinar with Sadaf Taimur on 'Design thinking as Digital Transformative Pedagogy in Higher Sustainability Education.'
In March 2022, the tdAcademy conducted a workshop together with the Schader Foundation on how educational offerings promote mutual learning and design processes.
In September 2021, the third dialog forum of topic line 4 for td researchers and interested parties was held as part of the ITD Conference 2021. The short report summarizes the proceedings and the results.
The tdAcademy invites completed transdisciplinary research projects to participate in our study concerning their contextual dependencies and, if you are interested, to collaborate on a joint publication.
tdAcademy visiting researcher Peter Wehling summarizes his observations and findings on institutional and conceptual resistances to transdisciplinarity in mainstream science.
Florian Knutzen (GERICS, Helmholtz Center Hereon) talks about his experiences from our Impact Workshop.
In the webinar on December 9th, 2021, tdAcademy-Fellows Livia Fritz and Ulli Vilsmaier elaborated on and discussed the concept of hegemony in the work of Antonio Gramsci.
On November 26th 2021, the Supporting Partners of the tdAcademy met virtually for their second meeting.
Results from the early-career session as part of the ITD Conference in September 2021
As a kickoff of the tdAcademy Capacity Building event series Guido Caniglia and Christopher Luederitz shared fruitful insights into action-oriented knowledge for sustainability with us on September 21, 2021.
In September 2021, the research associates of tdAcademy came together for an internal workshop on the topic of "context". This brief report outlines the contents and objectives of the workshops as well as central questions.
In March and July 2021, two dialogue forums for scientists and practitioners with different methodological approaches took place. The short report summarizes the process and results of the workshops.
Please provide feedback to our event calendar and our current capacity-building offers. In this way you help us to improve and diversify our offers!
On 25 June 2021, we held a dialogue forum where we presented our interim results for topic line 2.
Simone Rödder, elected member of the tdAcademy Steering Committee, talks about her role and the importance of the tdAcademy group of Supporting Partners.
Caroline Fernolend (Mihai Eminescu Trust) reports on her experience from the tdAcademy Impact Workshop.
At the ITD Conference 2021, topic line 1 will be present with a session on impact assessment and reflection. Interested researchers can already contribute in advance.
Christoph Siemers from Stadtentwässerung Braunschweig GmbH talks about his experiences and impressions of the tdAcademy impact workshop.
Flurin Cappis from the Economic, Energy and Environment Directorate of the Canton Bern on the tdAcademy Impact Workshop.
Several workshops on impact reflection have taken place in the topic line Societal Effects. Participant Stephanie Moser (CDE, University of Bern) shares her insights in the video (in German).
Christian Pohl, elected member of the tdAcademy Steering Committee, talks about his role and the importance of the tdAcademy group of Supporting Partners.
The first workshops on impact reflection have taken place in the topic line Societal Effects. Participant Hannah Sachße shares her insights in the video (in German).
In preparation for the session, we present the submissions for the ITD workshop on ToC.
In preparation for the session, we present the submissions for the ITD workshop on impact assessment.