The tdAcademy Project enters its Second Funding Phase

Since June 2023, the second funding phase of the tdAcademy research project has started. With the launch of "tdAcademy 2“, the coordination office of the research and community platform for transdisciplinarity has been relocated from Leuphana University in Lüneburg to Frankfurt am Main. Michael Kreß-Ludwig from the ISOE - Institute for Social-Ecological Research now serves as the central contact person. The project leadership is now shared by the ISOE and the Center Technology and Society at the Technische Universität Berlin. The goal of tdAcademy 2 is to strengthen the transdisciplinary research mode and further investigate the impacts of transdisciplinary methods and concepts. In the first phase of the project (June 2020 - May 2023), tdAcademy successfully established a dynamic platform for transdisciplinary research and community networking, and it will now expand its offerings. The research work will continue to deal with four topc lines: societal and scientific impacts, understanding the contextual conditions of transdisciplinary research in a systematic manner, and exploring new integrative research formats and their potential enrichment of transdisciplinary research. These four topic lines will be maintained in the second phase of the project (June 2023 - May 2025), but with a stronger focus on the interrelations between them. Innovative research questions at the intersections of the topic lines will be addressed by re-examining, analyzing, and enriching existing data and results from an integrative perspective. This approach will involve conducting independent research that is based on both overarching questions that synthesize all four topic lines and the integration at the interfaces between two pairs of topic lines. Therefore, the current focus is on better understanding the interfaces between the topic lines in order to identify synergies and trade-offs. The goal of the research work in the second phase is to intensify the systematic integration of insights that were initially developed in parallel within the topic lines.