The tdAcademy would like to contribute to capacity building in the field of transdisciplinary research by documenting its findings from research and exchange online and making them available free of charge. In this section you will therefore find a growing variety of materials in text, image and video that further educate on topics of transdisciplinary research with a focus on our four topic lines.
Below you will first find our videos and below the reports.
Want to get to know more about narratives in sustainability transitions? Here is a teaser of an entire online-course, including video-lectures, interviews and case studies. The course aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of narratives in transformation.
On 6 December 2023, the tdAcademy fellowship group “Transdisciplinary Learning Towards Collective Transformation” hosted a webinar, sharing their experiences on TD learning. You couldn't be there or would like to listen again? Watch the recording in full length.
The Webinar with Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno and María D. López Rodríguez (XPaths) is now available online.
The webinar with Ulli Vilsmaier (Responsive Research Collective, Switzerland) on is now available online.
The webinar with Ana Burgos (Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM) is now available online.
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.
The webinar with Gemma Tejedor and Jordi Segalas (ISST/UPC) on "Introducing Transdisciplinarity in Higher Education" is now available online.
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 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.
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.
The international tdAcademy Summer School 2024 had very good resonance and was successfully held, this time again in the region of l’Alt Empordà in Catalonia. 16 Master and PhD students with very different disciplinary and geographic backgrounds came together from 14th to 20th of September to learn about transdisciplinary methods and to apply them in an exemplary way to questions of regional land use conflicts. Read the report to learn more.
From 25.09. to 29.09. the first trinational Summer School took place at the Studienhaus Wiesneck (Buchenbach, close to Freiburg), conceptualized and organized by the Öko-Institut in cooperation with EUCOR and the University of Freiburg. 20 Master and PhD students from 20 disciplines from the trinational EUCOR region spent five days intensively working on formats and methods of transdisciplinary research using the example of urban climate adaptation.
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).
On April 20, 2023, Melanie Mbah, Regina Rhodius and Bettina Brohmann (all Öko-Institut e.V.) organized a digital reflection workshop on topic line 4 "New Formats".
On 29 November 2022, Josefa Kny and Martina Schäfer (ZTG/TU Berlin) organised a digital reflection workshop on thematic line 1 "Societal Effects".
On November 28 2022, the Leuphana research team (Daniel Lang, Claire Grauer, Farina Tolksdorf and Theresa Seidel) organized a 2-hour online workshop as part of topic line 3 to reflect on contextual dependencies in transdisciplinary research.
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.
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.
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.
In March 2022, topic line 1 held a dialogue forum to present and discuss preliminary results and to stimulate exchange among participants.
In March 2022, the tdAcademy conducted a workshop together with the Schader Foundation on how educational offerings promote mutual learning and design processes.
Results from the early-career session as part of the ITD Conference in September 2021
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.
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.
On July 23, 2021, the tdAcademy organized the workshop "The real-world laboratory - one format, many approaches?" in cooperation with Steinbeis Beratungszentrum Syntos and the Netzwerk Reallabore.
tdAcademy was the follow-up to TransImpact. Here we present the results of the completed TransImpact research project. In addition to an informative summary of the results and the key topics developed as part of the project, we provide you with a method toolbox to inspire your own research.