swiss-academies award for
transdisciplinary research

The swiss-academies award for transdisciplinary research (td-award) is given biannually in recognition of outstanding transdisciplinary work according to the criteria developed and published by the td-net.

Projects carried out by individuals or research teams are eligible.

The decision of the Jury is based on the quality of the current project (not the follow-up project). The winner or the winning team receives 75,000 Swiss Francs. Awarded by Stiftung Mercator Schweiz, this is the highest reearch prize of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences.

The Award Ceremony will take place within the framework of the international Transdisciplinarity Conference 2010 at the Uni Bastions in Geneva on

Thursday, 16 September from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.

Programme (pdf)

You are kindly invited to join the event. For the planning it would be of great help to the organizers if you communicated your attendance to the coordinator Dr. Manuela Rossini at manuela.rossini@scnat.ch.

Medienmitteilung (pdf) | Communiqué de presse (pdf)


The td-award 2010 is given to: The Legal Protection of Cultural Diversity in a Digital Networked Environment University of Lucerne	Shortlisted projects: « BiodiverCity » (Marco Moretti, WSL) « Therapeutic and Sensory Garden at the RehaClinic Zurzach » (Renata Schneiter-Ulmann, ZHAW)
Life-long dedication to transdisciplinary research: Prof. em. Dr. Thomas Bearth, University of Zurich

» Call for application (pdf)
» Application form (doc)

» Application information
» Winning projects