INTEGRATION IN INTER- AND
TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH:

Date: 19-21 November 2009, Berne

Deadline for abstract submissions: 31 July

Please note that the submission of the abstract form does not make the submission of the registration form redundant. Each participant, with or without a paper, must register for the conference here.
 
For abstract submissions please use this word-file (or rtf-format), fill in the information in the given format/fonts, and send it to M. Rossini (mail) 

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

We kindly ask you to submit proposals for either paper or workshop sessions.

Workshop sessions should be interactive by testing, revising and elaborating on existing models and integrative approaches with the participants. To involve other researchers as early as possible and to allow for in-depth discussion and mutual learning, we suggest that workshop organisers and interested parties enter into dialogue before the conference already.

Paper contributions can present practical experiences from inter- and transdisciplinary projects and courses on issues of gender, health, economics, cultural change, the environment, new technologies or science-and-literature/arts, or focus on more theoretical or methodological issues and ‘tool kits’ of integration. You might find it helpful in structuring your paper to address the following questions (see Integration Insights 1):

1. What was the transdisciplinary integration aiming to achieve and who was intended to benefit?
2. Which elements (e.g. disciplines and practice perspectives) were being integrated in a transdisciplinary manner?
3. Who was doing the transdisciplinary integration?
4. How was the transdisciplinary integration undertaken?
5. What was the context for this transdisciplinary work, which might have affected any of the other elements?
6. How was the impact measured and evaluated?

Please take into account that papers should not last more than 15 minutes to allow for a discussion time of 15 minutes. If you choose the workshop format, you and/or your team are given 90 minutes but should also limit the presentation time to a minimum.

Abstracts should be around 400 words and include a paragraph that explicitly addresses the specific contribution of the paper or workshop to the overall conference theme of integration. Please also add a short list of the relevant literature the paper will draw on at the end of the abstract.