News:

21.11.2009

td-award 2010 - CALL for application

Outstanding transdisciplinary research projects based at Swiss universities can apply.
The award of CHF 75,000 is provided by the Stiftung Mercator Schweiz. It must be used for a follow-up project by the winner or the winning team.

Further information about the procedure you find »here

23.06.2009 (interview in german)

"Armut lässt sich nicht im Labor messen"

Lesen Sie das Interview mit Prof. Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello im SCNATinfo 1/2009.

Zum Interview

08.06.2009

Tour d'Horizon of Literature related to Transdisciplinarity
published in 2008

List of publications 2008 on issues of transdisciplinarity.

Further information and the document is available here.

8.06.2009

JULIE KLEIN at the td-conference 2009

We are pleased to announce that the td-conference 2009 will be opened on Thursday evening with a keynote lecture by one of the pioneering and leading scholars of inter- and transdisciplinarity - Prof. Julie Thompson Klein (Wayne State University, USA).

» more.

20.03.2009

We are pleased to open the Call for the next td-conference, organized together with the Institute of Geography at the University of Berne , 19-21 November 2009.

This year's theme is INTEGRATION.

Further information (CfP, deadlines, etc.) is posted here.

20.03.2009

CONFÉRENCE SUISSE INTER- ET TRANSDISCIPLINARITE – ITD09

Nouvelles pratiques d’enseignement et de recherche: Méthodes, outils, évaluation

SCHWEIZER TAGUNG INTER- UND TRANSDISZIPLINARITÄT – ITD09

Neuste Konzepte in Lehre und Forschung: Methoden, Tools, Evaluation

26.06.2009, Sion, Valais

» open for registration

» further information, Programme

17.2.2009

«Von begleitender zu integrierter ELSI-Forschung am Beispiel der Nanowissenschaften und Nanotechnologien (NuN)» (2009)
Manuela Rossini und Christian Pohl

report download (german) (pdf)

28.11.2008

swiss-academies award for transdisciplinary research supported by Stiftung Mercator Schweiz (td-award)

Winner of the td-award 2008:

• Novaquatis (Eawag)
• read more about the td-award here

Le défi de l’Inter- et Transdisciplinarité -

Herausforderung Inter- und Transdisziplinarität (2008)

Concepts, méthodes et pratiques innovantes dans l’enseignement et la recherche -

Konzepte, Methoden und innovative Umsetzung in Lehre und Forschung

Frédéric Darbellay und Theres Paulsen (Hrsg.)

• link to publisher with further information about the book and the order form here
• blurb pdf

Handbook of Transdisciplinary Research (2008)
Hirsch Hadorn, G.; Hoffmann-Riem, H.; Biber-Klemm, S.; Grossenbacher-Mansuy, W.; Joye, D.; Pohl, C.; Wiesmann, U.; Zemp, E. (Eds.)

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Link to Publisher and order form here
About this book | Table of contents

List of important new literature concerning transdisciplinarity
published in 2007 (survey)

• download pdf

Gestaltungsprinzipien für die transdisziplinäre Forschung (2006, german)

• Table of Contents / Summary (pdf)
• Link to publisher hier

The „Gestaltungsprinzipien für die Transdisziplinäre Forschung“ are translated and published as:

Principles for Designing Transdisciplinary Research (2007)

• Table of Contents / Principles in Brief (pdf)
• Link to Publisher / order form here

We decided to publish the Principles as a book. We are aware of not everybody having the financial means to purchase one. If you are in such a situation, please write to td-net@scnat.ch, describing your circumstances and your interest in the book.

In: GAIA 16/1 (2007): 22–26:

Towards a Publication Culture in Transdisciplinary Research;

Christoph Kueffer, Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, Gabriele Bammer, Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Christian Pohl

• download pdf of the article
• www.oekom.de/gaia

Evaluation inter- und transdisziplinärer Forschung: Humanökologie und Nachhaltigkeitsforschung auf dem Prüfstand;

Susanne Stoll-Kleemann, Christian Pohl (Eds.)

• more (in German)