News from td-net

td-net: Another inspiring year is drawing to a close! Our team has grown in both numbers and strength, and together we've achieved so much—from two SUDs to an amazing ITD24, a Tour d’Horizon of literature, and new collaborations with the SFOE and the Wyss Academy for Nature and others. Reflecting on it all, we feel immense pride and, above all, gratitude for the exchange, collaboration, and feedback.

Before taking on the next year with as many projects, it is time to take a break. In social-anthropology the phases of transition are called the liminal phases. When one is leaving the everyday life to reenter after a moment outside. Our winter break will bring time for resting, reflecting and reentering. Enjoy the liminal phases, you never know what they will bring!

The next td-info will be sent at the beginning of February 2025. 

td-net: Together with the SWEET Office, the td-net supported the funded and newly forming consortia in the task of setting up structures and processes that ensure the involvement of society, industry and politics in the research work from the outset in a transdisciplinary approach. This year, our support focused on the successful launch of the SWEET Call 1-2024. More Information

News from the community

ITD Alliance: In early December, ITD Alliance President, Professor Gabriele Bammer was recognised with the Peter Baume Award, the Australian National University’s most prestigious accolade, awarded for “eminent achievement and merit of the highest order”.  Specific mention was made of her work on Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S). More Information

Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences: At its meeting on 8 November 2024, the Swiss Conference of Higher Education Institutions passed the Ordinance on Quality Assurance in the Area of Scientific Integrity. This resolved to set up a Competence Centre for Scientific Integrity Switzerland. The Competence Centre will act in an advisory capacity for higher education institutions when it comes to scientific integrity in addition to gathering data on scientific integrity in Switzerland. More Information

Science et Cité: The Office for Citizen Science in Switzerland is celebrating a huge milestone with the report «Citizen Science in Switzerland». From now on, it serves as a working basis for exchanges about ways into the future with the community, as it was the case at a workshop in end of October. The central question was: How can we implement the recommended measures of the report? Have a look at the blog

Calls

London School of Economics and Political Science: This year's conference will focus on examining the methods that engage and inspire students to think across disciplinary boundaries and challenge traditional subject-focused thinking and practice. Many educational institutions trumpet their interdisciplinary approaches and opportunities, but there is still a disconnect between what is offered and how students perceive and understand what it means to think in an interdisciplinary way.Submission Deadline: 14 January 2025 More Information

King’s College London: Ageing is too often seen as an inevitable period of decline at the end of life. The UKRI-funded research programme The Sciences of Ageing and the Culture of Youth (SAACY), based at the Centre for the Humanities and Health at King’s College London, a research hub invested in the human dimensions of healthcare, looks at how we can overcome this cultural pessimism. Submission Deadline: 20 January 2025 More Information

Frontiers in Sustainability: Transdisciplinary engineering is the emerging approach to build a capacity in engineering to effectively collaborate across academic-industry/government or community boundaries, and to integrate knowledge across academic disciplines, including the social sciences. This is critical to developing effective decision tools in organizations with the resources to affect material change on the environment and society - including at government level and industrial level in manufacturing and product development. Application Deadline: 31 March 2025 More Information