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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Partnering for Change: Link Research to Societal Challenges
University of Basel and Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
This course explored transdisciplinary research as a framework that helps to address complex societal challenges. It investigated, how to involve many actors with different perspectives and knowledge, introducing guiding questions, principles and methods as well as cases from diverse contexts.
6 weeks, 5 hours per week
Jakob Zinsstag
Prof. Dr. (University of Basel and President TD-Net, Swiss Academies of Sciences)
University of Basel
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop your research skills as you investigate how to co-produce knowledge for society and academia.
- Reflect transdisciplinarity – its principles, its research processes and the context in which it is promising.
- Apply transdisciplinary approaches to societally relevant questions.
- Identify guiding questions, phases and steps of transdisciplinary project.
- Apply the principles and steps of transdisciplinary research to examples in order to reflect the implication for your own projects.
- Reflect the role of scientists and stakeholders in society and consider the ethical implications of co-producing processes.
Syllabus
- Research skills needed in order to produce relevant outcomes for society and academia
- Transdisciplinarity: principles, research processes, and application
- Guiding questions, phases, and steps in transdisciplinary projects
- Pitfalls and opportunities in transdisciplinary projects
- Ethical implications of co-production processes
- Examples of transdisciplinary projects on sustainable development, migration, and health topics
Issued on 18th April 2020
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