Course: Partnering for Change: Link Research to Societal Challenges

Great! You have completed Week 3, gaining further expertise in transdisciplinary research projects (TDR). How is TDR carried out? In this week, we went into the phases and steps of …

The transdisciplinary MontanAqua project was part of a Swiss national research programme on sustainable water management that aimed at solving problems of national importance through coordinated research efforts. The main …

Transdisciplinary research (TDR) generally aims to contribute to solving, mitigating, or preventing various societal challenges. It assumes that collaboration between various scientific disciplines and societal actors is a precondition to …

Although there is no standardised procedure for co-producing knowledge in transdisciplinary research, there are methods and tools to deal with particular challenges. Several online toolboxes compile such tools, such as …

Societal challenges involve a multitude of actors with different roles, interests, and power. Understanding these constellations is an important basis for transdisciplinary research (TDR) projects. It is also a prerequisite …

To structure transdisciplinary research (TDR) projects, it is helpful to think in phases. Each phase has specific questions to ask and tasks with which to deal. We structure the TDR …

What is transdisciplinary research (TDR)? What are its goals and principles and when is it applicable? In Week 2, TDR is described as an approach to address complex societal challenges …

In the first week, the BESTandermatt study was introduced. Although research on the socio-cultural impact of tourism was instituted in the 1970s, few empirical studies have been published on this …

The issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crosses national boundaries, several sectors (eg human health, animal health, trade, and the environment), and scales of organisation (eg from local to international levels). …

There are various reasons why international labour migration has become an increasingly important source of income in Nepal. Indeed, in 2013, the official total amount of remittance was recorded as …

With transdisciplinary research (TDR) we try to link two processes (see the two bold arrows in the diagram below). The arrow on the right side stands for society handling sustainability …

As we have explored in the previous steps, transdisciplinary research (TDR) is a very promising approach when it comes to addressing complex societal challenges. However, transdisciplinary approaches are not for …

There are many different definitions of transdisciplinary research (TDR), as TDR has been developed in different contexts and for different purposes. In US health research, for instance, transdisciplinarity means to …

An intensive week draws to its close. We would like to congratulate you on your achievements – there were quite a few! In the first week of our course, we …

Transdisciplinary research (TDR) is in itself a complex endeavour. However, theory and methodology are best illustrated with examples. Our course, thus, uses cases to this end. It presents TDR as …