tdPrax – Strengthening the Practice of Transdisciplinarity
In tdPrax, two books on the basic understanding, methods and concepts of transdisciplinary research were compiled and published.
Research approach
These guides for transdisciplinary research were intended to help research teams draft, implement and guarantee the quality of integrative transdisciplinary research approaches in the future. To this end, scientists viewed and unlocked existing experience on methods and procedures. They also broadened and collated this set of knowledge.
The results were published as books:
Bergmann, Matthias/Engelbert Schramm (Hg.) (2008): Transdisziplinäre Forschung. Integrative Forschungsprozesse verstehen und bewerten, Campus Verlag.
Matthias Bergmann, Thomas Jahn, Tobias Knobloch, Wolfgang Krohn, Christian Pohl, Engelbert Schramm (2010): Methoden transdisziplinärer Forschung. Ein Überblick mit Anwendungsbeispielen, Campus Verlag.
Background
Transdisciplinary research teams often lack knowledge about proven methods, procedures and best practices for transdisciplinary research and quality control. This is mainly due to the lack of an established transdisciplinary tradition. There is also a lack of suitable sources that present proven methods and procedures in a form that can be transferred to different fields of application.
Project partners
Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung (IWT)
Universität Bielefeld
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Schweizerische Akademie der Naturwissenschaften
Advisory board
Ingrid Balzer, Helmholtz Zentrum München - Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt GmbH
Dr. Karolina Begusch-Pfefferkorn, Österreichisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Programm proVISION, Programmleitung und Koordination
Dr. Paul Bergweiler, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Umwelt, Kultur, Nachhaltigkeit
Dr. Hans-Liudger Dienel, TU Berlin, Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft
Prof. Dr. Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, ETH Zürich, Department Umweltwissenschaften
Prof. Dr. Gerd Michelsen, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Umweltkommunikation
Dr. Monika Wächter, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Umwelt, Kultur, Nachhaltigkeit
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Wendorf, Institut für Stadt- und Regionalplanung, TU Berlin, Vizepräsidentin
Funding
Federal Ministry of Education and Research, funding programme Social Ecological Research
Duration
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Project team
Research unit
Transdisciplinary Methods and ConceptsRelated projects
- Biodiversity and Climate: Socio-ecological Biodiversity Research
- Capital4Health – Transdisciplinary research for preventive healthcare
- Concept for the Framework Programme "Social-ecological Research" SÖF
- Dilemmas of sustainability – Meta-criteria for sustainability
- Effective policy advice through sustainability research
- Evalunet - Evaluation Network for Transdisciplinary Research
- Exploratory Studies on SÖF
- Forecasts of Social-Ecological Transformations
- IMPACT – Corporate Social Responsibility in the EU
- Knowledge Communication
- Knowledge transfer of the results of basic scientific research
- Optimisation of the T-Net-Box
- Platform tdAcademy for transdisciplinary research and studies
- Scientific Back-Up for the Research Project EPSECC
- Scientific research support for the Trialogue on Germany’s “Energiewende” of the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA School of Governance
- Social Dimensions of Sustainability
- Support for the Projects for Sustainable Economies
- Sustainability as a Concept in the Social Sciences
- tdPrax2 – transdisciplinary concepts and methods for research and higher education
- Transdisciplinarity in biodiversity research
- Transdisciplinary Cognitive Integration
- Transdisziplinary Integration - Cooperation and Concepts
- TransImpact – Effective Transdisciplinary Research