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Knowledge and Participation

Can you have your cake and eat it too? Managing societal and scientific impacts in transdisciplinary research

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Authors

Emilia Nagy, Lena Theiler, Oskar Marg, Martina Schäfer, Alexandra Lux

Publication Type

Journal

Published in

GAIA 35 (1) (2026), 8–12

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Nagy, Emilia, Lena Theiler, Oskar Marg, Martina Schäfer, Alexandra Lux (2026): Can you have your cake and eat it too? Managing societal and scientific impacts in transdisciplinary research. GAIA 35 (1), 8–12

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  • Dr. Lena Theiler

    Dr. Lena Theiler

    Research Scientist

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  • Dr. Alexandra Lux

    Dr. Alexandra Lux

    Member of the Executive Board, Head of the Knowledge Processes and Transformations Hub

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Platform tdAcademy for transdisciplinary research and studies
Knowledge and Participation

Platform tdAcademy for transdisciplinary research and studies

The tdAcademy platform promotes transdisciplinary research by generating knowledge for its effective design, evaluating new methods and formats and offering an international fellowship program.

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Transdisciplinarity

Transdisciplinarity is essential for transformation-oriented sustainability research because the complex challenges associated with social-ecological transformations cannot be solved within the boundaries of individual disciplines. These challenges require the collaboration of natural, social, and engineering sciences and the humanities, as well as of actors from politics, business, and civil society.

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