tdAcademy strengthens the knowledge base, further development and networking in transdisciplinary research via a working mode that closely interlinks the modules "Research", "Enable" and "Connect" with their various activities.
The tdAcademy strengthens the knowledge base, advancement, and networking of transdisciplinary research through a working mode that interconnects the modules of "Researching," "Enabling," and "Connecting" with their respective activities.
During the first phase of the project (June 2020 - May 2023), the focus of the tdAcademy was on four topic lines that explore key questions of transdisciplinary research:
- The societal impacts of transdisciplinary research, building upon the insights from the predecessor project TransImpact.
- The scientific impacts of transdisciplinary research, which have been less explored to date.
- Dealing with contextual dependencies concerning the generalizability of context-specific findings and the implementation of transdisciplinary research in different cultural contexts.
- Exploring new formats for conducting transdisciplinary research or incorporating specific participatory concepts that have the potential to enrich transdisciplinary research.
During the second phase of the project (June 2023 - May 2025), the focus is on gaining a better understanding of the intersections between the topic lines in order to identify synergies and contradictions. At the same time, the substantive work within the topic lines will be continued.
TransImpact
tdAcademy succeeds TransImpact. The results from the completed research project TransImpact will be available in English soon. For each of the central topics – i.e. problem definition, participation of societal actors, knowledge integration and transferability of results – recommendations and methods for an adaptive shaping of transdisciplinary research processes to foster societal effects will be provided. TransImpact was carried out by ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research and the Center for Technology and Society (ZTG) at Technische Universität Berlin between 2015 and 2019 (funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research).
TransImpact approach to fostering potential societal effectiveness of transdisciplinary research
(Source: Lux et al. 2019: 189)