Online Materials for Further Education

The tdAcademy would like to contribute to capacity building in the field of transdisciplinary research by documenting its findings from research and exchange online and making them available free of charge. In this section you will therefore find a growing variety of materials in text, image and video that further educate on topics of transdisciplinary research with a focus on our four topic lines.

Video (EN): The responsive and constitutive character of transdisciplinarity: consequences for higher education

The webinar with Ulli Vilsmaier (Responsive Research Collective, Switzerland) on is now available online.

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Video (EN): Webinar: Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Rural Development in the Mexican context: knowledge co-production and rural change

The webinar with Ana Burgos (Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM) is now available online.

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Video (EN): Webinar on developing Theories of Change in inter- and transdisciplinary contexts

In the webinar „Keep rol(l)ing! Developing Theories of Change in inter- and transdisciplinary contexts“ on July 12, 2022, the tdAcademy team at ZTG and Sabine Hoffmann (eawag) presented the results of their collaborative working process.

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Video (EN): Webinar with Gemma Tejedor and Jordi Segalas on the topic "Introducing Transdiciplinary to Higher Education"

The webinar with Gemma Tejedor and Jordi Segalas (ISST/UPC) on "Introducing Transdisciplinarity in Higher Education" is now available online.

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Video: Webinar with Sadaf Taimur on Design Thinking in Higher Education

Watch the recording from our Webinar with Sadaf Taimur on 'Design thinking as Digital Transformative Pedagogy in Higher Sustainability Education.'

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Documentation: Webinar on Hegemony in institutional transformation

In the webinar on December 9th, 2021, tdAcademy-Fellows Livia Fritz and Ulli Vilsmaier elaborated on and discussed the concept of hegemony in the work of Antonio Gramsci.

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Video: Presentation on “Action-oriented knowledge for sustainability”

As a kickoff of the tdAcademy Capacity Building event series Guido Caniglia and Christopher Luederitz shared fruitful insights into action-oriented knowledge for sustainability with us on September 21, 2021.

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Video (German): Webinar with Peter Wehling on disputes about the scientificity of TD research

In this webinar, Peter Wehling analyses the relationship between established science and transdisciplinarity and deconstructs the most common objections towards transdisciplinarity.

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ITD Session: How to assess societal impact of research

In preparation for the session, we present the submissions for the ITD workshop on impact assessment.

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ITD Session: Potentials and limitations of Theory of Change (ToC)

In preparation for the session, we present the submissions for the ITD workshop on ToC.

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Impact orientation is an ongoing topic! Results from the dialog forum

In March 2022, topic line 1 held a dialogue forum to present and discuss preliminary results and to stimulate exchange among participants.

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What is in it for research? A workshop report

On June 10, 2022, ISOE - Institute for Social-Ecological Research organized an online workshop as part of the topic line 2 to reflect on scientific impacts of transdisciplinary research.

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Short Report: Dialogue Forums in Topic Line 4

In March and July 2021, two dialogue forums for scientists and practitioners with different methodological approaches took place. The short report summarizes the process and results of the workshops.

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DTdT22 Workshop: Capacity Building for Transdisciplinary Research

In March 2022, the tdAcademy conducted a workshop together with the Schader Foundation on how educational offerings promote mutual learning and design processes.

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Workshop Summary: ECR Session on Capacity Building needs at ITD21

Results from the early-career session as part of the ITD Conference in September 2021

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How to build capacities for context-sensitive research: A workshop report

In November 2022, the Leuphana research team organized an online workshop as part of topic line 3 to reflect on contextual dependencies in transdisciplinary research.

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Keeping a continuous eye on impact - results of the reflection workshop

In November 2022, Josefa Kny and Martina Schäfer (ZTG/TU Berlin) organised a digital reflection workshop on preliminary findings of topic line 1 "Societal Effects", discussed and enriched by comments from Arnim Wiek and Flurina Schneider.

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