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Transdisciplinarity

With the network for transdisciplinary research (td-net), the swiss academies play a key-role in furthering transdisciplinary research and education in all thematic sections. As a swiss platform td-net is highly connected to networks and initiatives around the world that span the areas of research, capacity building and funding.

A part of transdisciplinarity is, that socially relevant knowledge is not developed in the ivry tower of science, but with non-scientific partners. Furthermore it is often necessary to examine socially relevant problems across disciplinary-bounderies (interdisciplinarity) and to develop effective strategies together with politics, economic and society (co-production of knowledge). For this purpose, space- and time-dependent processes of different scales must be researched (system knowledge), as well as the interlocked governance problems and options for change (transformation knowledge) must be named. Plus a successfull transdisciplinary research (TDR) needs fundamentals , on which a social consensus on goals can be reached (target knowledge). For this research methods are provided.