td-net | Network for Transdisciplinary Research
Forschende und Lehrende wie auch der wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs erhalten auf dieser Webseite Hinweise auf methodische Ansätze und den aktuellen Diskurs in der transdisziplinären Community. Auch Forschungsförderinstitutionen und Vertretende aus der Zivilgesellschaft finden Informationen zu Formen und Prozessen von transdisziplinären Forschungspartnerschaften.
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Tour d’Horizon 2025: td-Literature - share your inspiration
Each year we invite the community of inter- and transdisciplinarity to share their recommendations for the most important publications in research, education and practice. These contributions will be compiled and published on our website as the "Tour d'Horizon 2025". Your expertise matters!
Take part in our survey til 06 April 2026.
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Subscribe now to the tdMOOC Learning Group 2026!
Want to strengthen your skills in tackling complex societal challenges through transdisciplinary research? The free online course tdMOOC Partnering for Change is back — and the next Learning Group runs from 25 February to 16 April 2026.

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Two td-net lectures as part of the CAS for One Health
In October and November, Stefan Müller and Minea Mäder from the td-net had the pleasure of delivering two one-day lectures as part of the newly launched Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in One Health at the University of Bern.
Nächste Veranstaltungen
12:15-13:15
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online

Methoden am Montag: Functional-dynamic Stakeholder Involvement
Dieser Ansatz hilft dabei, die funktionale (bezogen auf das Ziel des jeweiligen Projektschritts) sowie die dynamische (bezogen auf die Art der Beteiligung am jeweiligen Projektschritt) Einbindung der Beteiligten zu spezifizieren.
12:15-13:15
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online

Methoden am Montag: Storywall
Ein auf Geschichten basierendes Hilfsmittel, das verschiedenen Akteuren erlaubt, rückblickend zu betrachten, wie ein gemeinsamer Prozess wahrgenommen worden ist.
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University of Évora

International Transdisciplinary Conference ITD27 Working Title: “Bridging Knowledge and Networks: Inter- and Transdisciplinarity for Transformative Change.”
This conference offers leading trainers, researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world the opportunity to share their knowledge, insights, and expertise on the critical issues in inter- and transdisciplinarity needed to build capacity in and through research, education, policy making, activism, and artistic engagement.
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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Toolkitting: an unrecognized form of expertise for overcoming fragmentation in inter and transdisciplinarity
Laursen, B, Vienni-Baptista, B, Bammer, G, Di Giulio, A, Paulsen, T, Robson-Williams, M, Studer, S (2024)
A growing number of inter- and transdisciplinary (ITD) toolkits provide methods, processes, concepts, heuristics, frameworks, and other resources for designing and implementing ITD research. A brief overview of the currently fragmented toolkits landscape is provided, fleshed out through descriptions of four toolkits.
Gaia Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

Two decades of transdisciplinarity in Switzerland: Past, present, future
Paulsen, T, Küffer, C (2023)
Switzerland has been a stronghold of transdisciplinarity in the past decades, thanks in particular to saguf and td-net. td-net’s 20 years anniversary is an opportunity to recall the past and look ahead.
Gaia Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
