Transdisciplinary Education and Science
The complexity of major global challenges such as climate change, migration, global health, and urbanisation, requires universities and teaching institutions to innovate their education offers by fostering collaborative and participative approaches. Whereas interdisciplinarity aims on an enhanced coaction between disciplines, transdisciplinarity seeks to describe, recognise and explore knowledge and proficiency across, over and beyond (lat. trans) disciplines (lat. disciplinae). Its core idea is to create strategic research alliances between university and society: faculty staff members collaborate with experts and practitioners from politics, culture, industry and civil society to develop sustainable technologies and solutions to current challenges.
