2.1 Building an academic environment to facilitate transdisciplinary team science (G)

@hildeverbeek, Lotte Krabbenborg, & Scott Douglas (The Young Academy)

The Young Academy has conducted a project collective knowledge development, in which it explored how transdisciplinarity in academia can be embedded. In this workshop results from the project will be used to explore with participants how the academic environment can support these transdisciplinary partnerships. What roles and competencies does that require from academics and how can teams be supported? What infrastructure is being developed to ensure knowledge sharing and knowledge integration? What obstacles and opportunities do academics and civil-society partners encounter when setting up and carrying out transdisciplinary projects? We distinguish here between obstacles and opportunities encountered in day-to-day working practice, in cooperation during the project, and in cooperation with the funding bodies. This will result in recommendations and clear guidelines for researchers, funders, and knowledge institutions – on the best way for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research to be carried out and how it can be supported using the Recognition and Reward movement.