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The Summer School strengthens master’s and PhD students’ competences in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, focusing on co-creating transformative knowledge with diverse actors. Through hands-on tools, and collaborative experiments, participants explore challenges in designing and conducting research that meaningfully responds to societal needs.
Environmental changes, AI, access to medicines and the impact of social media, show that the problems of our time are simultaneously scientific and social, technological and political, ethical and economic. Students are introduced to the field of Science, Technology and Society (STS) to analyze interactions of knowledge, culture, history and social factors in the make-up of contemporary societies.
Meeting environmental and societal challenges requires responses that integrate a wide range of perspectives from different disciplines (i.e., interdisciplinary integration), as well as from science, policy and practice (i.e., transdisciplinary integration). Drawing on case studies, students will explore concepts, methods and tools of integration in a hands-on experiential setting.
This course explores how science, technology and culture shape and respond to current sustainability challenges. Applying the Science, Technology and Society (STS) toolkit, students examine the social, political, and cultural dimensions of environmental change and develop tools to analyse sustainable futures.
In this course, interdisciplinary student teams work with societal partners to understand and address a real-world problem. Students design and implement a transdisciplinary, solution-oriented research project and communicate their findings to academic and broader societal audiences. In 2026, the focus is on climate change adaptation in Surselva, a mountain region in the Swiss canton of Grisons.
This seminar is designed for PhD students and PostDoc researchers involved in inter- or transdisciplinary research. It addresses and discusses challenges of this kind of research using scientific literature presenting case studies, concepts, theories, methods and by testing practical tools. It concludes with a 10-step approach to make participants' research projects more societally relevant.