Accademie svizzere delle scienze a+
Covid-19 - Science and Society
Paulsen, T, Zinsstag, J (2021)
Understanding the virus, preventing deaths, avoiding chaos, revealing facts and prepare the ground for social support for measuresscience, politics and society came closer together during the pandemic, but at the same time there were also confrontations. Very early on, January 2020, more frequent meetings were suddenly held in the House of Academies, in which the pandemic was anticipated. The question ‘How can science be of benefit to society?’ was and is at the forefront.
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
