The International Transdisciplinarity Conference took place online on 13-17 September 2021 and was hosted by ETH Zürich, Switzerland. The conference theme was Creating spaces and cultivating mindsets for learning and experimentation. Crises unleashed by climate change and, more recently, the COVID-​19 pandemic, urge us to finding sustainable solutions to social, cultural, political, economic, ecological and, health challenges. The crisis has shown that existing modes of overcoming challenges are limited. There is a call to move beyond what we already know and do. Building spaces and cultivating mindsets for learning and experimentation are key for creating these new possibilities. Real-​world labs, living labs, social…

The SHAPE-ID project toolkit supporting pathways to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research for researchers, research organisations, funders, policymakers and societal partners is now available online at www.shapeidtoolkit.eu!

Join us on 10 June for the launch our final project toolkit, which offers tools and resources to help researchers, research organisations, funders, policymakers, and societal partners make informed decisions about developing and supporting inter- and transdisciplinary research with the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, STEM disciplines, and societal partners.

SHAPE-ID partners contributed to a timely and inspiring panel on multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary dynamics in research and education at the annual European Humanities Conference in virtual Lisbon on 7 May 2021.

Three new reports and a policy brief from the SHAPE-ID project are now available! Report of workshops and analysis of IDR/AHSS integration learning cases This document presents detailed reports from all six of the SHAPE-ID learning case workshops, which took place across Europe (in person and online) between December 2019 and October 2020. Authors: Giorgia Galvini, Carlo Sessa, Doireann Wallace, Keisha Taylor-Wesselink, Jane Ohlmeyer, Catherine Lyall, Isabel Fletcher, Bianca Vienni Baptista, Christian Pohl, Maciej Maryl, Anna Buchner, Piotr Wciślik, Marta Błaszczyńska and Antonia Carlo González Recommendations and Measures to Maximise IDR Impact on Society This report draws on the findings…

The Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology & Society (STS) Meeting 2021 took place online on 15-17 February 2021. The event was intended to encourage and promote the social, historical and philosophical study of sciences in Switzerland. This event lasted for three days and aimed to bring together bringing together STS scholars at all career levels. The SHAPE-ID team presented two papers in the session Science Policy. Isabel Fletcher presented on Interdisciplinary Research and Problem Solving: Analysing European Policy Discourses, and Bianca Vienni Baptista presented on Shaping the scientific and policy discourses through problematization: a heuristic tool to…