Leuphana University Lüneburg is pleased to invite you to the Td Summer School 2019. This year, the Td Summer School will take place in Kazbegi, Georgia (Caucasus) in cooperation with Tbilisi State University, Georgia, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria, and the Armenian State Pedagogical University, Armenia.
The Td Summer School offers a five-day intensive Td training module on transdisciplinary research that will prepare researchers and practitioners for transformative research on societal challenges at the science | society interface.
Participants will gain input on theoretical and methodological foundations as well as experience in designing and implementing transdisciplinary research processes. The aim is to broaden academic researchers’ disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives towards a transdisciplinary approach and to enable practitioners to elaborate their role in transdisciplinary research processes. This year a particular focus is on interculturality to foster exchange between researchers and practitioners from different world regions, in particular the Caucasus region, and to mutually learn from different transdisciplinary research traditions. Subsequently, an optional weekend program on Saturday, 6, July 2019 will be organized.
Funding
The organizers offer full scholarships to selected participants from the Caucasus Countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russian Federation, Turkey). Based on the needs of the selected participants, the scholarships can cover the registration fee or/and travel, accommodation in shared rooms and meals. These scholarships are provided by the project CaucaSusT – Transdisciplinarity for Sustainable Tourism Development in the Caucasus Region, funded by the Austrian Integration Program for Higher Education and Research Development (APPEAR) . Researchers, post-graduate students with research experiences and practitioners (e.g. civil society organizations; administrative bodies; or SMEs) from the Caucasus countries listed above can apply for this scholarship (from the Russian Federation participants living or conducting research in the North Caucasus Federal District will be prioritized, from Turkey, participants living in or conducting research in its Caucasus area will be prioritized).
Registration deadline is 20 April 2019
For more information, please see the event hompage.