NorQuATrans
Normativity, Objectivity and Quality Assurance of Transdisciplinary Processes
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Results
- Invited Article in the science management journal “Transfer & Innovation” of DUZ-Verlag on effective transdisciplinary work in climate services and its evaluation (in German)
- GERICS Report 35: The work (in German only) is dedicated to different models of science-society interaction and the respective background assumptions
- Poster (2022) on evaluation criteria of co-creation processes was awarded the poster prize at the annual meeting of the DeGEval (German evaluation association) (in German) (PDF)
- Paper (2022): Models of science and society: transcending the antagonism
- Paper (2022): Developing criteria of successful processes in co-creative research. A formative evaluation scheme for Climate Services
- Scientific article (2022): Challenges in co-creating Climate Services
- Poster (2021): Actor Roles in Transdisciplinary Research
- 2021: Second meeting of the NorQuATrans project network
Background
The project – designed for three years' duration – consists of a more epistemological and a more applied part and looks at the roles of researchers and other practitioners in transdisciplinary processes. Such roles may be conceived differently, depending on how the model of science-society interaction is spelled out. What specific kinds of normative constraint hold for the relatively young research mode of transdisciplinary? How is the objectivity of research affected? And how do those ideas influence the different roles of stakeholders? This epistemological endeavour is mirrored in the more applied part of the project that investigates the different roles involved in transdisciplinary processes empirically. As accompanying research to other research projects or product development processes the project aims at a concept for a process monitoring framework or transdisciplinary dialogues.
Aims and objectives
The project reflects the issue of role models and process quality from different perspectives and will reveal which role models and behaviours contribute to successful transdisciplinary processes. In doing so, options for metrics of ‘success’ will be developed which are consistent with various science-society interaction models.
Research projects to be accompanied
Project staff
Principal Investigators
Prof. Dr. Hermann Held, Universität Hamburg
Susanne Schuck-Zöller, Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS)
Contributing Researchers
Dr. Elke Keup-Thiel, Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS)
Prof. Dr. Simone Rödder, Universität Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Torsten Wilholt, Universität Hannover
Dr. Markus Dressel, Universität Hamburg
Members of External Project Network
Prof. Dr. Matthias Bergmann
ISOE – Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung, Frankfurt am Main
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Beywl
Pädagogische Hochschule FHNW, Windisch (Schweiz)
Univation GmbH, Köln/Berlin
Manfred Born
ecolo Agentur für Ökologie und Kommunikation, Bremen
Prof. Dr. Guy Brasseur
Max Planck Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg
Dr. Susanne Bührer-Topçu
Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung, Karlsruhe
Dr. Dirk Scheffler
e-fect dialog evaluation consulting, Berlin/Leipzig
Birge Wolf
Universität Kassel, Fachbereich Ökologische Agrarwissenschaften