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Tallinn workshop presentations

Within the larger scope of INTREPID, the symposium ‘Enabling Interdisciplinarity in urban studies – Methods and Tools. Experiences from Case Studies’ was dedicated to learn from the diversity of current inter- and transdisciplinary practices within and beyond academia, and the institutional and practical barriers to urban related interdisciplinarity in research programming and funding. The objective of the symposium was to elaborate on relevant case studies, including in situ discussions, with a focus on multifaceted experiences in negotiating the research design, objectives, and methodologies in order to overcome the significant interdisciplinary barriers in urban research.


If you are curious about the case studies please take a look at:
 
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Open call to participate in fellowship missions (STSMs)

There is open call to participate in the Phase 2 of the first round of fellowship missions (STSMs). Our aim in the 1st cycle of STSM’s is to Reflect and learn (Challenge 1) about how ID knowledge creation is embedded in the research institutions work, formally and informally, and how it is enabled or constrained by current funding practices, by targeting institutions that are considered examples of good practice. Eight STSM’s were completed so far in a mixture of research/teaching and funding institutions. (see STSM blog).

There are funds to complete another 9 STSM’s until March 2017.  STSM’s can be an extremely rich experience for both hosts and applicants and a source of knowledge gathering that is crucial for INTREPID Challenge 1.

Please profit from this opportunity and let us know, as soon as possible, of colleagues/students (or show interest yourself) and potential hosts. Urban research/funding institutions will be privileged but other examples of good practice are welcome at this stage.
 

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Share with us toolkits and methods for inter and trans-disciplinary research


We are collecting information about toolkits and methods for inter and trans-disciplinary research, similar to this example:
http://www.naturalsciences.ch/topics/co-producing_knowledge/methods
The information you provide will become a key resource for our Network and website 
We ask you to please send us links to web pages and/or references to published material.
Thank you

Transdisciplinarity is key to sustainable urban futures

David Simon and Susan Parnell - both members of INTREPID's International Advisory Board  are co-authors in McPhearson et al (2016) Scientists must have a say in the future of cities, Nature, 538, 165-6
 
"Support transdisciplinary research and synthesis. Communities with relevant knowledge must guide urban-development policy over the short and long term. Transdisciplinary research must be supported through new sources of urban science funding and organizations. Existing knowledge should be synthesized and fed into policymaking at all levels."

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HABITAT III messages to the INTREPID process

By Elena Dimitrova

In October 2016 the capital city of Ecuador, Quito, hosted the United Nations HABITAT III Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development. Attended by about 45,000 people from 167 countries, the conference brought together high-level politicians, mayors, representatives of local and regional authorities, civil society and community groups, the private sector and urban planners. Thus in a city of 2.5 million inhabitants, at 2850 m above the sea level, they made together a next step on a 40-years-long path (from Vancouver in 1976 and via Istanbul in 1996) towards a common understanding on needed global action to guarantee sustainable urban future for all. Habitat III is estimated to have had the strongest participation of civil society, stakeholders, and local authorities in the history of UN conferences. The New Urban Agenda adopted at the conference confirmed a worldwide commitment to a sustainable urban future thus posing an huge challenge for undertaking effective action at all levels.

Three main messages among the impressive variety of topics discussed and voices heard at the conference could be considered particularly important to INTREPID process.

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Thanks for Barcelona Training School Call Dissemination

 

We have received 55 applications to the Barcelona Training School, all of them of very high quality. Applications came from  Austria (1), Belgium (1), Croatia (3), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), Germany (1), Ireland (1), Israel (1), Italy (2), Lithuania (1), Macedonia (2), Poland (1), Portugal (11), Puerto Rico (1), South Africa (2), Spain (11), Sweden (1), Switzerland (1), Turkey (2), Ukraine (2).  

We are currently working on the selection of 22 trainees. Trainees’ selection will be based on application interest and complementary for the inter-transdisciplinary workshops.
 
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