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Edition 2024

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Fourth edition (2024): Taking stock from three decades of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research for social transformations: fostering justice, pluralism and sustainability

On 28 November 2024, the fourth edition of the “Conference on Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development" took place in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

This conference was co-organised with the European University Circle U. and the SEED research center from ULiege.

Programme

14:00 - 16:00 keynote presentations (also livestreamed)

Topic: stock taking of three decades of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary for social transformations

Keynote 1- Assessing the impacts of urban real-world-labs for sustainability transformations: insights from co-evaluation processes

Karoline Augenstein - Jun.-Prof. Dr. for Policy analysis, transformation research and sustainability, University of Wuppertal, Germany

Keynote 2 - Dealing with contradictions and competing viewpoints in research on place-based transformations.

Olivier Coutard - Research director, CNRS (77447 Champs-sur-Marne), France

Keynote 3 - Experiential knowledge from patient groups in biomedical research and delivery of medical care

Madeleine Akrich - Research director, Sociology of Innovation, Ecole des Mines, Paris, France

Keynote 4 - Whose problems, whose solutions? Addressing tensions between digital transformation and environmental sustainability

Ulrike Felt - Professor of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna (Austria)

16:00-18:00 Panel discussion and Interactive workshop (onsite only)

Topic : Defining a research agenda for the science of transformative interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research

Methodology: Interactive research seminar with research directors at UCLouvain and international senior researchers

16h-17h Open panel discussion with the key-notes and the coordinators of the UCLouvain seminar on transdisciplinary research methodologies

17h-18h Parallel working groups and plenary discussion based on an evaluation grid for assessing interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary research

18H-20H Networking cocktail