NorQuATrans
Normativity, Objectivity and Quality Assurance of Transdisciplinary Processes

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Results
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.
Selection of research projects to be accompanied
ADAPTER (ADAPT terrestrial systems)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
Scientific Staff
Mirko Suhari
Markus Dressel
Members of External Project Network
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. Alexandra Lux
ISOE – Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung, Frankfurt am Main
Senckenberg Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main
Dr. Dirk Scheffler
e-fect dialog evaluation consulting, Berlin/Leipzig
Birge Wolf
Universität Kassel, Fachbereich Ökologische Agrarwissenschaften
Jutta Wolff
Institut für Bildungsmonitoring und Qualitätsentwicklung (IfBQ), Hamburg