Calls
Fund a research project? Publish a publication? Do you want to help organise events? Here you will find current calls on topics related to interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity.
The website is constantly being updated. If you have similar messages for our community, please do not hesitate to contact us.
17.11.25, DUT Driving Urban Transitions
Call 2025 "Driving Urban Transitions Partnerschaft"
Die "Driving Urban Transitions Partnership (DUT)" ist eine gemeinsame Forschungs- und Innovationsinitiative von über 60 Förderorganisationen aus 30 europäischen Ländern und der Europäischen Kommission. In der neuen Ausschreibung der europäischen Partnerschaft können Projektskizzen für transnationale, transdisziplinäre Forschungs- und Innovationsprojekte zum Thema nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung bis zum 17. November 2025 (13:00 CET) eingereicht werden. Von den drei Themenschwerpunkten der Ausschreibung – Energie, Mobilität und Kreislaufwirtschaft – fördert das Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR) Projekte im Bereich der nachhaltigen städtischen Mobilität ("15-minute City"). Für antragstellende Organisationen aus Deutschland ist die Teilnahme am Topic 1 „Next steps for multimodal urban mobility, building on the travel experience“ möglich.
18.11.25, World Biodiversity Forum
Call for Abstracts: World Biodiversity Forum 2026
More than 90 sessions, in 10 thematic tracks will bring together international researchers, artists, practitioners, companies and policy makers from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. Please submit your abstract for an oral or poster contribution to the session that best fits your topic. The sessions welcoming your abstracts cover diverse topics, ranging from fundamental biodiversity-ecosystem functioning aspects to policy, finance, and law.
18.11.25, World Biodiversity Forum, Ndubuisi Idejiora-Kalu
Call for Abstracts: World Biodiversity Forum 2026 Sub Session on Biodiverstiy recovery through Transdisciplinary environmental systems reengineering
The survivability of the variety of life on earth at all levels is dependent on the constantness of the earth’s biological diversity. The distortions of our biodiversity as a result of our veracious quest for new needs, modernization and accessible energy for supporting these activities have constituted grave consequences to existing life on earth. There is therefore the urgent need for biodiversity recovery solutions and this must transcend known disciplinary areas and ‘knowings’ and should be open to a Transdisciplinary spectra where various forms of Transdisciplinary systems engineering can be harnessed to build a wider and more effective biodiversity recovery modality for our planet, mitigating as well, associated consequences aggressively and gnawingly linked to water, food, health and climate change.
The session is convenered by Ndubuisi Idejiora-Kalu
Submission deadline: 18 November 2025
21 November, various organizers
Call for Abstracts: Marine Transdisciplinaritx Co-Evaluating the Status Quo and Co-Designing the way forward
We’re thrilled to announce that abstract submission is now OPEN for the Conference Marine transdisciplinarity: Co-evaluating the status quo and co-designing the way forward — a conference that aims to reflect on transdisciplinary research activities, theories, and results in marine research, with a special focus on the three research missions of the German Marine Research Alliance (DAM).
We welcome abstract submissions for oral presentations in the following sessions:
Transdisciplinarity in large interdisciplinarity joint projects
Knowledge integration and co-creation in transdisciplinary projects
Coastal living labs in theory and practice
Good Practices Towards Coastal Resilience: Establishing a Shared Understanding of Successful Co-Design
The conference will take place in Kiel at Kiel University from February, 4–5, 2026.
28.11.2025, oekom
GAIA Masters Student Paper Award
The international journal GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society invites Masters students to participate in the GAIA Masters Student Paper Award. This award recognizes outstanding research from Master’s theses or research-based courses in the field of transdisciplinary environmental and sustainability science.
Submission Deadline: 28 November 2025
30.11.25, ETH Zurich D-USYS
Call for Applications: CAS ETH in Climate Innovation programme
Tackle climate challenges with real solutions.
Lead net-zero transitions in interdisciplinary teams.
Learn to think in complex systems - in just 6 months at ETH Zürich.
The CAS ETH in Climate Innovation empowers professionals to:
- lead transitions
- navigate uncertainty and complexity
- develop impactful solutions in interdisciplinary teams
Apply by 30 November 2025
31.12.25, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Call for Contributions: Transdisciplinary research for transformative change: from conceptual insights to societal impact
This article Collection aims to advance transdisciplinary and transformative conceptual and methodological approaches to societal and global challenges. It focuses on transdisciplinarity in research, funding, and policymaking, particularly as applied to efforts that engage with societal and global challenges.
Submission deadline: 31 December 2025
09.01.26, future earth
Call for session proposals | Towards a just and habitable world: exploring the role of technology
his conference invites researchers from across the natural and social sciences, engineering, and the humanities, as well as scholars and practitioners engaged in inter- and transdisciplinary research, to critically examine the role of technology in shaping sustainability. We will explore how technological systems — past, present, and emerging — have the potential to both sustain and undermine well-being and life on Earth for humans and non-humans.
Submission deadline: 9 January 2025
no deadline mentioned, University of Zurich
Call for Fellowship: Fellowship in Crisis Competence
The University of Zurich Fellowship in Crisis Competence is a short-term research opportunity at the Universi-ty of Zurich. The Fellowship is part of the transdisciplinary project Agora – Urban Crisis Competence, co-lead by the City of Zurich and the Center for Crisis Competence at the University of Zurich and financed by the Merca-tor Foundation Switzerland. The Agora is a platform for dialogue between researchers and senior staff of the City of Zurich with the goal to improve the crisis competencies of the city based on current research and to inspire novel research questions.