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.
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31.07.2025, swiss academies of arts and sciences
Call for Prize: National Prize for Open Research Data
Since 2023, the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences have been awarding the National Prize for Open Research Data (ORD Prize). The prize rewards researchers for innovative practices in the field of ORD and aims to promote change towards open research practices.
Are you following innovative practices in the field of Open Research Data? Apply now for the National ORD Prize 2025! Applications are open until 31 July 2025.
01.08.2025, swissnex
NextGen Open Call: Imagining Planetary Diplomacy
Are you 30 or younger and passionate about rethinking humans’ relationship with planet Earth? Submit your visions and ideas for a chance to present at the Swissnex Planetary Summit – where the next generation can guide the way for a more livable future on Earth.
Application Deadline: 01 August 2025
01.08.2025
Call for Papers: diskrus Ausgabe 10: Forschung mit Wirkung? Von Transdisziplinarität bis Citizen Science im gesellschaftlichen Kontext
diskurs Zeischrift
Klimawandel, soziale Ungerechtigkeit, Digitalisierung und politische Polarisierung – in einer Zeit tiefgreifender gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche und globaler Herausforderungen wächst die Bedeutung einer Forschung, die nicht nur technologische, soziale und ökologische Probleme einer Gesellschaft bespricht, sondern diese Gesellschaft auch aktiv in einen Lösungs- und Forschungsprozess einbezieht (dazu beispielsweise Hochschulrektorenkonferenz 2018). So zielen Forschungskonzepte wie Reallabore, Science Diplomacy oder Citizen Science auf eine Integration außerwissenschaftlicher Akteur:innen, während „Lai:innen“ in beteiligenden Forschungsdesigns zu Ko-Forschenden werden (sollen). Derweil ergänzen deutsche Hochschulen seit den 2000er-Jahren ihre Aufgaben der Forschung und Lehre um eine dritte, eine Third Mission: den Transfer wissenschaftlichen Wissens zur und die Kommunikation mit der Gesellschaft, um besagte Herausforderungen anzugehen, Ressourcen zu bündeln und um – besonders im Fall ‚drittmittelrelevanter‘ Forschung – Finanzierungen zu sichern.
Die kommende Ausgabe von diskurs widmet sich diesen zentralen Fragen und lädt Beiträge ein, die sich theoretisch und/oder empirisch mit folgenden Themenbereichen auseinandersetzen:
Das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft
Methoden und Standards der partizipativen Forschung
Technologische Innovationen als Brücke zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft
Die Politizität wissenschaftlicher Forschung
Einreichefrist: 01. August 2025
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07.08.25, PartWiss
CAll for Abstracts: Gemeinsam forschen – Impulse aus Citizen Science, partizipativer und transdisziplinärer Forschung
Das Jahresthema der PartWiss 25-Konferenz entwickelt sich entlang folgender Themenschwerpunkte:
Impulse für Innovation in der Wissenschaft
Impulse für Zivilgesellschaft, Politik und Demokratie
Impulse für Bildung, Schule und Lehre
Impulse für ausgewählte Anwendungsbereiche: Neue Technologien; Natur, Klima und Umwelt; Gesundheit
Offene Themen
Deadline für Abstracts: 07. August 2025
13.08.2025, World Biodoversity Forum Davos
Call for Abstracts: Session and Workshop Proposals
Under the theme of the World Biodiversity Forum 2026 Leading Transformation Together, sessions will be arranged in 10 thematic tracks, from a more fundamental discussion of biodiversity change to economic risks, finances, legislation, and opportunities for action. Proposals for sessions, workshops and cultural events within these thematic tracks are invited.
Deadline for Abstracts: 13 August 2025
15.09.2025, The Daylite Award
The Daylight Award 2026 — Call for nominations Recognising excellence in daylight research and daylight in architecture
We invite you to submit nominations for The Daylight Award. This international award honours and supports research in the scientific understanding of daylight and its significance for health, wellbeing and a balanced ecosystem, as well as its experiential and mental value in architectural design. The intention is to underline the collaboration of disciplines that are usually considered as separate professional realms of expertise.
Nomination period:
16 May 2025 – 15 September 2025
15.10.2025, Bern Academy of the Arts, University of Bern
"Climate, arts, and activism: Critical Inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives"
We welcome contributions from different academic disciplines (geography, environmental humanities, sustainability studies, transformation research), artistic and design research and artistic submissions, and other fields of practice.
Proposals are encouraged from regions, cultures, and people that have not been previously featured or addressed in the discourses and scholarship.
We welcome journal articles, roundtables, interviews, and visual analyses, as well as creative or multimedia contributions, including poetry, comics, & speculative fiction, performances, and podcasts.
Due: Oct 15th 2025
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
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.