Dear colleagues,

We would like to touch base after the summer break in the Northern Hemisphere. We hope that you are managing fine despite the coronavirus pandemic, and that you are safe and healthy.

We have a few interesting news items to share, e.g. a blog post about “Co-labouring” and how it can enhance interactions among researchers and key stakeholders, and a webinar link about a new profession of integration experts.

In addition, you might get inspired about the tips in the guidebook about convening online meetings, making your online meetings during corona times even more interesting.

Please also remember to send us news, jobs, and events for this quarterly e-newsletter, as well as pass along feedback and proposals by email to coproduction@glp.earth. The deadline for submissions for the next newsletter is 23 November.

Your WG Coordinators,
Isabelle Providoli
Albrecht Ehrensperger
Narcisa Pricope
Jean-Christophe Castella

What do we mean by co-labouring? What practices does it involve? How can it enhance interactions among researchers and key stakeholders in transdisciplinary research? A new blog post by Robert Pijpers and Sabine Luning is based on their work between mining actors, artists and researchers in Ghana.

Read the blog post

The recording of the webinar Global efforts in developing and promoting a new profession of integration experts and expertise in inter- and transdisciplinary collaborative research is now on the Integration and Implementation Sciences YouTube channel.

This webinar features brief presentations by 6 presenters (in order):

• Sabine Hoffmann, PhD, Group Leader Transdisciplinary Research at Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland
• Christine Ogilvie Hendren, PhD, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University, USA
• Kristine Glauber, PhD, Program Director of Team Science Core, Clinical and Translational Science Institute Duke University, USA
• Gabriele Bammer, PhD, Professor of Integration and Implementation Sciences, The Australian National University, Australia
• Julie Thompson Klein, PhD, Prof. of Humanities Emerita at Wayne State University, USA and International Research Affiliate of Transdisciplinarity Lab at ETH-Zurich, Switzerland
• Tobias Buser, Head of ITD Alliance, Network for Transdisciplinary Research (td-net) Switzerland

The webinar explores how to combine forces in developing a working group on integration experts/expertise to advance shared goals under the auspice of the new international ITD Alliance.

The webinar was broadcast and recorded on July 14, 2020. The webinar series is a project of the Interdisciplinary Integration Research Careers Hub (Intereach), which provides mechanisms for communication, education, and collaboration among those interested in a community of practice around the interdisciplinary and integrative functions critical to team science research.

Watch the recording

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If you’re regularly convening online meetings and events, you may find this latest free-to-download guidebook helpful. In it, members of the community of practice at the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement detail twelve different virtual event format “recipes” - from ice breakers and demos to plenary sessions, virtual co-working and collaborative sprints.

Learn more

The goal of this CRA is to provide a science base for achieving sustainability goals. The CRA will support 1-2 years of collaborative research networking activities that focus on integrated qualitative and quantitative approaches to develop Earth-system-based transformation pathways for sustainable development.

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