Date & Time: October 28, 2025, 10:00-12:00 GMT
Location: Online, Open to all
Sign-up (before 10 October, 2025): 
https://doit.medfarm.uu.se/bin/kurt3/kurt/8889315

Description: The inaugural workshop of the Recognising the Contributions of Integration and Integration Experts Project (Value Project) of the Integration Experts and Expertise Working Group is open to everyone in the ITD community who is interested in exploring how the contributions of integration and integration experts could be recognised and valued. Areas to be explored in first workshop:

• What are the current challenges in recognising the contributions of integration and integration experts?
• In which settings would more developed frameworks for assessing and articulating these contributions be most beneficial?
• What other complex assessment practices or models could inspire new frameworks in this area?
• What essential qualities should a conceptual piece from the IEE Value Project include to guide future work of the project?

Report and recording: On 28 October 2025, 18 participants from across Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia joined an online workshop to kick off the ITD Value Project, a project of the Integration Experts and Expertise working group of the ITD Alliance. Facilitated by Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Giedre Kligyte, and Helena Grönqvist, the session focused on a big question: how do we make integration expertise visible and valued? The group explored challenges like the lack of understanding of integration work, missing career paths, and resourcing gaps, and brainstormed opportunities, from creating clearer integrator role profiles to different modes of dialogue and advocacy. Next steps include drafting a roadmap, and progressing a range of ‘quick wins’, such as mapping the demand for integration, and developing integrator personas and case study examples. Sub-groups will take these ideas forward into 2026. View the recording.

Date & Time: See schedule for your time zone on the General Assemblies 2025 page.
Location: Online, Open to members

There were two General Assemblies in 2025, each with two online meetings to accommodate global time zones. The first on 26 and 27 June discussed changes and clarifications to the bylaws and procedures associated with the bylaws, followed by online voting. The second on 9 and 10 October focused on financial and other reporting, as well as elections to the Leadership Board. There will be a two week online voting period following each set of meetings. Agendas will be sent to members at least two weeks before the meetings. The exact meeting times and voting dates are available at: https://itd-alliance.org/general-assemblies-2025/. Recordings and presentation slides are available on the website for each meeting.

Dates & Times:
10 Sep 2025, 16:00-18:00 CET (7:00-9:00 Pacific Time) and
18 Sep 2025, 8:00-10:00 CET (16:00-18:00 Eastern Australia Time)
Location: Online, Open to all
Sign-up (before 4 Sep): https://doit.medfarm.uu.se/bin/kurt3/kurt/8888195

Description: The new Organizational Change for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD) Working Group is focused on exchanging experiences of inter- and transdisciplinarity work within the working group community. They also aim to particularly reach out to ITD Alliance’s institutional members. These activities should result in creating a shared broad inventory of topical current organizational challenges related to the promotion of organisational change for inter- and transdisciplinarity. 

Report, Recordings and Presentation: In the inaugural workshops held 10 and 18 September 2025, the Organizational Change for ITD Working Group discussed the future directions, affirmative issues and key challenges related to promoting organizational change for inter- and transdisciplinarity. The participants were actively involved in co-creating plans for the future activities of the Working Group. The planning work will now be continued by the Core Group. Further events are to be announced based on these plans. 12 people participated in both the first inaugural workshop and in the second inaugural workshop. View recordings and presentation slides on the Organizational Change for ITD Working Group web page.

Date & Time: 31 July 2025, 12:30-2pm AEST (Canberra), 12-1.30pm (Adelaide), 2.30-4pm (Fiji and New Zealand)
Location: Online, Open to all
Register at Humanitix

Description: As the leadership of universities and related organisations increasingly embraces transdisciplinarity in research and teaching as a way of tackling complex societal and environmental problems, what does it mean for those on the ground who are tasked with introducing transdisciplinary approaches? Adelaide University in Australia (which is newly established from an amalgamation of the University of South Australia and the University of Adelaide) and Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University of New Zealand are leading institutions addressing these challenges. Allan O’Connor and Allanah Ryan are heading up the change processes and have rich experience to share. They will make brief scene-setting presentations about their university’s context and approach to transdisciplinarity, what their institutions “have going for them,” and the main challenges, along with how they are addressing them. They will then engage in a dialogue, which will be broadened out to include the audience.

Moderation will be by Gabriele Bammer, President of the Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD Alliance). This hour-long webinar will be followed by a 30-minute open discussion – a Talanoa – where you can connect with others across Oceania who are passionate about inter- and transdisciplinarity.

Download the flyer for details and speaker biographies.
A recording of the webinar will be available from the ITD Alliance Oceania Regional Network web page after the event.

The first on 26 and 27 June discussed changes and clarifications to the bylaws and procedures associated with the bylaws, followed by online voting. See details on the 26 and 27 June 2025 (Bylaws) web page.

Date & Time: 24 June 2025 at 5 p.m. CET
Location: Online, Open to all, Join on Zoom

Description: The Quality & Rigour Project of the ITD Alliance Toolkits & Methods Working Group sponsors a series of sessions to offer an open platform for dialogue and reflection on the quality and scientific rigour of ITD methods. The next session, on 24 June 2025 at 5 p.m. CET, will be hosted by Christine Hobelsberger & Gregor Schmidt of the team knowledge transfer for regional learning processes of InNoWest. They will introduce the ‘ttt – testing transdisciplinary tools’ format and share and discuss their experiences with it. The focus will be on two questions in particular:

• And how can providers of such formats themselves ensure quality and rigour?
• (How) can formats such as ‘ttt – testing transdisciplinary tools’ contribute to more quality and rigour in ITD research?

Date & Time: May 1, 2025, from 1:00pm – 2:30pm AEST, Sydney. (convert to your time zone)
Location: Online, Open to all
Register at Humanitix (Zoom link sent to registered participants)

Description: Join us online on Thursday, May 1, 2025 at 1:00pm AEST, Sydney, to gain insight on developing transdisiciplinary capacity in universities.

While a focus on transdisciplinary approaches for tackling complex social and environmental problems is well established in specialised postgraduate programs, universities are becoming increasingly interested in embedding transdisciplinary capabilities at the undergraduate level. The University of Technology Sydney and The Australian National University are pioneers of such university-wide efforts in Australia. In this session, two key people from these institutions, Giedre Kligyte and Chris Browne, will share their experiences of implementing transdisciplinary learning at scale.

Giedre and Chris will make brief scene-setting presentations and then engage in a dialogue, which will then be broadened out to include the audience. Moderation will be by Gabriele Bammer, President of the Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD Alliance).

This hour-long webinar will be followed by a 30-minute open discussion – a Talanoa – where you can connect with others across Oceania who are passionate about inter- and transdisciplinarity.

For speaker biographies and all details, download the webinar flyer.

Report & Video: The Oceania Regional Network hosted a very successful webinar, which featured short presentations from, and then a dialogue between Giedre Kligyte (University of Technology Sydney) and Chris Browne (The Australian National University). They asked each other insightful questions that really set the tone for the audience-led discussion that followed. Universities are becoming increasingly interested in embedding transdisciplinary capabilities at the undergraduate level and the two universities featured are pioneers of such university-wide efforts in Australia, with the speakers leading those initiatives in their institutions. The session concluded with a Talanoa (open discussion), which gave the audience a chance to speak and it was great to hear the diverse interests and perspectives. View the video on the Oceania Regional Network web page.

Date & Time: April 8, 2025, from 11:00am – 12:00pm BST, London & WAT, Lagos. (convert to your time zone)
Location: Online, Open to all
Join online: Zoom https://anu.zoom.us/j/4887243168?pwd=amFlYVQyRXp0dFJzT244OXNVSnErUT09

Description: Join us online on Tuesday, April 8 at 11am BST, London & WAT, Lagos for an insightful webinar exploring the critical role of transdisciplinary collaborations in addressing complex challenges in research environments. This session will provide clarity on key terms: interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and cross-disciplinary, and their application in collaborative research. Participants will gain practical insight into the skills required to undertake these forms of boundary-crossing collaboration. Beginners and other African Scholars with a stake in cross disciplinary research are particularly encouraged to join.

Speaker presentations will be followed by discussion with participants. Speakers:

• Dr. Umar Ibrahim of the Federal University Dutse, Nigeria, ITD Alliance Leadership Board member
• Prof. Gabriele Bammer of Australian National University, ITD Alliance President

For speaker biographies and further details view the webinar flyer.

Report: At this webinar, held online on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, Umar Ibrahim presented key terms: interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and mono-disciplinary, and their application in collaborative research. Gabriele Bammer described the skills required to undertake these forms of boundary-crossing collaboration. The target audience was beginners and other African scholars with a stake in cross-disciplinary research. There were 14 participants, who joined the discussion after the presentations.

View the video: https://youtu.be/sc5HFUu4NnI
View the presentation slides: Umar Ibrahim presentation, Gabriele Bammer presentation

Date & Time: February 26, 2025, from 10.30am – 12.00pm IST (India). (convert to your time zone)
Location: Online, Open to all
Join: https://iitmandi.webex.com/iitmandi/j.php?MTID=m02804bcf930236535eb8e543deb3c3dd
Register (pre-register before 24 February to receive a calendar invite): https://forms.gle/wmV7hMmUn4qVkr5w6

Description: On 26 February 2025 (10:30 AM – 12:00 PM), a dialogue on “Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability” will be organized by the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) in collaboration with the Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD Alliance). Gabriele Bammer from the Australian National University and President, ITD Alliance and Sharachchandra Lele, Distinguished Fellow in Environmental Policy and Governance at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and The Environment (ATREE), will be the speakers in the online event, moderated by Seema Purushothaman, President, INSEE. This dialogue is an effort by INSEE and the ITD Alliance to create platforms for deliberating knowledge pathways towards imagining and ushering in sustainable societies. For more information and speaker biographies, see: https://ecoinsee.org/news/45c48cce2e2d7fbdea1afc51c7c6ad26

Report & Video: An online dialogue on “Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability” was co-hosted by the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) and Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD- Alliance) on 26 February 2025. Gabriele Bammer, Professor, Australian National University and Sharachchandra Lele, Distinguished Fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) were the speakers at the event. The deliberation touched upon the concept of transdisciplinary–related theory, methods and practice. The dialogue elaborated on how transdisciplinary work aims at bridging the gap between knowledge and action and the co-production of knowledge towards sustainability. The advantage of starting a discipline like transdisciplinary is that it gives an opportunity to move forward together across the globe, and it doesn’t have to be the ideas developed in the north. The event had a vibrant participation from the audience of 65 individuals, who engaged in thought-provoking discussion. View the video: https://youtu.be/–sRCAKkb88

A collaboration with the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE).

Date & Time: February 10, 2025, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM CET. (convert to your time zone)
Location: Online, Open to all, Register to receive link
Registration: Register online by January 24: https://cloud.scnat.ch/drive/d/s/112Lt4OHbb7vWCBcThJtuGeJ5N1sGseU/lOEVD8rhuL21efxss04UGHc5U-E6XocE-_L-A_eK61ws

Description: In this session, the Quality and Rigour Project within the Toolkits & Methods working group invites participants to explore which quality and rigor criteria from traditional research methods can be applied to ITD methods, which may not be applicable, and which might require adaptation. Additionally, we will consider whether entirely new quality criteria are needed for ITD methods, beyond those used for traditional research methods. We will conclude with a discussion on the project’s next steps.

A report on the event will be posted here when available.

Date & Time: February 5, 2025, 1500h – 1630h, CET (GMT +1hr). (convert to your time zone)
Location: Online, Open to all
Registration: Email Minea Mader (minea.maeder@scnat.ch) to receive calendar invite and meeting link

Description: During the ITD Conference 2024 in Utrecht participants talked about the relevance of transformative change for ITD research.

Interested members would like to further these exchanges by inviting you to an informal discussion on ITD and the topic of transformative change on February 5th 2025 (15h – 16h30 GMT+1). At the end, we would like to talk about the relevance and general interest in creating an ITD Alliance working group specifically dedicated to these issues. What are you particularly interested when it comes to transformative change? What are topics you are passionate about in this thematic area? What would be your needs for this potential working group and what would you like to contribute? Who do you think would be interested in taking part? (actors from academia, policy, practice, etc.)

Agenda

• 15h Welcome and ice-breaker
• 15h10 – 16h Brief input from Sierra Deutsch on transformative change, ITD, and justice, followed by discussion
• 16h – 16h30 Discuss working group creation
• 16h30 Closing

Event Report: On 5 February 2025 an online networking and exchange meeting took place to explore potential interest in forming a working group on the topic of transformative change & justice within the Global Alliance for ITD. Participants explored common interests and found that the working group would be complementary to existing working groups. While there was great interest and motivation to continue the exchange, it was decided to currently not move forward with establishing a formal working group given lack of resources at this point in time. However, interested participants are encouraged to set up their own one-time webinar/coffee break/event and use this network as a resource moving forward.

Documentation of the meeting(s) as well as a list of interested participants who could be contacted for any future events or ideas for re-activating the idea of a working group can be found here. In case of interest, please add your name in the list at the bottom of the document as well. The recordings of the two presentations given during the online meeting can be found here.

Date & Time: January 17, 2025, from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM CET. (convert to your time zone)
Location: Online, Open to all, Register to receive link
Registration: Register online by January 12: https://cloud.scnat.ch/drive/d/s/11IyKG6r2t9JkhDri2B4TmiAUHsTMwFp/9GEEofl2MIgvBNUZZA_D5kL7Jociwcek-Q7JAvlea5As
Can’t attend but want to meet others? Please register anyway to receive instructions for engaging with our Miro board.

Description: The ITD-Alliance Working Group on Toolkits & Methods will start the new year of 2025 with an online Meet & Greet event for toolkit and method enthusiasts. Please join us, whether you are already a member of the WG or simply curious about the fun we’re having.

History: Since 2021 the Working Group on Toolkits & Methods gathers experts around the joint interest to advance their respective fields with toolkits that support research collaborations beyond disciplines. We adopt a pluralistic approach towards the discussion of tools and methods for projects that may be framed as cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, collaborative, integrative and the like. You can find information about our ongoing projects and publications here: https://itd-alliance.org/working-groups/toolkits_methods/

The group is open to everyone with experience in developing methods and tools, as well as those with a major interest in toolkit development and reflection on the use of methods & toolkits. 

Event: For our Meet & Greet event on January 17, 2025, we will gather virtually—asynchronously on Miro and synchronously on Zoom for an hour. The event will include a brief, informal presentation; space to share ideas and interests from our (new, potential, or founding) members; and updates on ongoing projects. We will conclude by deciding ‘next steps to action.’

You are warmly invited to join us for this event, and we’re excited to hear about the topics and ideas you bring! We’re looking forward to meeting you!

A report on the event will be posted here when available.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 14 November and Thursday, 15 November (2 meetings to cover all time zones). Sessions will be one hour.
Location: Online – Join us in the Zoom meeting room
Description: Members and those interested in joining the ITD Alliance are invited to join us to make new connections and exchange ideas in a lightly structured online conversation.

Report: Online networking events, Report by Gabriele Bammer [from 25 November 2024 News Bulletin]

The energy and enthusiasm of the face-to-face networking event in Utrecht was mirrored – at a much smaller scale – by the 4 attendees at one online event. We savoured the opportunity to get to know each other better and to explore the benefits of small events, discussing how we might continue such opportunities in future. We also explored how we could promote intersections with like-minded communities, especially organising joint events. We realised that the ITD Alliance news bulletin is a vehicle through which individuals or small groups can organise opportunities to connect with like-minded others, and that this can be one-off or occasional, rather than as an on-going commitment. We also discussed the needs of practitioners and how the ITD Alliance can expand its activities to also provide a supportive home for them.

Date & Time: Friday, 8 November, 9am – 1:30pm (Utrecht, The Netherlands time)
Location: At the ITD24 conference in Utrecht, The Netherlands, Het Vriendenplein meeting room
Description: Members and those interested in joining the ITD Alliance are invited to make new connections and exchange ideas in a semi-structured morning of fun and thought-provoking networking activities.

Report: ITD24 Networking and Member Exchange Session, Report by session facilitators, Helena Guimarães and Theres Paulsen [from 25 November 2024 News Bulletin]

This session provided a forum for members and other attendees to discuss ideas and activities, with a focus on how the ITD Alliance, as an alliance of mostly volunteers, could provide a vehicle for members in undertaking activities they are passionate about. Attendance was estimated at 40-50. In the first half of the session, participants formed pairs or small groups with people they did not know to meet and share ideas. Ideas for new working groups were proposed covering transformative justice (examining change and power balance) and encouraging organizational change within institutions to support ITD. Other ideas discussed included practitioner engagement, developing local networks, advice on access to funding, learning from other alliances, ideas for education and curriculum development, building a repository of case studies, and institutionalising ITD.

The second part of the session focused on the three established working groups – Early Career Researchers, Toolkits and Methods, Integration Experts and Expertise – as well as providing opportunities to meet for those interested in the newly proposed working groups and an already-planned working group on education and training. Participants were also encouraged to submit any new ideas via the ITD Alliance Ideas Board on the website.

Overall, the session was full of positive energy. We look forward to seeing how the ideas proposed at the networking meeting develop!

Date & Time: Friday, 7 November, 12:00 – 1:30 pm (Sydney, Australia time)
Location: Online
Description: Michael O’Rourke, Michigan State University, USA will present, followed by discussion. Crossdisciplinary research is widely regarded as necessary for addressing complex, socio-environmental challenges, and integration is widely regarded as necessary for the successful conduct of crossdisciplinary research. Although crossdisciplinary integration has been discussed since at least the 1960s across a range of contexts, including philosophy of science, organizational psychology, and interdisciplinary studies, there is little consensus about what it is or how you pursue it. Discussions of integration in the literature tend to be either very abstract or very specific – there are not a lot of examples of analysis that split the difference. Some argue that this is to be expected, since integration is highly contextual and not something that can be modelled generally, but I believe this point of view is mistaken. In this talk, I discuss developments involving an input-process-output (IPO) model of integration that demonstrate its potential to split the difference. I present an IPO-based conceptualization of integration that focuses on integrative process, highlighting the value of thinking about this in terms of integrative pathways and integrative mechanisms. I then discuss how this way of thinking about integration can be operationalized to facilitate crossdisciplinary integration in research on complex problems.

Report & Video: View the video and brief report on the Oceania Regional Network web page.