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Green Meetings & Green Events

The Global Transdisciplinarity Conference focusses on coping with the current poly crisis, of which climate change, refugee crises, the Corona pandemic, and recent wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are symptomatic.

Following the 1st Global Transdisciplinarity Conference in fall 2021 the 2nd Global Transdisciplinarity Conference will be held in June 2024 at our partner institution Cappadocia University at its scenic location in Mustafapaşa, central Anatolia. An additional location will be Krems with the focus on “Floods: their drivers and complex consequences” as well as “Multi-level interventions in multi-level Living Labs”

Track ”Floods: their drivers and complex consequences”

Floods are a natural landscape-shaping force. However, as a result of environmental degradation, river regulation, climate change, and other factors such as deforestation that affect the water cycle, floods are occurring more frequently and are causing devastating damage not only to natural ecosystems and biodiversity, but also on human lives and property. The multiple use of water bodies for water management including energy production, river regulation and infrastructure construction for safety reasons, water use for agriculture and the discharge of wastewater containing toxic substances also from industry and waste, etc. pose major challenges to the quality of a water body as drinking water as well as to well-functioning ecological river ecosystems. In our interdisciplinary expert panel, we will discuss floods as a poly-crisis from different perspectives of water management and water protection, try to identify the main drivers for flood disasters and jointly develop effective inter- and transdisciplinary strategies for flood management.

Track “Multi-level interventions in multi-level Living Labs”

The Track “Living Labs” is aiming to discuss and promote the establishment of Living Labs as an appropriate participatory action research method for co-developing sustainable solutions between scientists and other societal actors, in the context of the current poly crises humanity is confronted with. The Track will provide a platform for conceptualizing and defining Living Labs, for exchanging experiences and best practice examples, and for addressing challenges and opportunities, with a focus on Living Labs as collaborations of universities with the city they are located in. In these collaborations universities serve as innovation hubs, incubators and test-beds for solutions that can be upscaled to the city level and beyond.