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Programme Overview
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Sunday, February 27, 2000
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Check-in GEP Pavillion, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
Welcome
Opening of the Idea Market
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Monday, February 28, 2000
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Opening Ceremony
Plenary Sessions
Dialogue Sessions
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Tuesday, February 29, 2000
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Mutual Learning Sessions at various locations
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Plenary Sessions
Award
Closing Ceremony
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Sunday, February 27, 2000
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Check-in GEP-Pavillion, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
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| 07.00 pm – 08.00 pm |
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Welcome Gathering
Set up for the Idea Market (see page 20 for detailed list)
Idea Market
The idea market will be an open forum. Its function is to intensify the
networking process within the transdisciplinary community. Participants will
present their personal ideas of transdisciplinarity in the form of posters,
exhibitions, videos, etc.
The idea market will be open throughout the conference.
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Opening, Plenary Sessions, Idea Market, Dialogue Sessions
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Monday, February 28, 2000
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| 09.00 am
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Chair:
Prof. Hans R. Thierstein, President of the Expert Group Swiss Priority
Programme Environment, Zurich
Opening Ceremony
Prof. Olaf Kübler, President of the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, Zurich
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A New Contract between Society and Science
Dr. Charles Kleiber, State Secretary for Science, Berne
What kind of science does our world need today and tomorrow?
Prof. Rita Colwell, Director US National Science Foundation, Arlington,
Virginia/ USAStrategies of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to
meet the challenges ofthe 21st century, and in particular, inter- and
transdisciplinary research
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Coffee Break and Idea Market |
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Demands of Society on Science: Panel
Martine Brunschwig Graf, Directeur de l‘Education, Geneva
Dr. Tony Kaiser , Chief Technology Officer, ABB ALSTOM
Power Ltd, Brussels
Dr. Claude Martin, Director General WWF, Geneva
Thomas von Waldkirch, Director Technopark, Zurich
Moderator: Sybille Oetliker, Cash, Zurich
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The Potential of Transdisciplinarity
Prof. Michael Gibbons, Secretary General of the Association of
CommonwealthUniversities, London, United Kingdom and
Prof. Helga Nowotny, Chair of Philosophy and Social Studies of Science,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
New forms of knowledge production to cope with the crucial demands
of society
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Buffet Lunch and Idea Market |
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| 02.30 pm |
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Dialogue Sessions
Dialogue sessions document and reflect on actual experiences of
transdisciplinarity,with emphasis on methodology at national
and international levels.Chairs will emphasize active participation in a
range of models, from a shortpresentation-discussion format
to open discussion of common goals or questions.
Participants are expected to read assigned contributions in advance
to facilitate agenuine and interactive dialogue (see page 20).
There will be at least 12 mainly parallel dialogue sessions:
Fundamentals
D01 Theory – Chair Dr. Basarab Nicolescu email
D02 Implementation - Chair Prof. Julie Thompson Klein email
D03 Scientific Quality and Evaluation – Chair Dr. Philipp W. Balsiger email
Dynamics
D04 Complex Systems and Team Processes –
Chair Marie Céline Loibl email
D05 Communication and Participation – Chair Prof. Pieter Leroy email
D06 Risks and Uncertainties – Chair M.A. Kirsten Hollaender email
D07 Intercultural Learning – Chair Sunita Kapila email
D08 Research Programmes – Chair Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz email
Fields
D09 Energy – Chair Britt Marie Bertilsson email
D10 Transport and Engineering – Chair Prof. Hansjürg Mey email
D11 Landscape Development – Chair Dr. Michel Roux email
D12 Climate and Water – Chair Prof. Jan-Eric Sundgren email
(further details see pages 14 – 20)
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Coffee Break and Idea Market
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Dialogue Sessions continue
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Idea Market |
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Reception
Dinner and Cultural Programme
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Mutual Learning Sessions
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Tuesday, February 29, 2000
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Mutual learning sessions involve partners from outside academia. They
offer theopportunity to experience joint
knowledge production involving science, technology and society.
Most of the sessions will start from an actual, real world problem from
industry, business, administration or asubstantial public concern. A lively, open discourse is aspired providing problem definitions and
discussing examplesof transdisciplinary processes.
The organizers will provide a frame for the daily programme including
assigned contributions (see page 21) in orderto bring in views from
outside the organizers field and from outside Switzerland.
The mutual learning sessions take place in locations provided by partner
organizations in a reachable distance from
Zurich and last the whole Tuesday.
There will be up to 20 parallel mutual learning sessions:
Fields
Industry and Services
M01 Technology Sharing – ABB Corporate Research Ltd, Baden-Dättwil,
Alain Bill email
M02 Gene-Seeds – Novartis Ltd, Basel, Hans Peter Bernhard email
M03 Sustainable Banking – Bank, Zurich, Olaf Weber email
M04 Nutrition – Migros, Zurich, Markus Ulrich
M05 Sustainable Tourism – Alpenregion Brienz Meiringen Hasliberg,
Madeleine Hirsch/Ueli Stalder
M06 Health Costs and Benefits – Institute Dialog Ethik, Zurich,
Ruth Baumann-Hölzle
Organizing Learning
M07 Education – Postgrade Formation in Telecommunication, Berne,
Zurich and www, Federico Flückiger
M08 Secondary Education – Bildungszentrum Uster, Peter Troxler
M09 Applying Sciences – HTA Burgdorf School of Engineering, Renata Mathys
M10 Medical Knowledge – University Hospital, Zurich, Johann Steurer
Regional Development
M11 Urban Quality – City of Zurich, Philipp Klaus
M12 Local Agenda 21 – Forum 21 of Illnau-Effretikon, Karin Marti
M13 Landscape Development – Swiss Center for Agricultural
Extension (LBL), Wülflingen, Michel Roux email
M14 Solid Waste – City of Winterthur, Wiebke Güldenzoph
M15 Radioactive Waste – NAGRA, Greenpeace etc., Zurich,
Thomas Flüeler
M16 Contaminated Soil – Municipality of Dornach, Joachim Sell /
Stefan Hesske
Dynamics
M17 Participation – Technology Assessment Programme of the Swiss
Science Council, Zurich, Danielle Bütschi
M18 Intercultural Learning – Swiss Commission for Research Partnership
with Developing Countries, Zurich,
Jon-Andri Lys
Fundamentals
M19 Quality Criteria – Collegium Helveticum, Zurich, Martina Weiss
M20 Theory and Implementation – Forum on Transdisciplinary Research, Rapperswil, Philipp W. Balsiger email / Julie Thompson Klein email
–> Inquiries concerning Mutual Learning Sessions please contact
Niels Jungbluth (jungbluth@uns.umnw.ethz.ch)
(further details see page Contributions)
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Plenary Sessions
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Wednesday, March 1, 2000
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Chair:
Prof. Julie Thompson Klein, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Reflections on the Dialogue- and Mutual Learning Sessions and the
Idea Market: Panel
Britt Marie Bertilsson, The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental
Research MISTRA, Stockholm, Sweden
Dr. Alain Bill, ABB Corporate Research
Kirsten Hollaender, M.A., Research Institute for Sociology, University of
Cologne, Germany
Prof. Pieter Leroy, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Moderator: Prof. Julie Thompson Klein
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The Future of Science
Prof. Richard Ernst, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1991
Prof. Uwe Schneidewind, Institute for Business Administration,
University ofOldenburg, Germany
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Coffee Break and Idea Market
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Learning from the Conference
Prof. Roland Scholz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich,
and University ofZurich, Organizing Committee of the Conference
Prof. David Marks, Center for Environmental Initiatives, Coordinator
Alliance forGlobal Sustainability (AGS), Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, USA
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Buffet Lunch and Idea Market
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Chair: Baldur Eliasson, ABB Corporate Research Ltd, Baden-Dättwil
Impacts on Science Management and Science Policy
Rainer Gerold, Director of Life Sciences and Quality of Life,
Commission of theEuropean Communities, Brussels
Sunita Kapila, International Development Research Centre IDRC
(Canada),Branch Office Nairobi, Kenya
Prof. Hansjürg Mey, President the Swiss Federal Commission
forUniversities of Applied Sciences, Berne
Prof. Jan Eric Sundgren, President of Chalmer University, Göteborg, Sweden
Moderator: Rolf Wespe, Head of information services, SAFEL Swiss
Agency for theEnvironment, Forests and Landscape, Berne
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Swiss Transdisciplinarity Award:
Ceremony
Prof. Heidi Diggelmann, President of the Swiss National Science
Foundation, Berne
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Conclusions of the Conference
Dr. Christian Smoliner, Federal Ministry of Science and Transport, Vienna
Dr. Rudolf Häberli, Director of the Swiss Priority Programme Environment,
Conference Chairman, Berne
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Farewell Apéro |
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Swiss Transdisciplinarity Award
The goals of the Swiss Transdisciplinarity Award are to honour exemplary
practices of transdisciplinary research, topromote transdisciplinarity
among the scientific community and thus, to point the way to the future. Three prizes– sponsored by the Gebert Rüf Foundation – will be
awarded. The total amount of 50'000.– SFr. is to be invested in
transdisciplinary activities. The selection criteria will take into account the
scientific standard of the contributions,their innovative character
in terms of a transdisciplinary approach, their contribution to a
sustainable solution of aparticular problem, and most of all their
significance for the future of transdisciplinarity.All accepted
contributions of the Transdisciplinarity Conference are eligible in the
competition except those issuedby members of the Conference Board.
Jury of the Swiss Transdisciplinarity Award
Prof. Heidi Diggelmann, President of the Swiss National Science
Foundation, Berne (Chair)
PD Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
Prof. Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz, Interdisciplinary Centre for General
Ecology, University of Berne
Prof. Verena Meyer, Gebert Rüf Foundation
Dr. Johannes R. Randegger, Novartis Services Ltd, Basel
Dr. Christian Smoliner, Federal Ministry of Science and Transport,
Vienna, Austria
Gebert Rüf Foundation
Founded in 1997 by the Swiss entrepreneur Heinrich Gebert the
Gebert Rüf Foundation helps to set up new andpromising partnerships
between the scientific community and the social and economic world.
Projects sponsored by the Gebert Rüf Foundation prove to have a high
quality in interdisciplinarity, science transferand impact.
www.grstiftung.ch
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