SDG Africa Summit 2021 Thematic Track 4
SDG Africa Summit 2021 Thematic Track 4
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Welcome
Welcome to the dedicated website for Thematic Track 4: Transdisciplinarity and Engaged Scholarship. Here you'll find the resources and recordings from the workshops which ran during June and July 2021, in the lead up to the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa Summit (13-15 September 2021).
These events are hosted by the University of Cape Town, in partnership with three university networks: the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) and the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN).
Why Transdisciplinarity and Engaged Scholarship?
Why Transdisciplinarity and Engaged Scholarship?
Achieving the SDGs and Agenda 2063 across Africa requires new ways of generating and acting on knowledge that recognises the complex, interconnected nature of development and environmental challenges, whilst acknowledging varying perspectives, values and interests amongst actors and groupings within society.
Transdisciplinary (TD) knowledge co-production and co-design is a promising approach to facilitate this. Yet, considerable challenges and barriers to working in such ways persist. This thematic track draws on experiences from existing TD initiatives to characterize the scholarly, institutional, and practical challenges and identify key levers to pave a way forward for successful TD research across Africa in pursuit of meeting the SDGs and Agenda 2063.
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