BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.5//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:67@charm-eu.eu DTSTART:20250624T080000Z DTEND:20250624T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260707T131222Z URL:https://charm-eu.eu/news-events/events/charm-eu-international-conferen ce-bridging-minds-shaping-futures-transdisciplinarity-in-research/ SUMMARY:CHARM-EU International Conference "Bridging minds\, Shaping futures : Transdisciplinarity in research” DESCRIPTION:As part of CHARM-EU’s Doctoral researcher summer school 2025\ , the University of Montpellier is proud to host the Bridging minds\, shap ing futures:  transdisciplinary in research conference\, a series of talk s by nine inspiring speakers from across the CHARM-EU universities allianc e.\n\nBringing together individuals and knowledge\, connecting communities \, and merging ways of thinking... Transdisciplinary research is key to ad dressing the complex and interconnected challenges affecting global health \, environment\, food systems and government. To provide sustainable and i mpactful solutions\, we must connect people\, knowledge and ideas beyond g eographical and academic boundaries in collaboration with communities\, bu siness and government.\n\nInspired by the CHARM-EU doctoral researcher Sum mer school’s theme of Developing transdisciplinary practice to tackle co mplex challenges\, the conference will provide attendees with an overview of projects underway at universities within the CHARM-EU alliance\, with i nsight from researchers who place transdisciplinarity at the heart of thei r work. Specialising in digital humanities\, economics\, epidemiology\, hy drogeology\, law\, philosophy\, physics and medicine\, the speakers will i llustrate to doctoral candidates\, teaching staff\, and researchers how tr ansdisciplinarity can move research forward.\n\nMore info on University of Montpellier's website.\n\nRegistration essential to attend in person or o nline. Live (and replay) on the University of Montpellier's YouTube channe l.\n\n\nApply here to register\n\nConference programme:\n9.00 - Welcome Sp eech\nPhilippe Augé\, president of the University of Montpellier\n\n9.15 – 12.30 - Morning session\n\n 9.15 – 9.50 - Laura Hellsten\nThe Trans disciplinary Toolbox: what I learnt when doing ethnographic research in an interdisciplinary research project.\n\n\nAbstract:\n\n\nBuilding on the f indings from the fieldwork in an interdisciplinary research project\, and the transdisciplinary collaborations she has been helping to facilitate\, she will share best practices and speak about the skills and competences needed for transdisciplinary research. Expanding on Lawrence et. al (2022 ) descriptions of inter-\, multi- and trans- disciplinary research\, this lecture will give tools for how we can navigate towards getting the benefi ts of orientation knowledge\, system knowledge\, process knowledge and tra nsformational knowledge in our collaborations.\n\nBuilding on the findings from the fieldwork in an interdisciplinary research project\, and the tr ansdisciplinary collaborations she has been helping to facilitate\, she wi ll share best practices and speak about the skills and competences needed for transdisciplinary research. Expanding on Lawrence et. al (2022) descr iptions of inter-\, multi- and trans- disciplinary research\, this lecture will give tools for how we can navigate towards getting the benefits of o rientation knowledge\, system knowledge\, process knowledge and transforma tional knowledge in our collaborations.\n\n 9.50 – 10.25 - Mircea Sofon ea\nInterdisciplinarity is key in health crisis management: insights from Montpellier’s research for pandemic surveillance and control.\n\nAbstrac t:\n\n\nThe unprecedented outburst of the recent pandemic called for rapid and accurate quantitative assessments to best inform public health respon ses. This presentation will provide an overview of the research that have been carried out in Montpellier since early 2020 on the SARS-CoV-2 epidemi c in metropolitan France\, at the interface between virology\, evolutionar y biology\, public health\, and applied mathematics. More generally\, and in the light of five years’ hindsight\, the place of real-time quantitat ive interdisciplinary approaches during health crises will be discussed\, in terms of generating novel evidence\, supporting decision-making\, and c ontributing to society’s awareness and trust.\n\nThe unprecedented outbu rst of the recent pandemic called for rapid and accurate quantitative asse ssments to best inform public health responses. This presentation will pro vide an overview of the research that have been carried out in Montpellier since early 2020 on the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in metropolitan France\, at t he interface between virology\, evolutionary biology\, public health\, and applied mathematics. More generally\, and in the light of five years' hin dsight\, the place of real-time quantitative interdisciplinary approaches during health crises will be discussed\, in terms of generating novel evid ence\, supporting decision-making\, and contributing to society’s awaren ess and trust.\n\n 10.25 – 11.00 - Judit Mádl-Szőnyi\nFrom groundwate r flow to societal climate adaptation: a transdisciplinary journey.\n\nAbs tract:\n\n\nHydroclimatic extremes\, such as droughts and water surpluses\ , have profound impacts on vast regions\, populations\, and economies. Ens uring a reliable water supply for both humans and ecosystems presents a si gnificant challenge. Groundwater\, often overlooked\, plays a crucial role in balancing wet and dry periods. Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) is a tec hnique that stores excess water during rainy seasons for use during drough ts. The NaBa-MAR approach\, developed by the ELTE Hydrogeology Group\, was implemented in the ClimEx-PE project of the CHARM-EU universities. This p roject integrates local MAR methods with regional groundwater flow underst anding to mitigate extreme hydrological events. Efficient dissemination of this approach to decision-makers and the public is essential. The present ation will showcase the development of the NaBa-MAR concept\, its physical demonstration for educational purposes\, and its implementation possibili ties through a comprehensive campaign targeting societies and stakeholders .\n\nHydroclimatic extremes\, such as droughts and water surpluses\, have profound impacts on vast regions\, populations\, and economies. Ensuring a reliable water supply for both humans and ecosystems presents a significa nt challenge. Groundwater\, often overlooked\, plays a crucial role in bal ancing wet and dry periods. Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) is a technique that stores excess water during rainy seasons for use during droughts. The NaBa-MAR approach\, developed by the ELTE Hydrogeology Group\, was implem ented in the ClimEx-PE project of the CHARM-EU universities. This project integrates local MAR methods with regional groundwater flow understanding to mitigate extreme hydrological events. Efficient dissemination of this a pproach to decision-makers and the public is essential. The presentation w ill showcase the development of the NaBa-MAR concept\, its physical demons tration for educational purposes\, and its implementation possibilities th rough a comprehensive campaign targeting societies and stakeholders.\n\n 11.00 – 11.15 - Coffee break\n 11.15 – 11.50 - Mark Oelmann\nTransdis ciplinarity in water: chances\, challenges and best practices.\n\nAbstract :\n\n\nTransdisciplinarity is a noble goal. For many projects\, this trans disciplinary approach is a basic prerequisite that the most diverse perspe ctives have actually been incorporated. This is the only way to ensure tha t implementation of results can be successful. At the same time\, the resu lts of the various disciplines should flow into one another. If they do no t\, the researchers are not pulling in the same direction. But aren’t th ey wasting a lot of time along the way? After all\, the aim of a scientist is to publish papers. And to do so for their own discipline…. Can we ge t out of this dilemma?\n\nTransdisciplinarity is a noble goal. For many pr ojects\, this transdisciplinary approach is a basic prerequisite that the most diverse perspectives have actually been incorporated. This is the onl y way to ensure that implementation of results can be successful. At the s ame time\, the results of the various disciplines should flow into one ano ther. If they do not\, the researchers are not pulling in the same directi on. But aren't they wasting a lot of time along the way? After all\, the a im of a scientist is to publish papers. And to do so for their own discipl ine…. Can we get out of this dilemma?\n\n 11.50 – 12.25 - Quique Bass at\nGlobal health in a nutshell: issues and threats.\n\nAbstract:\n\n\nWe live in a world of contrasts. Your birthplace will significantly determine your chances of surviving and thriving\, whether you are born healthy or sick. In this talk\, some of these health inequities will be examined\, as well as some of the current trends in global health\, including the threa t that infectious diseases still pose to health globally. This will be ana lysed in the context of a changing planet\, with all the uncertainties eme rging from the climatic crisis\, that unknown to many\, is going to affect the health of all\, but most significantly that of children being born in the poorest areas of the world.\n\nWe live in a world of contrasts. Your birthplace will significantly determine your chances of surviving and thri ving\, whether you are born healthy or sick. In this talk\, some of these health inequities will be examined\, as well as some of the current trends in global health\, including the threat that infectious diseases still po se to health globally. This will be analysed in the context of a changing planet\, with all the uncertainties emerging from the climatic crisis\, th at unknown to many\, is going to affect the health of all\, but most signi ficantly that of children being born in the poorest areas of the world.\n\ n 12.25 – 12.55 - Panel discussion\nWith Ronald Österbacka\, Mircea So fonea\, Judit Mádl-Szőnyi\, Mark Oelmann and Quique Bassat.\n\n13.00 – 14.00 - Lunch break\n\n14.00 – 17.10 - Afternoon session\n\n 14.05 – 14.40 - Jennifer Edmond\nThe reality of imaginaries? Exploring the presen t and future of applied literary studies. \n\nAbstract:\n\n\nThe humaniti es fields have long been a conundrum when it comes to transdisiciplinarity . This presentation will look at the way in which literature seems to be emerging as a category of evidence within applied research without what o ne would expect as the natural parallel development of a transdisciplinary arm of literary studies.  It will ask questions about why this might be and what enablers might be needed to better integrate literary scholarshi p and its potential ‘users\,’ looking particularly at the context of t he current state of tension between culture and advancing knowledge techno logies such as AI.\n\nThe humanities fields have long been a conundrum whe n it comes to transdisiciplinarity. This presentation will look at the w ay in which literature seems to be emerging as a category of evidence with in applied research without what one would expect as the natural parallel development of a transdisciplinary arm of literary studies.  It will ask questions about why this might be and what enablers might be needed to be tter integrate literary scholarship and its potential 'users\,' looking pa rticularly at the context of the current state of tension between culture and advancing knowledge technologies such as AI.\n\n 14.40 – 15.15 - Is abel Feichtner\nReorienting law towards the common(s).\n\nAbstract:\n\n\nT his presentation will inquire into the role of law and lawyers in social e cological transformation. With reference to social movements against appro priation of and value extraction from the common\, it will present a conce pt of transformative law with three dimensions: first\, “counterlaw” t hat dismantles legal infrastructures of value extraction\; second\, transf ormative interpretation of (property) rights\; and third\, an organization law for the commons. The presentation will further seek to illustrate how transformative law may be furthered through transdisciplinary research wi thin and outside the university.\n\nThis presentation will inquire into th e role of law and lawyers in social ecological transformation. With refere nce to social movements against appropriation of and value extraction from the common\, it will present a concept of transformative law with three d imensions: first\, “counterlaw” that dismantles legal infrastructures of value extraction\; second\, transformative interpretation of (property) rights\; and third\, an organization law for the commons. The presentatio n will further seek to illustrate how transformative law may be furthered through transdisciplinary research within and outside the university.\n\n 15.15 – 15.30 - Coffee break\n 15.30 – 16.05 - Rasmus Slaattelid\nTr ansdisciplinarity as academic multiculturalism.\n\nAbstract:\n\n\nThis tal k will build on experiences from research and teaching in interdisciplinar y and transdisciplinarity contexts. The calls for transdiciplinarity give raise to legitimate worries about a watering-down of discipline-based foun dational education and research. “You must learn to crawl before you wal k” is the general idea\, or more generally\, in order to develop interdi sciplinary competencies\, a solid foundation built in a single discipline is needed. With some examples from current and completed transdisciplinary projects\, as well as from teaching experiences at the SVT\, this present ation will be the opportunity to sketch a translational approach to transd isciplinarity inspired by Collins and Evans’ concept of “interactional expertise”.\n\nThis talk will build on experiences from research and te aching in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinarity contexts. The calls fo r transdiciplinarity give raise to legitimate worries about a watering-dow n of discipline-based foundational education and research. “You must lea rn to crawl before you walk” is the general idea\, or more generally\, i n order to develop interdisciplinary competencies\, a solid foundation bui lt in a single discipline is needed. With some examples from current and c ompleted transdisciplinary projects\, as well as from teaching experiences at the SVT\, this presentation will be the opportunity to sketch a transl ational approach to transdisciplinarity inspired by Collins and Evans' con cept of "interactional expertise".\n\n 16.05 – 16:40 - Iris van der Tui n\nConnective thinking: on strategies for making connections between speci alized knowledges.\n\nAbstract:\n\n\nInspired by the French philosopher Mi chel Serres (1930-2019)\, this talk will reflect on institutional\, resear ch and educational experiences centered around the making of connections b etween specialized knowledges. It is common practice to argue that dynamic ally complex socio-environmental problems make such connecting more urgent than ever. But what about the university community and especially student s and early-career researchers today? What boundary-crossing knowledges\, skills and attitudes do they need? How can we teach such KSAs\; and why? A nd what can current university staff learn from the younger generation? Ce ntral to this presentation are some tested strategies for connective think ing for inter- and trans-disciplinarity.\n\nInspired by the French philoso pher Michel Serres (1930-2019)\, this talk will reflect on institutional\, research and educational experiences centered around the making of connec tions between specialized knowledges. It is common practice to argue that dynamically complex socio-environmental problems make such connecting more urgent than ever. But what about the university community and especially students and early-career researchers today? What boundary-crossing knowle dges\, skills and attitudes do they need? How can we teach such KSAs\; and why? And what can current university staff learn from the younger generat ion? Central to this presentation are some tested strategies for connectiv e thinking for inter- and trans-disciplinarity.\n\n 16.40 – 17.10 - Pan el Discussion\nWith Jennifer Edmond\, Isabel Feichtner\, Rasmus Slaattelid and Iris van der Tuin.\n\nSpeakers will include:\n\nQuique Bassat\n\n\nJe nnifer Edmond\n\n\nIsabel Feichtner\n\n\nLaura Hellsten\n\n\nJudit Mádl-S zőnyi\n\n\nMark Oelmann\n\n\nRasmus T. Slaatelid\n\n\nMircea Sofonea\n\n\ nIris van der Tuin\n\nQuique Bassat\nPediatrician\nDirector of the Barcelo na Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)\, Spain\nPhD medicine\nICREA res earch professor\n\n\n\nAs a pediatrician with special interest in infectio us disease epidemiology and public health\, Quique Bassat has attempted to combine his clinical work with biomedical research in those diseases that most affect the poor and vulnerable. His main area of interest has been t he prevention and treatment of malaria in childhood\, with a particular fo cus on understanding the clinical overlap of malaria and other common pedi atric conditions. His research has also covered the new paradigm of malari a eradication\, with a particular interest in evaluating the role of drugs in elimination strategies.\n\nHe has also conducted work on the descripti on of the epidemiology and etiology of respiratory infections (viral and b acterial)\, diarrheal diseases\, and neonatal infections in places such as Mozambique\, Morocco or Bhutan. Currently\, his main interests are relate d to the validation and implementation of minimally invasive autopsy (MIA) tools for the post-mortem investigation of causes of death in the develop ing world. He is also working on the validation and evaluation of low-cost technological devices that can be used to improve health in low-income co untries.\n\nSince 2024\, Quique Bassat is the director general of the Barc elona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)\, where he leads a team of ne arly 600 people committed to improving global health and promoting health equity. ISGlobal is the result of an innovative alliance between the “la Caixa” Foundation\, academic institutions and government bodies to cont ribute to the efforts undertaken by the international community to address health challenges in a globalized world.  This consolidated hub of excel lence in research takes its expertise from the world of health care\, with the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona and the Parc de Salut MAR\, and the aca demic sphere\, with the University of Barcelona and Pompeu Fabra Universit y.\n\nMore information about this speaker.\nJennifer Edmond\nAssociate pro fessor in Digital Humanities\nTrinity College Dublin\, Ireland\nPhD German ic languages and literatures\nCo-director of the Trinity Center for Digita l Humanities\n\n\n\nJennifer Edmond is an internationally recognized exper t in the application of arts and humanities insight to academic and societ al challenges arising at the intersection of information and communication technologies and culture. Her ambition is to utilize her position of lead ership in the digital humanities to significantly progress consolidation o f the emerging subfield of the critical digital humanities. Most of her pu blications are in open access.\n\nFormer president (2018-2022) of the boar d of directors of the pan-European research infrastructure for the arts an d humanities DARIAH-EU\, Jennifer Edmond has played a leadership role in n umerous strategic developments at national and institutional level. She ha s lent her expertise in the development of infrastructure to a wide variet y of initiatives and agencies\, from the food manufacturing industry throu gh to the Korean national maritime agency. She has coordinated many signif icant large-scale interdisciplinary research projects\, like CENDARI FP7 ( 2012-2016)\, a collaborative European digital archival infrastructure. She was also a partner in the related infrastructure cluster PARTENHOS\, whos e objective was to strengthen the cohesion of research across several rela ted fields associated with the humanities.\n\nKT4D is her most recent proj ect on AI\, big data and democracy. Led by Trinity College Dublin with a c onsortium of twelve partner organizations\, the Knowledge Technologies for Democracy (KT4D) project is investigating how democracy and civic partici pation can be better facilitated in the face of rapidly changing knowledge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and big data. This in o rder to enable actors across society to capitalize on the many benefits th ese technologies can bring in terms of community empowerment\, social inte gration\, individual agency\, and improved trust in both institutions and technological instruments while identifying and mitigating potential ethic al\, legal and cultural risks.\n\nMore information about this speaker.\nIs abel Feichtner\nProfessor of Public Law and International Economic Law\nJu lius-Maximilians University of Würzburg\, Germany\nDr. jur.\, LL.M (Cardo zo Law School)\nFounder of the Law Clinic Transformation Law\n\n\n\nIsabel Feichtner’s research work is grounded in practice. After her studies\, she was admitted to the New York Bar and worked for the New York office of the law firm Cravath\, Swaine &\; Moore as a corporate associate in th e securitization department for one year. Her research interests cover the distributive effects of law\, the democratization of society\, and the la w of the commons and commoning. She explores how institutional experiments \, such as the redesign of money or commons public partnerships\, can supp ort social-ecological transformation through democratization and commoning . Her expertise includes international law\, law and political economy\, i nternational law of natural resource extraction and the law of money and f inance.\n\nFrom 2022 to 2024\, Isabel Feichtner was fellow at The New Inst itute in Hamburg\, a residential fellowship program based in Hamburg and d esigned to nourish transformation through interdisciplinary and trans-sect oral collaboration\, where she chaired the program Reclaiming Common Wealt h: Towards a Law and Economy of Land Commons. This program explored pathwa ys\, processes\, and institutional designs for the generation and governan ce of land commons\, aiming to address discontents arising from institutio nal investments in land\, assess theories and concepts of property and val ue\, and establish a repository of the law and institutional design of lan d commons.\n\nIsabel Feichtner founded the Law Clinic Transformation Law\, both a teaching format and a forum for transdisciplinary research to expl ore how law may serve as a building block of a democratized political econ omy. She considers this project as an attempt to democratize law and legal education for social-ecological change\, strongly believing that transfor mative law must rethink and redesign the institutions and infrastructures at the core of political economy\, such as property\, money\, and the corp oration.\n\nMore information about this speaker.\nLaura Hellsten\nPost-doc researcher in theology\nÅbo Akademi University in Turku\, Finland \nPhD systematic theology\n\n\n\nIn her first post-doctoral position\, in the S tiftelsen Åbo Akademi foundation Centre of Excellence BACE\, Laura Hellst en studied the interaction of a team of physics\, chemistry and cell biolo gy researchers. The BACE collaboration centered on developing a platform f or bioelectronic activation that enables the control of cell signals and\, thereby\, the stimulation of cell functions. Hellsten did ethnographic fi eldwork with the research group investigating questions of ethics and scie nce communication.\n\nTo study science communication\, Hellsten further de veloped and led the research project Avtryck i det okända – Forcing th e Impossible (2020-2022)\, which created transdisciplinary collaborations between artists and researchers in the broader context of Åbo Akademi Uni versity.\n\nShe is principal investigator for the research project: Praxis of Social Imaginaries – a Theo-artistic Intervention for Transdiscipli nary Knowledge (2024-2028). This project brings together three different c omponents: theological understanding of social imaginaries\, cosmologies a nd polysemous reading practices\, artistic research methods of interventio n\, and indigenous or traditional ways of knowledge production including l istening and storytelling. Through creating nomadic and community based sy mposia where the project brings together people from across the Nordic reg ion\, with students and researchers from Åbo Akademi University and the g lobal south\, as well as artists and activists to transdisciplinary sympos ia and art based dialogue sessions\, it is aiming to cultivate practices o f wisdom\, ask bold questions\, and train critical inquiry into how coloni al patterns are influencing society and universities today.\n\nMore inform ation about this speaker.\nJudit Mádl-Szőnyi\nAssociated professor in Hy drogeology\nEötvös Loránd University in Budapest\, Hungary\nPhD\, DSc\, hydrogeology\nHead of József and Erzsébet Tóth Endowed Hydrogeology Ch air\nVice-dean for strategic and innovation affairs of ELTE Faculty of Sci ence\n\n\n\nJudit Mádl-Szőnyi specialises in hydrogeology\, focusing on regional groundwater flow systems and basin hydrogeology. With over three decades of teaching and research\, she has significantly contributed to un derstanding groundwater driving forces\, flow patterns\, and connections b etween groundwater flow systems and vegetation patterns. Her research grou p has gained international recognition for their work. She has developed g roundwater flow models for deep carbonate aquifers and promoted nature-bas ed managed aquifer recharge. Her interdisciplinary research also addresses climate change and impacts on groundwater\, adaptation options\, and sust ainable geothermal energy use. Her work has influenced academic circles an d contributed to practical applications in environmental management and po licy-making. Additionally\, she is actively involved in mentoring the next generation of hydrogeologists\, fostering a collaborative and innovative research environment.\n\nSince 2011\, she has chaired the Regional Groundw ater Flow Commission of the International Association of Hydrogeologists ( IAH) and led over fifteen R&\;D projects\, including prestigious Europe an projects. Her most notable award is the IAH Presidents’ Award.\n\nOve r the last decades\, through Shell\, MOL R&\;D\, and European innovatio n and development projects\, Judit Mádl-Szőnyi has adapted her knowledge for hydrocarbon exploration and energy transition goals\, including geoth ermal energy and related mineral resources. Judit Mádl-Szőnyi is the pri ncipal investigator of the Water4All project ClimEX-PE\, launched in 2024 among partner universities of the CHARM-EU alliance. This transdisciplinar y project involves scientists from various fields of natural science and r esearchers with strong socio-legal expertise while also paying special att ention to public engagement through communication and education.\n\nMore i nformation about this speaker.\nMark Oelmann\nProfessor of Water and Energ y Economics\nRuhr West University of Applied Sciences in Mülheim an der R uhr\, Germany\nPhD economics\n\n\n\nMark Oelmann is the director of the Ba chelor’s program BWL – Energy and Water Management at the Ruhr West Un iversity of Applied science. A diverse and enhanced collaboration – for example\, in dual studies – with companies and service providers in the energy and water sectors is at the very heart of this program. As a resear cher\, he is doing economic and political studies on water related issues and deals with the various forms of water pricing and is involved in digit alization topics\, such as machine learning or change management.\n\nMark Oelmann has been greatly contributing to a better integration of an econom ic perspective into water management thinking. Over 25 years in the water sector and other adjacent network sectors\, he worked in investment bankin g at Deutsche Bank\, as a managing consultant at the internationally renow ned Capgemini Consulting and a department head at the Scientific Institute for infrastructure and communication services (WIK) GmbH. He collaborates with the German federal ministry of Education and research (BMBF) on inte rnational water issues\, most recently on water and agriculture in Pakista n. A part of his work is focusing on developing and emerging countries: Al bania\, China\, Iran\, Indonesia\, Yemen\, Uganda…\n\nAs an economist an d a cultural anthropologist\, Mark Oelmann is the spokesperson for the Wat er Economics and Water Management interdisciplinary research focus at Ruhr West University of Applied science\, an interdisciplinary topic involving the Institute of Economics and the Institute for Civil engineering and in tending to foster a transformation process towards sustainable water manag ement. He is also co-partner and co-managing director of the consulting co mpany spun off from Ruhr West University of Applied science: MOcons. Stron gly committed to water issues\, he’s participating in a volunteer networ k supporting start-ups in building a more sustainable energy future.\n\nMo re information about this speaker.\nRasmus T. Slaatelid\nProfessor of Phil osophy of Science\nUniversity of Bergen\, Norway \nPhD philosophy\nHead of the Centre for the study of the sciences and the humanities (SVT)\n\n\n\n Rasmus Slaattelid is a Professor of Philosophy of Science and Head of the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities at the University of Bergen. This Centre teaches courses for PhD students on philosophical\, societal and ethical problems of science and technology\, and conducts re search on corresponding topics. Both the research and the teaching activit ies require dialogue across scientific disciplines and academic cultures\, but also across different forms of knowing and knowledge practices.\n\nRa smus T. Slaattelid’s main research is the translation between knowledge cultures. He is involved into few research groups at the University of Ber gen. His most recent research work is accessible online. Published in 2023 \, the book Translations of Responsibility : Innovation Governance in Thre e European Regions tells the story of how a Horizon 2020-funded research p roject translated responsible research and innovation (RRI) into practice\ , all the way from philosophy of technology to EU policy jargon\, to the p roject contract\, and finally into the real-life events in these regions. In 2020\, a group of European researchers got a European Union (EU) grant to do a project called TRANSFORM. The objective of this project was to int egrate the principle of responsible research and innovation (RRI) into the research and innovation policies of three European regions: Lombardy\, Br ussels\, and Catalonia. The book analyses the broader context of the desir e for better governance of technoscience and proposes to think of governan ce in technoscience\, rather than governance of technoscience. On the same subject\, the article Translating tools and indicators in territorial RRI  efforts to document and evaluate the achievements in TRANSFORM using eva luative inquiry and theoretical reasoning whereas the article Transformati ve Translations? Challenges and tensions in territorial innovation governa nce | NOvation – Critical Studies of Innovation presents a comparative a nalysis of different territorial RRI-pilots within the project TRANSFORM a nd reflects on the concept of RRI.\n\nMore information about this speaker .\nMircea Sofonea\nAssociate professor in Epidemiology and Evolution of In fectious Diseases\nUniversity of Montpellier\, France\nPhD infectious dise ase evolution\nPathogenesis and control of chronic and emerging infections (PCCEI) research unit\, University of Montpellier\, INSERM\nEpidemiologis t at Nîmes University Hospital (CHU)\n\n\n\nBiologist and applied mathema tician by training\, Mircea T. Sofonea is an associate professor at the Un iversity of Montpellier\, where he oversees spatial analysis\, biostatisti cs\, epidemiology\, and population dynamics courses to biology\, pharmacy and medicine students. Trained in anti-infective therapeutics and health i nformation\, he is also an epidemiologist at Nîmes University Hospital (C HU).\n\nWithin the Pathogenesis and Control of Chronic and Emerging Infect ions research unit (University of Montpellier\, INSERM)\, he co-leads the modelling thematic addressing basic and applied questions related to the e pidemiology\, evolution\, and control of respiratory viruses. An executive member of the local university hospital’s Federation of Infectiology (F HU TIE) and of the Modelling Network of the National Agency for Emerging I nfectious Diseases (ANRS | MIE)\, he co-organizes yearly transdisciplinary events on infectious diseases. As a member of the Air &\; COVID commit tee of the French Agency for Food\, Environmental and Occupational Health &\; Safety (ANSES)\, he regularly provides expertise to media and decis ion-makers.\n\nSince 2022\, Mircea T. Sofonea is head of research at the E xposUM Institute\, in charge of accelerating interdisciplinary projects on environmental health led by the University of Montpellier and its partner s\, aiming to establish an interdisciplinary\, off-site institute dedicate d to exposome research and environmental health. The exposome encompasses the lifelong set of environmental and social factors that\, combined with individual intrinsic characteristics\, influence the onset\, progression\, and severity of both infectious and non-communicable diseases. The ExposU M Institute explores the exposome through four complementary approaches: b iological mechanisms of exposure\, environmental exposure monitoring\, hos t-pathogen-vector ecology\, and the interplay between the exposome and hum an health.\n\nThe institute is structured around three core missions: rese arch\, training\, and science-society engagement. These axes work in syner gy\, organizing annual calls for proposals and providing leadership for Mo ntpellier’s exposome research community\, currently supporting over 40 p rojects. Aligned with its scientific and societal ambitions\, ExposUM fost ers interdisciplinarity\, new collaborations\, a One Health and Global Hea lth perspective\, regional resource mobilization\, and open\, sustainable research.\n\nMore information about this speaker.\nIris van der Tuin\nProf essor of Cultural Inquiry Theory\nUtrecht University\, Netherlands \nPhD h umanities\nChair Theory of cultural inquiry\nDean of Interdisciplinary Edu cation of Utrecht University\n\n\n\nTrained as a feminist epistemologist a nd working as an interdisciplinarian\, Iris van der Tuin works at the inte rsection of philosophy of science and humanities\, cultural theory and cri tical as well as creative practices of cultural inquiry. She is interested in the new and interdisciplinary humanities and in theoretical and practi ce-based approaches to the research of interdisciplinary teaching and lear ning. The name of her chair is Theory of Cultural Inquiry as she deeply be lieves that there is room for philosophies and theories of knowledge enric hed by reflections on humanities and how humanities do not only study the works of culture but also work together with artists.\n\nIn 2014–18\, Ir is van der Tuin chaired the COST Action New Materialism: Networking Europe an Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to Matter’. Then she worked in the H2020 project Ethics of Coding: A Report on the Algorithmic Condition. In 2020\, she founded the Susanne K. Langer Circle\, an international and mu ltidisciplinary group interested in the work of the American philosopher S usanne Langer. She is also founding co-editor of the book series New Mater ialisms at Edinburgh University Press and of the special issue Practice-ba sed Research of Interdisciplinary Higher Education of HSSCOMMS\, an imprin t of Nature.\n\nHer research is part of the group Transmission in Motion o f the Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICON) of Utrecht University\, a hybri d research community that brings researchers across disciplines together w ith artists and other external stakeholders\, focusing on how technologica l developments reconfigure our senses. Archives are turned into ‘dynarch ives\,’ setting knowledge cultures in motion. Movement\, gesture\, and e mbodied interaction are also central to new insights into embodied practic es of teaching and learning\, creation and performance. This requires new concepts and methods\, opening up to new transdisciplinary horizons for re search and development\, and offering new possibilities for cross-sector c ollaborations between the humanities\, the sciences\, and the arts\, as we ll as with societal and industry partners.\n\nIris is also a member of the Research Institute for Philosophy and Religious Studies (OFR) of Utrecht University. This institute is the home of reflection on interdisciplinarit y in research\, teaching and learning from historical\, philosophical and empirical points of view. Together with her group she has published Key Te xts on Interdisciplinary Higher Education for Bristol University Press.\n\ nMore information about this speaker.\nQuique Bassat\nPediatrician\nDirect or of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)\, Spain\nPhD me dicine\nICREA research professor\n\n\n\nAs a pediatrician with special int erest in infectious disease epidemiology and public health\, Quique Bassat has attempted to combine his clinical work with biomedical research in th ose diseases that most affect the poor and vulnerable. His main area of in terest has been the prevention and treatment of malaria in childhood\, wit h a particular focus on understanding the clinical overlap of malaria and other common pediatric conditions. His research has also covered the new p aradigm of malaria eradication\, with a particular interest in evaluating the role of drugs in elimination strategies.\n\nHe has also conducted work on the description of the epidemiology and etiology of respiratory infect ions (viral and bacterial)\, diarrheal diseases\, and neonatal infections in places such as Mozambique\, Morocco or Bhutan. Currently\, his main int erests are related to the validation and implementation of minimally invas ive autopsy (MIA) tools for the post-mortem investigation of causes of dea th in the developing world. He is also working on the validation and evalu ation of low-cost technological devices that can be used to improve health in low-income countries.\n\nSince 2024\, Quique Bassat is the director ge neral of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)\, where he l eads a team of nearly 600 people committed to improving global health and promoting health equity. ISGlobal is the result of an innovative alliance between the "la Caixa" Foundation\, academic institutions and government b odies to contribute to the efforts undertaken by the international communi ty to address health challenges in a globalized world.  This consolidated hub of excellence in research takes its expertise from the world of healt h care\, with the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona and the Parc de Salut MAR\ , and the academic sphere\, with the University of Barcelona and Pompeu Fa bra University.\n\nMore information about this speaker.\nJennifer Edmond\n Associate professor in Digital Humanities\nTrinity College Dublin\, Irelan d\nPhD Germanic languages and literatures\nCo-director of the Trinity Cent er for Digital Humanities\n\n\n\nJennifer Edmond is an internationally rec ognized expert in the application of arts and humanities insight to academ ic and societal challenges arising at the intersection of information and communication technologies and culture. Her ambition is to utilize her pos ition of leadership in the digital humanities to significantly progress co nsolidation of the emerging subfield of the critical digital humanities. M ost of her publications are in open access.\n\nFormer president (2018-2022 ) of the board of directors of the pan-European research infrastructure fo r the arts and humanities DARIAH-EU\, Jennifer Edmond has played a leaders hip role in numerous strategic developments at national and institutional level. She has lent her expertise in the development of infrastructure to a wide variety of initiatives and agencies\, from the food manufacturing i ndustry through to the Korean national maritime agency. She has coordinate d many significant large-scale interdisciplinary research projects\, like CENDARI FP7 (2012-2016)\, a collaborative European digital archival infras tructure. She was also a partner in the related infrastructure cluster PAR TENHOS\, whose objective was to strengthen the cohesion of research across several related fields associated with the humanities.\n\nKT4D is her mos t recent project on AI\, big data and democracy. Led by Trinity College Du blin with a consortium of twelve partner organizations\, the Knowledge Tec hnologies for Democracy (KT4D) project is investigating how democracy and civic participation can be better facilitated in the face of rapidly chang ing knowledge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and big da ta. This in order to enable actors across society to capitalize on the man y benefits these technologies can bring in terms of community empowerment\ , social integration\, individual agency\, and improved trust in both inst itutions and technological instruments while identifying and mitigating po tential ethical\, legal and cultural risks.\n\nMore information about this speaker.\nIsabel Feichtner\nProfessor of Public Law and International Eco nomic Law\nJulius-Maximilians University of Würzburg\, Germany\nDr. jur.\ , LL.M (Cardozo Law School)\nFounder of the Law Clinic Transformation Law\ n\n\n\nIsabel Feichtner’s research work is grounded in practice. After h er studies\, she was admitted to the New York Bar and worked for the New Y ork office of the law firm Cravath\, Swaine &\; Moore as a corporate as sociate in the securitization department for one year. Her research intere sts cover the distributive effects of law\, the democratization of society \, and the law of the commons and commoning. She explores how institutiona l experiments\, such as the redesign of money or commons public partnershi ps\, can support social-ecological transformation through democratization and commoning. Her expertise includes international law\, law and politica l economy\, international law of natural resource extraction and the law o f money and finance.\n\nFrom 2022 to 2024\, Isabel Feichtner was fellow at The New Institute in Hamburg\, a residential fellowship program based in Hamburg and designed to nourish transformation through interdisciplinary a nd trans-sectoral collaboration\, where she chaired the program Reclaiming Common Wealth: Towards a Law and Economy of Land Commons. This program ex plored pathways\, processes\, and institutional designs for the generation and governance of land commons\, aiming to address discontents arising fr om institutional investments in land\, assess theories and concepts of pro perty and value\, and establish a repository of the law and institutional design of land commons.\n\nIsabel Feichtner founded the Law Clinic Transfo rmation Law\, both a teaching format and a forum for transdisciplinary res earch to explore how law may serve as a building block of a democratized p olitical economy. She considers this project as an attempt to democratize law and legal education for social-ecological change\, strongly believing that transformative law must rethink and redesign the institutions and inf rastructures at the core of political economy\, such as property\, money\, and the corporation.\n\nMore information about this speaker.\nLaura Hells ten\nPost-doc researcher in theology\nÅbo Akademi University in Turku\, F inland \nPhD systematic theology\n\n\n\nIn her first post-doctoral positi on\, in the Stiftelsen Åbo Akademi foundation Centre of Excellence BACE\, Laura Hellsten studied the interaction of a team of physics\, chemistry a nd cell biology researchers. The BACE collaboration centered on developing a platform for bioelectronic activation that enables the control of cell signals and\, thereby\, the stimulation of cell functions. Hellsten did et hnographic fieldwork with the research group investigating questions of et hics and science communication.\n\nTo study science communication\, Hellst en further developed and led the research project Avtryck i det okända – Forcing the Impossible (2020-2022)\, which created transdisciplinary c ollaborations between artists and researchers in the broader context of Å bo Akademi University.\n\nShe is principal investigator for the research p roject: Praxis of Social Imaginaries – a Theo-artistic Intervention for Transdisciplinary Knowledge (2024-2028). This project brings together thr ee different components: theological understanding of social imaginaries\, cosmologies and polysemous reading practices\, artistic research methods of intervention\, and indigenous or traditional ways of knowledge producti on including listening and storytelling. Through creating nomadic and comm unity based symposia where the project brings together people from across the Nordic region\, with students and researchers from Åbo Akademi Univer sity and the global south\, as well as artists and activists to transdisci plinary symposia and art based dialogue sessions\, it is aiming to cultiva te practices of wisdom\, ask bold questions\, and train critical inquiry i nto how colonial patterns are influencing society and universities today.\ n\nMore information about this speaker.\nJudit Mádl-Szőnyi\nAssociated p rofessor in Hydrogeology\nEötvös Loránd University in Budapest\, Hungar y\nPhD\, DSc\, hydrogeology\nHead of József and Erzsébet Tóth Endowed H ydrogeology Chair\nVice-dean for strategic and innovation affairs of ELTE Faculty of Science\n\n\n\nJudit Mádl-Szőnyi specialises in hydrogeology\ , focusing on regional groundwater flow systems and basin hydrogeology. Wi th over three decades of teaching and research\, she has significantly con tributed to understanding groundwater driving forces\, flow patterns\, and connections between groundwater flow systems and vegetation patterns. Her research group has gained international recognition for their work. She h as developed groundwater flow models for deep carbonate aquifers and promo ted nature-based managed aquifer recharge. Her interdisciplinary research also addresses climate change and impacts on groundwater\, adaptation opti ons\, and sustainable geothermal energy use. Her work has influenced acade mic circles and contributed to practical applications in environmental man agement and policy-making. Additionally\, she is actively involved in ment oring the next generation of hydrogeologists\, fostering a collaborative a nd innovative research environment.\n\nSince 2011\, she has chaired the Re gional Groundwater Flow Commission of the International Association of Hyd rogeologists (IAH) and led over fifteen R&\;D projects\, including pres tigious European projects. Her most notable award is the IAH Presidents’ Award.\n\nOver the last decades\, through Shell\, MOL R&\;D\, and Euro pean innovation and development projects\, Judit Mádl-Szőnyi has adapted her knowledge for hydrocarbon exploration and energy transition goals\, i ncluding geothermal energy and related mineral resources. Judit Mádl-Sző nyi is the principal investigator of the Water4All project ClimEX-PE\, lau nched in 2024 among partner universities of the CHARM-EU alliance. This tr ansdisciplinary project involves scientists from various fields of natural science and researchers with strong socio-legal expertise while also payi ng special attention to public engagement through communication and educat ion.\n\nMore information about this speaker.\nMark Oelmann\nProfessor of W ater and Energy Economics\nRuhr West University of Applied Sciences in Mü lheim an der Ruhr\, Germany\nPhD economics\n\n\n\nMark Oelmann is the dire ctor of the Bachelor's program BWL - Energy and Water Management at the Ru hr West University of Applied science. A diverse and enhanced collaboratio n - for example\, in dual studies - with companies and service providers i n the energy and water sectors is at the very heart of this program. As a researcher\, he is doing economic and political studies on water related i ssues and deals with the various forms of water pricing and is involved in digitalization topics\, such as machine learning or change management.\n\ nMark Oelmann has been greatly contributing to a better integration of an economic perspective into water management thinking. Over 25 years in the water sector and other adjacent network sectors\, he worked in investment banking at Deutsche Bank\, as a managing consultant at the internationally renowned Capgemini Consulting and a department head at the Scientific Ins titute for infrastructure and communication services (WIK) GmbH. He collab orates with the German federal ministry of Education and research (BMBF) o n international water issues\, most recently on water and agriculture in P akistan. A part of his work is focusing on developing and emerging countri es: Albania\, China\, Iran\, Indonesia\, Yemen\, Uganda…\n\nAs an econom ist and a cultural anthropologist\, Mark Oelmann is the spokesperson for t he Water Economics and Water Management interdisciplinary research focus a t Ruhr West University of Applied science\, an interdisciplinary topic inv olving the Institute of Economics and the Institute for Civil engineering and intending to foster a transformation process towards sustainable water management. He is also co-partner and co-managing director of the consult ing company spun off from Ruhr West University of Applied science: MOcons. Strongly committed to water issues\, he’s participating in a volunteer network supporting start-ups in building a more sustainable energy future. \n\nMore information about this speaker.\nRasmus T. Slaatelid\nProfessor o f Philosophy of Science\nUniversity of Bergen\, Norway \nPhD philosophy\nH ead of the Centre for the study of the sciences and the humanities (SVT)\n \n\n\nRasmus Slaattelid is a Professor of Philosophy of Science and Head o f the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities at the Unive rsity of Bergen. This Centre teaches courses for PhD students on philosoph ical\, societal and ethical problems of science and technology\, and condu cts research on corresponding topics. Both the research and the teaching a ctivities require dialogue across scientific disciplines and academic cult ures\, but also across different forms of knowing and knowledge practices. \n\nRasmus T. Slaattelid's main research is the translation between knowle dge cultures. He is involved into few research groups at the University of Bergen. His most recent research work is accessible online. Published in 2023\, the book Translations of Responsibility : Innovation Governance in Three European Regions tells the story of how a Horizon 2020-funded resear ch project translated responsible research and innovation (RRI) into pract ice\, all the way from philosophy of technology to EU policy jargon\, to t he project contract\, and finally into the real-life events in these regio ns. In 2020\, a group of European researchers got a European Union (EU) gr ant to do a project called TRANSFORM. The objective of this project was to integrate the principle of responsible research and innovation (RRI) into the research and innovation policies of three European regions: Lombardy\ , Brussels\, and Catalonia. The book analyses the broader context of the d esire for better governance of technoscience and proposes to think of gove rnance in technoscience\, rather than governance of technoscience. On the same subject\, the article Translating tools and indicators in territorial RRI efforts to document and evaluate the achievements in TRANSFORM using evaluative inquiry and theoretical reasoning whereas the article Transfor mative Translations? Challenges and tensions in territorial innovation gov ernance | NOvation - Critical Studies of Innovation presents a comparative analysis of different territorial RRI-pilots within the project TRANSFORM and reflects on the concept of RRI.\n\nMore information about this speak er.\nMircea Sofonea\nAssociate professor in Epidemiology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases\nUniversity of Montpellier\, France\nPhD infectious di sease evolution\nPathogenesis and control of chronic and emerging infectio ns (PCCEI) research unit\, University of Montpellier\, INSERM\nEpidemiolog ist at Nîmes University Hospital (CHU)\n\n\n\nBiologist and applied mathe matician by training\, Mircea T. Sofonea is an associate professor at the University of Montpellier\, where he oversees spatial analysis\, biostatis tics\, epidemiology\, and population dynamics courses to biology\, pharmac y and medicine students. Trained in anti-infective therapeutics and health information\, he is also an epidemiologist at Nîmes University Hospital (CHU).\n\nWithin the Pathogenesis and Control of Chronic and Emerging Infe ctions research unit (University of Montpellier\, INSERM)\, he co-leads th e modelling thematic addressing basic and applied questions related to the epidemiology\, evolution\, and control of respiratory viruses. An executi ve member of the local university hospital’s Federation of Infectiology (FHU TIE) and of the Modelling Network of the National Agency for Emerging Infectious Diseases (ANRS | MIE)\, he co-organizes yearly transdisciplina ry events on infectious diseases. As a member of the Air &\; COVID comm ittee of the French Agency for Food\, Environmental and Occupational Healt h &\; Safety (ANSES)\, he regularly provides expertise to media and dec ision-makers.\n\nSince 2022\, Mircea T. Sofonea is head of research at the ExposUM Institute\, in charge of accelerating interdisciplinary projects on environmental health led by the University of Montpellier and its partn ers\, aiming to establish an interdisciplinary\, off-site institute dedica ted to exposome research and environmental health. The exposome encompasse s the lifelong set of environmental and social factors that\, combined wit h individual intrinsic characteristics\, influence the onset\, progression \, and severity of both infectious and non-communicable diseases. The Expo sUM Institute explores the exposome through four complementary approaches: biological mechanisms of exposure\, environmental exposure monitoring\, h ost-pathogen-vector ecology\, and the interplay between the exposome and h uman health.\n\nThe institute is structured around three core missions: re search\, training\, and science-society engagement. These axes work in syn ergy\, organizing annual calls for proposals and providing leadership for Montpellier’s exposome research community\, currently supporting over 40 projects. Aligned with its scientific and societal ambitions\, ExposUM fo sters interdisciplinarity\, new collaborations\, a One Health and Global H ealth perspective\, regional resource mobilization\, and open\, sustainabl e research.\n\nMore information about this speaker.\nIris van der Tuin\nPr ofessor of Cultural Inquiry Theory\nUtrecht University\, Netherlands \nPhD humanities\nChair Theory of cultural inquiry\nDean of Interdisciplinary E ducation of Utrecht University\n\n\n\nTrained as a feminist epistemologist and working as an interdisciplinarian\, Iris van der Tuin works at the in tersection of philosophy of science and humanities\, cultural theory and c ritical as well as creative practices of cultural inquiry. She is interest ed in the new and interdisciplinary humanities and in theoretical and prac tice-based approaches to the research of interdisciplinary teaching and le arning. The name of her chair is Theory of Cultural Inquiry as she deeply believes that there is room for philosophies and theories of knowledge enr iched by reflections on humanities and how humanities do not only study th e works of culture but also work together with artists.\n\nIn 2014–18\, Iris van der Tuin chaired the COST Action New Materialism: Networking Euro pean Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to Matter’. Then she worked in t he H2020 project Ethics of Coding: A Report on the Algorithmic Condition. In 2020\, she founded the Susanne K. Langer Circle\, an international and multidisciplinary group interested in the work of the American philosopher Susanne Langer. She is also founding co-editor of the book series New Mat erialisms at Edinburgh University Press and of the special issue Practice- based Research of Interdisciplinary Higher Education of HSSCOMMS\, an impr int of Nature.\n\nHer research is part of the group Transmission in Motion of the Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICON) of Utrecht University\, a hyb rid research community that brings researchers across disciplines together with artists and other external stakeholders\, focusing on how technologi cal developments reconfigure our senses. Archives are turned into ‘dynar chives\,’ setting knowledge cultures in motion. Movement\, gesture\, and embodied interaction are also central to new insights into embodied pract ices of teaching and learning\, creation and performance. This requires ne w concepts and methods\, opening up to new transdisciplinary horizons for research and development\, and offering new possibilities for cross-sector collaborations between the humanities\, the sciences\, and the arts\, as well as with societal and industry partners.\n\nIris is also a member of t he Research Institute for Philosophy and Religious Studies (OFR) of Utrech t University. This institute is the home of reflection on interdisciplinar ity in research\, teaching and learning from historical\, philosophical an d empirical points of view. Together with her group she has published Key Texts on Interdisciplinary Higher Education for Bristol University Press.\ n\nMore information about this speaker. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://charm-eu.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/D octoralSummerSchool_Confrence_Visuel-web.jpg CATEGORIES:CHARM-EU event,Innovation,Learning LOCATION:University of Barcelona. 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