Transdisciplinary Case Study for a real world client

Group work of 6 students from different disciplinary backgrounds who need to integrate their perspectives and that of societal stakeholders.

This assignment helps to achieve the following aims in the master course:

Perform an Integrated Problem Analysis of a sustainable development issue from a multidisciplinary perspective;
Analyse specific subsystems relevant to solving the central (multidisciplinary) research question;
Formulate Integrated Interventions for a multidisciplinary sustainable development problem, in the form of actions to be taken by the client, and/or recommendations for further research on remaining knowledge gaps;
Report on the findings to an audience of both specialists and non-specialist stakeholders;
Take responsibility for, and reflect on, the personal role, as well as that of other students, in the group process;
Show a professional attitude towards the client and stakeholders involved.

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Each students receives about 2,25 hour of guidance (which is mostly done in groups of 6)

Scientific report on a societal issue related to sustainable development, relevant for the outside Client organisation.

Each year about 20-25 reports for outside clients are produced.

Dr. Paul Schot (p.p.schot@uu.nl)

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