SURUMER – Sustainable Rubber Production in the Mekong Region. Subproject 8: Interaction Management – Facilitation of Transdisciplinary Process and Communication Measures Towards Implementation of Project Results
Abstract
Application-oriented research in the field of socio-economic development and biodiversity deterioration is demanding a high level of Integration within the research consortium SURUMER: integration of the scientific concepts, integration of researchers and practitioners (stakeholders), integration of the research results into the land use-practice. The central instrument for integration on all levels is a dialogue-oriented research process of Stakeholder analysis – integrative planning, monitoring and evaluation (iPME) – implementation & upscaling in order to transfer project results into practical land use. Such research processes are not self-organising! Subproject 8 focuses on steering this transdisciplinary process. Two most important levels of communication are to be managed: • Project internal communication which is interdisciplinary (amongst researchers from various disciplines) and/or transdisciplinary (between researchers and stakeholders directly involved) but always aims at knowledge generation, and • external communication of project results, in particular concerning the transfer – dissemination and adaptation – of knowledge from the project and its participants to (potential) users with the aim of implementation. For the first aspect, it facilitates the multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary discourse in all project phases from mutual planning to participatory monitoring and evaluation, with a special view on the project’s impacts. For the second aspect and as a basis for a broader knowledge transfer and application of the project’s scientific concepts, it analyses factors as well as framework conditions of relevance for the acceptance, adoption and dissemination of alternative land-use innovations within the Agricultural Knowledge System (AKS) of Xishuangbanna and exemplarily develops and implements at least one educational programme. Both parts are interlinked: Interim results of the systems analysis (e.g. goals) will be fed in the discourse and, in turn, the transfer concept will be result of it.
Principal investigators
Financer
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Duration of project
Start date: 12/2011
End date: 06/2017
