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Challenges for Universities: Interdisciplinarity in Research and Higher Education

The fundamental concepts of 'knowledge' and 'tradition' are discussed from an anthropological perspective and monodisciplinary university studies are studied from the present focus on inter/multi/transdisciplinary research, starting with the fundamental views of C.P. Snow (1964) on the 'two cultures' and overview of developing thought up to the present. Through concrete examples it is shown that 'knowledge' manifests itself in different forms and that, from a contemporary point of view, these different 'knowledges' should be, at least to some extent, integrated into university programs. On the basis of a concrete event, namely the Stresa Junior Summit on Water, and its outcomes five years later indicate that it is worthwhile investing in educating early career researchers for interdisciplinarity. Following the thoughts of Van Rensselaer Potter the necessity of this 'new' approach to knowledge and knowledges is necessary because of its direct connection to survival in its most basic sense.

inter/multi/transdisciplinarity, research, higher education, tradition, knowledge, empirical and orientational knowledge, Grand Challenges, university reforms

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