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=== [https://www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-institute-sustainability-science Driving sustainability transformation - HELSUS] ===
=== [https://www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-institute-sustainability-science Driving sustainability transformation - HELSUS] ===
Introduction: In order to promote sustainable transformations, HELSUS is an interdisciplinary unit in University of Helsinki to boost cross-faculty cooperation. HELSUS accelerates sustainability transitions through researching in Consumption and Production, Global South, Arctic, Urban and Theory and Methodology, exerting impact by “acting in a knowledge brokering role, providing synthesized knowledge for the society, mobilizing the research community into active dialogue with society using multiple forms of communication, and by advocating the significance of science-based knowledge in society"<ref>‘Impact’. Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science. DOI: <nowiki>https://www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-institute-sustainability-science/impact</nowiki></ref>.
Introduction: In order to promote sustainable transformations, HELSUS is an interdisciplinary unit in University of Helsinki to boost cross-faculty cooperation. HELSUS accelerates sustainability transitions through researching in Consumption and Production, Global South, Arctic, Urban and Theory and Methodology, exerting impact by “acting in a knowledge brokering role, providing synthesized knowledge for the society, mobilizing the research community into active dialogue with society using multiple forms of communication, and by advocating the significance of science-based knowledge in society"<ref>‘Impact’. Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science. DOI: <nowiki>https://www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-institute-sustainability-science/impact</nowiki></ref>.
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This page aims to clarify how interdisciplinarity contributes to sustainable development by stating its values and goals.

Values of interdisciplinary practices

Interdisciplinary practices can contribute to sustainable development in three dimesions: societal, academic, and personal.[1]

Societal impact

  • Goal-oriented: societal problems
  • Relevant to policy making
  • Cooperation between different disciplines

Academic innovation

  • producing new concepts, models, and methods
  • providing interdisciplinary perspectives
  • questioning the existed disciplines
  • triggering spin-off research
  • emergence of new disciplines

Personal development

  • Demanding but fruitful
  • Progress with strong experience
  • Enhanced competence: research skills, social skills, communicative skills.

Goals of interdisciplinarity in sustainable sciences

The significance of interdisciplinary is examplified by the absoluteness of this sentence: "all science proper is interdisciplinary."[2] Interdisciplinarity is meaningful in achieving the goals as listed:

  • promoting disciplinary transitions towards sustainability and boosting sustainable academic development.
  • promoting innovation, synthesis and intellectual progress through collaborative projects.
  • making full use of existing knowledge to tackle societally relevant issues.
  • arranging various disciplines consciously to make sustainable science robust.
  • conducting goal-oriented interdisciplinary research to efficiently solve global issues.

Sustainable development goals

Goals of sustainable linguistics

Protecting language sustainbility
  • To raise awareness concerning knowledge on languages, language endangerment and language diversity.
  • Long-term strategies for language use and maintenance.
Providing equal opportunities (region, gender, language)
  • Gender:Considerations of gender bias in language and its cultural influences in relation to women's rights, non-binary rights and in general move toward a more neutral and inclusive language within society.
  • Region:Assist developing countries by providing technological and financial resources to do linguistic research.
  • language：Providing education in native languages of the communities and from the community's needs and perspectives.
promoting universal cooperation
  • Providing language education in English and/or other second languages to allow the possibility of cross-cultural collaboration.
  • Remove barriers for participation in international community.
  • Providing services in multi-lingual contexts.

Driving sustainability transformation - HELSUS

Introduction: In order to promote sustainable transformations, HELSUS is an interdisciplinary unit in University of Helsinki to boost cross-faculty cooperation. HELSUS accelerates sustainability transitions through researching in Consumption and Production, Global South, Arctic, Urban and Theory and Methodology, exerting impact by “acting in a knowledge brokering role, providing synthesized knowledge for the society, mobilizing the research community into active dialogue with society using multiple forms of communication, and by advocating the significance of science-based knowledge in society"[3].

  1. ↑ Crabbé, A. (2019). Interdisciplinarity and Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11352-0_215
  2. ↑ Thorén, H., M. Nagatsu and P. Schönach. 2021. ‘Interdisciplinarity’. In Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts, edited by C. P. Krieg and R. Toivanen, 21–37. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-14-2.
  3. ↑ ‘Impact’. Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science. DOI: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-institute-sustainability-science/impact
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