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The CaucaSusT partners will present the project results in an online APPEAR event Transdisciplinary approaches for university-community cooperation in the Caucasus on 27 Jan 2021 at 18:00 – 20:00 CET. Information on the event and registration can be found here: … Continue reading →

the paper, Towards Implementing Transdisciplinarity in Post-Soviet Academic Systems: An Investigation of the Societal Role of Universities in Armeni,  co-authored by the CaucaSusT PHD scholar from Armenia, ASPU and BOKU colleagues, has been published in the journal Sustainability, and is available … Continue reading →

Issues with Applying the Concept of Community-Based Tourism in the Caucasus by Lela Khartishvili, Tamara Mitrofanenko, Andreas Muhar and Marianne Penker Mountain Research and Development Vol 40, Issue 1 The paper is available online: https://bioone.org/doi/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-19-00071.1 https://bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-19-00071.1 (PDF)

The third Transdisciplinary Case Study Course will take place in Racha, Georgia, on August 1-10, 2020. The activities will begin with preliminary trainings at TSU and move to the field. The Armenian case study course is still on hold, due … Continue reading →

The CaucaSusT project, specifically its activities in Georgia, was discussed at an Austrian TV programme (in German) by the Austrian project partners.

Master Students from ASPU, Narek Sahakyan and Tigran Yengibaryan, who participated in the CaucaSusT Field Case Study Course in Armenia in 2018, came to BOKU for a semester supported by the Erasmus+ programme. Both of them plan to present their … Continue reading →

Ani Mkrtumyan, a PhD student from ASPU, recently joined the BOKU CaucaSusT team in Vienna, and will stay with us for 6 months.  Ani’s research concerns approaches to teaching Geography, and she is planning to explore how transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary … Continue reading →

The research work of Lela Khartishvili, the APPEAR Scholar from Georgia working on the CaucaSusT project, was featured in the APPEAR news: https://appear.at/en/news/article/2019/01/developing-new-models-of-sustainable-community-cooperation-in-mountain-regions-of-georgia/

The Transdisciplinary Summer School will take place on 1-6 July, 2019 in Kazbegi, Georgia, organised by the CaucaSusT partners in cooperation with Leuphana University Lüneburg. More information about the Summer School and the application (deadline April 20, 2019) can be found … Continue reading →

The APPEAR scholar from Armenia, Tigran Keryan, is featured on the front page of the APPEAR website, as well as on the Activities and Scientifi Achievements page, with the update from his active participation in the pilot Case Study Courses … Continue reading →