Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz

The editors lead the accompanying research project 'Focussing knowledge – Encouraging commitment – Facilitating mastery' in the focal topic. They all work at the Interdisciplinary Centre for General Ecology (IKAÖ) at the University of Bern. They have carried out numerous research projects – often of an inter- and transdisciplinary nature – on ecologically responsible actions in the context of sustainable development. They also study issues relating to inter- and transdisciplinarity and moderate the synthesis processes in project groups. Rico Defi la is an attorney at law and head of the planning and operations department at IKAÖ, Antonietta Di Giulio is a philosopher and university lecturer in general ecology, specialising in general propaedeutics of science (human and natural) and interdisciplinarity. They are joint leaders of the research group Inter-/Transdisciplinarity at IKAÖ. Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz is a psychologist and emerita professor of general ecology;until 2011 she was director of IKAÖ.