Transdisciplinary Global Health Challenge
Community Service Learning project: VU Global Health minor 2022 to 2024
Welcome to our openresearch workspace!
The Transdisciplinary Global Health Challenge is a 20-week collaborative project resulting in community-based interventions to improve disease burdens of communities in Netherlands and beyond. It is an innovative educational initiative that is based on the two important Open Science pillars - “open engagement of societal actors” and “open dialogue with other knowledge systems” (UNESCO, 2021). The purpose of the Transdisciplinary Global Health Challenge is to integrate academia into local communities, thereby connecting science and society. Together, students and community members will cross ideological and cultural boundaries to develop personal and professional skills. Through these interactions and engagement, the project benefits the following:
- students by equipping them with transdisciplinary skills, a deeper understanding of global health issues, and inculcating a strong sense of civic and social responsibility where they develop values that support the principles and practices of open science with and for society;
- societal stakeholder - particularly those belonging to marginalized communities by amplifying their voices, and providing them space and stake in open science practices to discuss and address the issues they face
- open science in Amsterdam by integrating different knowledge systems and disciplines, aligning with the value of Equity and Fairness, connecting science and society, and integrating knowledge from the communities to enrich research and our understanding of these issues, and ways to address those in Amsterdam and beyond.
As a part of the dissemination effort within this project, students are tasked at managing an Openresearch.amsterdam workspace throughout the entirety of the challenge. The purpose of Openresearch is to optimize collaborative sharing and dissemination for stakeholders from science and society.
So, what is Openresearch.amsterdam?
Openresearch exposes students to open platform sharing, an integral aspect of driving innovation and scientific research and development. Openresearch enables users to develop a portfolio, which remains inaccessible to other users, until student groups, and their community partners, agree to publish their work to fellow Amsterdam-based innovators. The student is responsible for the management of the Openresearch profile, specific to their social issue. The role of the partner is to agree and act upon participation requirements determined with the student group.
The Transdisciplinary Global Health Challenge promotes students' responsible for their own online portfolios, which will raise awareness of the interventions that lessen the tension of many social issues. In addition to this advantage, students and community partners may hopefully gain something from the challenge outside the realm of scientific publication, such as a finished report that may be a reference for future employers, or lifelong friends.
Check out our our community partner collections below!
