Welcome to the website of FINTERDIS - The Finnish Interdisciplinary Society

FINTERDIS – The Finnish Interdisciplinary Society is an academic organization founded on October 4, 2018. FINTERDIS supports inter- and transdisciplinary research and teaching in Finland as well as internationally. 

FINTERDIS aims to support especially students and early-career researchers (below Title of Docent level) in their efforts to integrate approaches and ideas across fields, while collaborating with more advanced scholars with inter- and transdisciplinary interests. The goal of FINTERDIS is that early-career researchers and students would have better and more equal opportunities for independent creative thought and a right to cross boundaries even on radical basis.

FINTERDIS is a registered, autonomous society, whose sphere of activities encompasses the whole country of Finland. We make effort to collaborate with as many Finnish higher education institutions as possible. 

FINTERDIS also introduces different practices related to inter- and transdisciplinarity from different countries to the Finnish context and vice versa and promotes the internationalization of Finnish scholars. 

FINTERDIS has been on a "break" during the academic years 2022-24. We are a voluntary organization, and while we enjoy our "activism" to push for more open boundaries and innovative thinking in academia, this work can also be very exhausting, and mostly goes unrecognized in funding and job applications. We all needed to focus on our own careers for a while. Now it is 2024, and we are making a comeback! Our new board of directors was elected in the General Meeting on May 30, 2024.

FINTERDIS is open to all students, researchers, and teachers affiliated with Finnish universities regardless of career stage or specialization. Please join us in the activities of FINTERDIS!

Our main international collaborators include the U.S.-based Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS), and we are a founding and institutional member of the global Inter- and Transdisciplinary (ITD) Alliance. 

Email:

finterdis(at)finterdis.fi

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