tvärfacklighet
Tvärfacklighet is a term used in Swedish academic contexts to describe collaboration across different faculties within a university or research organization. The aim is to combine expertise from multiple disciplines to study problems that are difficult to address from a single disciplinary perspective, such as urban sustainability, public health, or digital society.
Within universities, tvärfacklighet often materializes as cross-faculty research centers, joint degree programs, cross-disciplinary research calls, and
In relation to other terms, tvärfacklighet is one manifestation of interdisciplinarity and is distinguished from tvärvetenskaplighet,
Benefits include access to complementary methods, richer analyses, and increased relevance to policy and society. Challenges
See also: tvärvetenskap, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity.