Transdisciplinarity

1. The coordination of all disciplines and interdisciplines on the basis of a generalized axiomatics (introduced from the purposive level) and an emerging epistemological pattern. In the successive steps of cooperation and coordination between disciplines, transdisciplinarity defines an organizational principle for a hierarchical system of multiple levels, having multiple goals, and in which there is coordination of the whole system toward a common goal.

2. The essential characteristic of a transdisciplinary approach is the cooperation of activities at all levels of the education/innovation system. This depends not only on a common axiomatics (derived from coordination toward an overall system goal) but also on the mutual enhancement of epistemologies. With transdisciplinarity, the whole education/innovation system would be coordinated as a multilevel, multigoal system, embracing a multitude of coordinated interdisciplinary two-level systems.

3. Establishment of a common system of axioms for a set of disciplines.