Science oriented around social issues is now interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary. This book provides insights into the challenges associated with scientists departing from the safe terrain of their home academic disciplines. Their expertise is relativized and new methodical ground is broken.

Based on 30 years of experience, the contributions focus and reflect on the practice of research and how projects run from beginning to end. This volume fills a gap in the German-language research literature and develops approaches for how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary project teams can work (more) successfully using project timelines.