It became very evident that transdisciplinary research is needed to facilitate the collaboration between the disciplines that are involved in developing the services/products and to tailor those to the end-users’ needs. But the wide spectrum of stakeholders within the scientific community and the society challenges transdisciplinary research. Moreover, different situations, e.g., during the evolution of a seismic crisis, require different collaboration formats between scientists from various disciplines and different tools to involve societal stakeholders. Despite these difficulties, transdisciplinary efforts are the only way to create effective products/services for our end-users and, consequently, increase society’s resilience.

The ethics group of the workshop developed a decision tree to deduce possible actions for various problems that have ethical implications. If the ethical correctness is consensual, then the solutions are explicit, such as enforcing open science to avoid biases in publishing and handling data/results. But ethically subjective actions first require defining a consensus, for instance by letting experts vote or consider arguments. However, finding a consensus is not trivial: is 70% agreement on releasing OEF information to the public enough to actually do it? The workshop further allowed to establish and strengthen the connections between us, especially among ECSs. The workshop ended with a statement made by one senior: “You [ECS] are the next generation of scientists and, thus, can change the future.”