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BACKGROUND: Over the last few centuries, the overspecialization of various sciences under thepretext of benefiting from pure disciplinary knowledge led to alienation among and competitionbetween different fields of science. Such competition has deviated knowledge from its main objectivewhich is to understand and explain the phenomena. The remedy to this dilemma is to address a newapproach, introduced to higher education in the late 1950s as “interdisciplinarity.” Accordingly, themain purpose of this article is to propose the strategic instances of operationalizing interdisciplinarityas the key requirements to provide a guideline for designing interdisciplinarity activities.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present survey was carried out through the framework synthesismethod. To codify the instances of operationalizing interdisciplinarity, the main elements and structuresof the model were set as the basis of the query for each element and structure; an independentquery was carried out in the literature of the study. The correspondence of the discovered instanceswas once more compared with the conceptual boxes of the primary theoretical model. Ultimately,the taxonomy was concluded through the operational instances based on the primary framework.RESULTS: A total of 152 strategies were identified as implications of operationalization of 13 layersand 38 sublayers of the multilayer interdisciplinary model.CONCLUSION: The development of interdisciplinarity in the national higher education system requiresseveral measures to be taken at different levels of a discipline or scientific field of study. Relying onthis, which is the main basis of entering into interdisciplinarity activities, the present study suggestsand presents strategic instances of interdisciplinarity operationalization.