Organised by: The Doctoral School of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in collaboration with the Doctoral Schools of the Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)

Event design and project tutoring: Arantxa Mendiharat (Deliberativa), Elisa de los Reyes (Pez Estudio), Livio Riboli-Sasco (Atelier des Jours à Venir), Claire Ribrault (Atelier des Jours à Venir).

Audiovisual summary of the meeting: Laura Fernández (latransmisora.org)

[Pre-event]

Programme

Tuesday, 1 December. Getting to know each other.

9:00 - 12:30. Online. Different dynamics to get to know each other and to start discussing the different challenges.

12:30 - 15:00. Offline. Individual work.
Each participant:

• chooses 3 challenges with which they would like to collaborate, in order of preference.
• mentions, if they wish, a profile or a specific person that they would like to see on their team.

15:00 - 17:00. The organising team collects the requests and organises 8 groups of 6-7 people, taking into account the participants’ preferences.

Wednesday, 2 December. Collaboration.

9:00 - 13:30. Online.

The organising team recaps on the 8 lines of work and explains the morning’s dynamics. The objective of the day is for each team to prepare a text that describes how they would respond in a hypothetical future (more or less in line with the defined challenge, explaining how they reached that response). The description of how they reach that response is as important as the description of the scenario in which the challenge is partially or fully resolved. Each group decides on the date in which their future is based (next year, in 5 years’ time, 15 years, etc.), and the territory (local, state, world, etc.).

Each group works on the challenge they have been assigned. Each mentor participates in the groups whenever they decide, depending on the context and nature of the project.

Afternoon. Offline. Self-organised work.

15:00 - 17:00.

• People who wish to do so can contact their colleagues to organise a group session, a phone conversation or similar, according to the needs of the moment (linked or not to the project they are developing).
• Presentations should ideally include images.
• Each group sends the organisation the agreed document before 17:00. It can be a presentation or word processing format.

Thursday, 3 December. Interrogation.

9:00 - 13:30. Online. Game of Throne.

• Game of Throne is an exercise to generate a collective reflection on the possible or desirable future of an initiative. It is used to generate future scenarios. It is used here to test hypotheses issued by the groups, in a sort of peer review.
• One person per group with a project pretends to be in the future; they are in a Congress and the project they have worked on has been developed. They explain the content and how they got there, in 5 minutes (corresponding to the text that was produced the day before).
• Two other people who ARE NOT FROM THE GROUP come out to answer questions about the project.

12:30 - 13:30. Evaluation. The students reflect on how to transfer the attitudes and skills developed during the Meeting to their own research practices and their future professional insertion.