Format of the Meeting
The format of the meeting is meant to stimulate in-depth discussion of various issues rather than having many presentations and only brief discussions. To achieve this, the key features are:
- Plenary sessions only.
- Intensive interactions among a limited number of participants (30-35). All participants will have an active role, either as paper authors or discussants or both. Participation is by invitation only on the basis of submitted abstracts (for researchers) or known expertise (for policy makers).
- All papers have to be written and will be distributed prior to the meeting.
- Papers are not presented at the meeting but expected read beforehand.
- Invited discussants will present comments on papers to kick off the discussions. Two discussants are invited for each paper.
- The meeting consists of two kinds of sessions: 1) paper sessions focussing on a theme; 2) ‘harvesting’ sessions without a paper submission. The latter sessions aim at teasing out lessons for governance and to define a further research agenda. They will summarise progress made at the conference and develop a clearer view on issues to discuss further. To kick of the discussion in the harvesting sessions, two persons will be invited beforehand to present their conclusions from the preceding sessions.
Local costs (hotel, subsistence) will be borne by the organisers. Funding applications to fund travel as well are still pending. Check website for progress on this issue.