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Fig. 6 Summer school “Inhabiting a Nordic campus: let’s imagine our future in a living laboratory”
4.2 Year 2: 2017–2018—Université Alioune Diop de Bambey,
Sénégal
In February 2017, Institut EDS received a postdoctoral fellow from Université Alione
Diop de Bambey (UADB) that realized his postdoctoral project on the adaptation of
EDS-IA to his university. In July 2017, he started the process in Bambey with the
organization of two workshops. The first workshop brought together students, staff
members and teachers at the UADB and residents of the municipality of Bambey
attended the second. Using the conceptual scheme, participants collectively identified
the priority SDGs for the university and for the municipality and imagined possible
solutions (Diop and Mbengue 2017).
The results obtained during these two workshops showed the relevance of transferring the EDS-IA in an international context. Despite the great differences between
the realities of the two universities, both have similar needs in terms of knowledge
of the SDGs and collaboration between disciplines and stakeholders from different
backgrounds. According to these results, it was decided to continue the steps of the
process and to complete the cycle with a forum and a summer school that were held
in June 2018.
For those activities, eleven students from three cycles and several disciplines of
Université Laval joined ten students of the UADB program of sustainable development and organized five teams. Each team worked on one of the five SDGs prioritized
for the commune (2, 3, 6, 7, 8). A sixth SDG (11: sustainable cities) was chosen to
integrate the results of the other five SDG. The five teams continued the diagnosis
initiated with workshops in 2017, by analyzing existing reports on the status of the
SDGs in Senegal and in Bambey. Once in the field, the teams realized a visit of the
commune and met local government officials, community organizations, commune
service managers, as well as residents to complete the diagnosis of the five SDGs.
The summer school was held in the framework of the International Forum on the
SDGs carried out by UADB on June 19 th and 20 th. With the nearly 30 speakers
and about 100 participants, the forum served as knowledge mobilization stage.
Finally, about a hundred participants from speakers and audience of the forum
and representatives from local organizations joined the student teams to achieve
the ideation step during a one-day workshop at the end of the forum, the living
L. Diaz and A. Potvin
Fig. 6 Summer school “Inhabiting a Nordic campus: let’s imagine our future in a living laboratory”
4.2 Year 2: 2017–2018—Université Alioune Diop de Bambey,
Sénégal
In February 2017, Institut EDS received a postdoctoral fellow from Université Alione
Diop de Bambey (UADB) that realized his postdoctoral project on the adaptation of
EDS-IA to his university. In July 2017, he started the process in Bambey with the
organization of two workshops. The first workshop brought together students, staff
members and teachers at the UADB and residents of the municipality of Bambey
attended the second. Using the conceptual scheme, participants collectively identified
the priority SDGs for the university and for the municipality and imagined possible
solutions (Diop and Mbengue 2017).
The results obtained during these two workshops showed the relevance of transferring the EDS-IA in an international context. Despite the great differences between
the realities of the two universities, both have similar needs in terms of knowledge
of the SDGs and collaboration between disciplines and stakeholders from different
backgrounds. According to these results, it was decided to continue the steps of the
process and to complete the cycle with a forum and a summer school that were held
in June 2018.
For those activities, eleven students from three cycles and several disciplines of
Université Laval joined ten students of the UADB program of sustainable development and organized five teams. Each team worked on one of the five SDGs prioritized
for the commune (2, 3, 6, 7, 8). A sixth SDG (11: sustainable cities) was chosen to
integrate the results of the other five SDG. The five teams continued the diagnosis
initiated with workshops in 2017, by analyzing existing reports on the status of the
SDGs in Senegal and in Bambey. Once in the field, the teams realized a visit of the
commune and met local government officials, community organizations, commune
service managers, as well as residents to complete the diagnosis of the five SDGs.
The summer school was held in the framework of the International Forum on the
SDGs carried out by UADB on June 19 th and 20 th. With the nearly 30 speakers
and about 100 participants, the forum served as knowledge mobilization stage.
Finally, about a hundred participants from speakers and audience of the forum
and representatives from local organizations joined the student teams to achieve
the ideation step during a one-day workshop at the end of the forum, the living