Dear YSI Core,
Thank you for all the submissions of ideas for Trento. This year we are planning to do Trento a little differently. See the draft call below, which will be made public next week.
We would like to have as many working groups present there as possible. However, in order to participate, you do not have to construct a program in advance (easy right). We want you to be there as organizers because some of the activities (group work, dinners, etc) will be taking place in the working groups. Your most important task will be to represent the working group, answer questions and to facilitate the creation of new projects in your working group.
We will cover accommodation and travel from Europe from one organizer from each working group. Confirm your participation by sending the name of your organizer to [email protected] by March 31st. Also, please feel free to give comments or new ideas for the program below.
Best,
Heske, Jay and Thomas
DRAFT ANNOUNCEMENT:
YSI has had a program at the Trento Festival of Economics every year since 2013, but this year the YSI participation will be different. There will be no long panels with talks that are way too long, actually, there will be no talks at all, no speeches and no Q&A’s. The call for participation will also not look like a traditional conference. Instead, we’re going to try out new academic formats. Welcome to The Trento Experiment!
We will meet twice daily in the morning and afternoon. In the morning sessions, we’re going to engage in different kinds of group work, research speed dating sessions, mind mapping sessions and other new ideas. In the afternoon, we are going to summarize and explain to each other what we’ve learned at the festival on that day and which ideas it has ignited. In the afternoon sessions, young scholars will also be presenting their own work, but under a new format, where the outline of the talk will be broken into 3 short intervals (which challenge of the 21st century motivates your research (3 minutes), what is the one main idea that drives your research (3 minutes), what is new about your approach (3 minutes). These sessions will be complemented by professional presentation training.
In order to apply to attend Experiment Trento, you will need to answer 2 questions:
1) What challenge of the 21st century does your research address and how (150 words)
2) Describe a topic that economics is not properly addressing and why economists should be dealing with it (150 words)
If you are selected to participate, YSI will provide accommodation in Trento. A limited amount of travel stipends are available.
TENTATIVE PROGRAM:
Morning Sessions:
THURSDAY MAY 30th
10 – 12: Welcome and Working Group Presentations (WG Organizers)
16 – 17: What did you learn today? (Group work)
17 – 18: Presentation training & Young Scholar presentations (Lynn Parramore)
21: Dinner with INET Speaker John Raulston Saul
FRIDAY MAY 31st
10 – 12: Mind map session (Tahnee)
16 – 17: What did you learn today? (Group work)
17 – 18: Presentation training & Young Scholar presentations (Lynn Parramore)
21: Dinner with working groups
SATURDAY JUNE 1st:
10 – 12: Knowledge stations (Cecilia)
16 – 17: What did you learn today? (Group work)
17 – 18: Presentation training & Young Scholar presentations (Lynn Parramore)
21: Dinner with INET Speaker John Raulston Saul
SUNDAY JUNE 2nd
10 -12: Project speed-dating, project brainstorm meeting (Peter Bent)