Today I would like to talk to you about the Engage Days [1], an event that took place two weeks ago. First of all, What are the Engage days? Engage, the society where I’m currently doing my internship, organizes every 6 months an event that extends on 4 days called Engage Days. For this event, a topic is chosen and many stakeholders of the field come to speek in conferences, make ateliers and games to let people participate and learn more about the topic. During the last Engage Days, the topic was the living. Since this topic is very wide, there were many different stakeholders talking about biology, biotechnology, biomimicry, alimentation, ethics… What was my work at the Engage Days? As I already said in my first blogpost, at Engage I’m responsible for the communication. Before the event I had to communicate via email, facebook and twitter about the event. The objective was to raise visibility on the event and involve the largest number of people. Then, I created a page on Weezevent [2], a software where all the participants had to sign in to let Engage know when they would arrive and how much time they'd stay at the Engage Days. I also created the visual of the event (Image 1). This was necessary for the organisation since 80 persons were attending the event. Moreover, I had to contact the stakeholders to invite them to the event and also ask them a preview of their presentation to make sure their intervention was itinerant with the subject of the days. Image 1 : The visuel I created for the Engage Days presenting some of the speackers of the event. During the event I had the opportunity to follow all the conferences and take notes for making a report to send to all the participants. I was also charged to regularly share moments of the event on social medias. Image 2 : An example of tweet during the Engage Days. In this picture, Brigitte Gothière, director of L214. But the biggest part of my work consisted in the redaction of the report for the participants. For the report I had to do some infographic slides and select the most important notions about the conferences for all the 8 speakers at the Engage Days. For doing the infographics and the visual of the event I used a softwear called Canva [3]. This softwear allows me to do a lot of visuals and is free. What did we talk about during the Engage Days? During these conferences we treated the theme of the living starting from the questions : what is the living? How could we modificate it? Vincent Schachter, tried to answer these questions but as we already learned during the first year at FDV, there isn’t an accorded answer between the scientists concerning the question. There are many characteristics that an organism should have to be considered a living organism. For example it should be able to interact with it's environment and be able to reproduce itself. [4] Concerning the second question, many stakeholders treat the thematic of OGMs, such as Pierre-Henri Gouyon and Jacques Caplat, enriching our knowledge on the subject and presenting different points of view. [5] Image 3 : An infographic I created for the final report of the Engage Days based on Pierre-Henri Gouyon's presentation. [6] But we didn’t only discuss about biology, but also about ethics. Between the stakeholders there was Brigitte Gothière, director of L214 [7], an association that fights for animal protection and for the closure of slaughterhouses. Also, Karine Jacquemart, director of Foodwatch France [8], a political organization that defends consumers rights, claiming for a transparent market, where consumers are free to decide what to eat, with full knowledge of the origin of the product they choose. Image 4 : An infographic I created for the final report of the Engage Days based on Brigitte Gothière's presentation. The Engage Days have been a really interesting experience for me; I learned a lot about such a wide range of topics that passionate me on the theme of the living. Moreover, I had the opportunity to exchange ideas with all the speakers and discover many different points on the same subject. If you want to know more about OGMs, I suggest you a very interesting documentary made by Arte with Pierre-Henri Gouyon, speaker at Engage : https://rutube.ru/video/b1ad819173bf6ed685cf1abe8300890f/ If you want to know more about L214’s activity : last week they released informations concerning a health scandal in a breton pig livestock :http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2017/03/16/scandale-sanitaire-dans-un-elevage-breton-de-cochons_5095235_3244.html References :
[1] http://engage.world/engage-days-5 [2] https://www.weezevent.com/fr/ [3] https://www.canva.com/ [4] John Maynard Smith, Eörs Szathmáry, Les Origines de la vie, éd. Dunod, (2000) [5] Jacques Caplat, Changeons d'agriculture, Réussir la transition, Éd. Actes Sud, (2014), p 160 [6] Hélène Leriche, Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Aux origines de l"environnement, Fayard, (2010) [7] https://www.l214.com/ [8] https://www.foodwatch.org/fr/accueil/
4 Comments
Yulian
23/3/2017 08:16:41 am
Hello Regine :) After the L214 president speech, are you going to be vegan, or did her speech that you were in charge to share fail to reach its aim ?
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Régine
31/3/2017 03:16:46 am
Hello Yulian,
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margaux
31/3/2017 02:08:29 am
I'd be glad to know how L214 would adress the economic issues caused by a brutal shutdown of the meat sector...
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Régine
4/4/2017 09:03:25 am
Hi Margaux,
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