Training sessions

​Citizen participation, multi-actors participation, collective intelligence… You are interested in these approaches that represent a different way of working together. However, you may need a better understanding of them to effectively implement them in your organization. Our training programs, combining theoretical insights, concrete examples, and practical application, can help you with this. To participate in our training, you have two options:

• Join one of our open training sessions, eligible for funding.
• Organize a custom training session within your organization.

Training « Designing, Facilitating, and Evaluating a Territorial Public Participation Process​ »

Public participation requires time and skills! Whether it involves engaging different types of institutional actors or building bridges between institutions and citizens, the challenges are numerous, and mistakes can be costly.

This training offers you a framework to better understand these practices, as well as tools and methods to implement them in your region.

By the end of this training, you will be ready to plan, lead, and facilitate your own participatory process.

Training « Collective intelligence​ »

A public organization or a research center is not a monolithic entity. It consists of different teams or departments, each working from its own perspective and priorities.

The challenge for these organizations is to leverage, rather than suffer from, the diversity of viewpoints and expertise, and to build bridges both internally and externally with stakeholders.

By the end of this training, you will be able to co-create projects that integrate multiple disciplines and/or areas of expertise, both within and outside your organization.

Training: « Developing a Companion Modeling Approach (ComMod) »

The management of natural resources is a key challenge for the coming century(ies). This issue encompasses economic, social, environmental dimensions and is sometimes linked to public health concerns.

Participatory modeling is an approach that allows for collectively addressing these issues in all their complexity. Indeed, the complexity and technical nature of certain problems are often seen as barriers to open discussion. As a result, these issues may be depoliticized and left in the hands of “experts.”

It is common to represent a resource management system through a model. Traditionally, this model is developed solely by researchers using a classical scientific approach. The ComMod approach stands out because it enables the co-creation of a model, drawing on both researchers’ knowledge and local, indigenous knowledge, and it communicates this model through a board game. The game, as a dynamic model based on a shared representation, thus becomes a powerful tool for facilitating debate.