PROGRAMME

Wednesday, 1st October

Thursday, 2nd October

9:00-9:15 // Arrival and registration

9:15-9:30 // Opening comments

9:30-11:00 Session 1

Microbiome research and health in the 'Local South'

11:00-11:30 // Coffee/tea

11:30-13:00 Session 2

Local health challenges and the international scientific context

13:00-14:30 // Lunch

14:30-16:00 Session 3

Opportunities and challenges of collaboration

16:00–16:30 Break

16:30–18:30 World-Cafe “How to collaborate together”
This activity allows participants to discuss issues related to their personal experience as scientists, the situation of their institutions in a local and global scale, advantages and needs. Joint reflection on best practices to establish good interdisciplinary collaborations

18:30 // Drinks

9:00-12:30

Participatory activity: “Scientist meet philosophers: What can we learn from each other?”
This is a participatory activity where philosophers and scientist share their views on the causal connections between various factors and the human gut composition, and philosophical problems associated with it (causality, realism of species, inferences).
It is composed by a short introduction by the philosophers, followed by a guided participatory focus group to design fuzzy cognitive maps.

This activity has a limited number of participants of 15-20 who need to sign an informed consent before participation. See more information here.

12:30-14:00 // Lunch

14:00–18:00 Writeshop

For authors selected as part of the special issue only. The writeshop aims to establish closer theoretical links between the contributions.

19:00 // Dinner

Friday, 3rd October

9:00-11:30 Writeshop continues

11:30-11:45 Break

11:45-13:00 Writeshop continues

13:00–14:00 // Lunch

14:00–16:00 Writeshop continues

16:00–16:15 Break

16:15–18:00 Writeshop continues

18:00 Event ends