In order to allow all participants, be it researchers, professionals, students, recipients of social work or residents of the city quarter, to express themselves and exchange freely, the speakers can choose from a wide range of communication and intervention formats. Some formats have been specially selected to encourage professionals, students and recipients of social work to get involved. This is particularly the case for the so-called discussion and creative workshops, but also with regard to the neighbourhood discovery workshops.
Regardless of the format, each speaker will have sufficient time to develop his or her arguments. At the same time, much space is always reserved for discussion and/or experimentation.
- Large audience presentations (on invitation only). These presentations are spread out on 90 minutes. A speaker, invited by the scientific committee, examines an original and specific facet from within the conference’s thematic strands. Time of presentation is restricted to 45 minutes and opens the stage for a discussion (about 45 minutes), animated by a host.
- Individual presentations. This format is open to everyone, be it teacher-researchers, professionals, students or recipients of social and educational services. Speakers have a maximum of 30 minutes to present, followed by a 15-minute discussion (45 minutes total). For the submission of an individual presentation it is important to clearly specify the binary categorization(s) treated within a contextual embedment (scope, practice, etc.). The summary should also provide information on the issues the speaker wishes to discuss with the audience. As the standard duration of a session is 90 minutes, there will be two individual presentations regrouped into one session.
- Presentation workshops. Those who wish to submit an abstract for a presentation workshop (duration: 90 minutes) should find themselves in groups of two or three, each participant with an individual contribution. The presentation time per intervention is limited to 20 minutes in case of three communications. The summary submitted must not only provide information on the content of the individual contributions but also on the common thread that the speakers wish to work on within the workshop, particularly in terms of questions to be discussed. Thus, it should contain indications on how the speakers wish to involve the audience within the joint reflection.
- Discussion workshops. This fourth format is completely dedicated to discussion (duration: 90 minutes). Those who wish to organize a discussion workshop have to specify the issues they intend to address within the workshop. These questions must obviously be related to the conference’s thematic strands. In their summaries, the organizers should also indicate the contextual embedment that has influenced/provoked their questions. During the workshop, the organizers should make a short introduction on their topic, letting creativity thrive. Thus, the introduction may, as an example, consist of the exhibition of a “case”, a press article, the presentation of a video or a television documentary followed by the questions to be raised. This format is particularly, but not exclusively, aimed at educational and social work professionals as well as “users/clients/recipients/trainees”.
- Creative workshops. As the name suggests, this format plays an important part in the conference’s creative experimentation. Rather than relying on presentations, the creative workshop seeks to promote an active participation of the audience through simulations of situations or role plays. Ideally, these situations are directly inspired by “cases” encountered in the field. The idea is to experiment with different possible scenarios with the participants and thus to encourage common reflection and enhance creative invention. The summary shall specify the situation(s) staged and the issues raised. The creative workshops have a duration of 90 minutes. Just like the discussion workshops, this format is particularly, but not exclusively, aimed at educational and social work professionals as well as”users/clients/recipients/trainees”.
- Neighbourhood discovery workshops (call for proposals to social institutions, UL students, habitants and users/clients of social services within the quarter). This format is similar to so-called field visits. As the conference takes place directly in the “sensitive” quarter of Bonnevoie in the south of the city of Luxembourg, which also has a very high density of social institutions, it would be a pity not to allow participants to “discover” this very quarter and its people. A call is thus made to social institutions present in the field, but also to students of the University of Luxembourg, habitants of the quarter and users/recipients/clients to propose creative itineraries in direct relation with one or the other binary coding. For the “guides”, this will be an opportunity to “rub themselves against” the participants’ questions and thoughts. The summary must contain information on the route chosen as well as the conference’s thematic strand(s) treated along the way.
- Places and persons outreach workshops. This format is intended exclusively for students who have taken the module on community work as part of their Bachelor in Social and Educational Sciences (BSSE) at the University of Luxembourg. Hence, the organizers of the conference are launching a call to all the students in question to propose experimental and creative extensions of places that “challenge” conventional cuttings. Interested students are asked to directly contact one of the members of the local organizing committee.