Press release - 4th ODD Summer School: an edition dedicated to the One Health approach, at the interface between biodiversity and health

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June 30, 2021

The 4th edition of the’Sustainable Development Goals Summer School (SDGs) will bring together 30 selected participants from July 5 to 7 for a collaborative and reflective research project on the close links between biodiversity and health. In line with innovative teaching practices that stimulate the creation of interdisciplinary and intercultural projects, this year's participants will focus on SDGs 14 and 15, devoted respectively to marine and terrestrial biodiversity, at the crossroads of the following approaches One Health («one health»).

Initiated in 2016 by Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), its Campus AFD and the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), the SDO Summer School helps train today's and tomorrow's scientific, economic and political players to bring about solutions to meet the sustainable development challenges adopted by the UN.

A resolutely interdisciplinary «One Health» edition

For this 4th edition, the CRI (Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires) is once again offering its original pedagogical expertise: interdisciplinarity, collective intelligence and the project-based approach, levers for change and development, will embody the training.

Resolutely intercultural and intersectoral, the school will bring together 30 participants, scientists or actors in the implementation of the SDGs from the South and the North, mobilized to contribute to the achievement of the MDGs. sustainable development program to 2030, for the benefit of future generations. Their objective: to work in teams with mentors to develop a research project at the interface of biodiversity and health sciences.

This theme will be approached in a cross-cutting manner, based on the principles of the sustainability science. A vision shared by the four institutions organizing the summer school, this new research approach is based on the co-construction of knowledge and know-how, through collaboration between scientists from different disciplines and non-academic players, in a participatory and committed approach.

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Follow the three inaugural lectures, accessible to the general public, without registration:

June 30, 4-6 p.m. : “A One-Health nexus approach to protecting animals, people and the environment in the context of SDG 15: Life on Land”.”, by Elizabeth P. Ryan, Professor, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Berkeley Colorado State University
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July 1, 4-6 p.m. : “Conservation for the People and by the People: How to involve and empower local communities”.”, by Wanja Nyingi, Head of Ichthyology for the National Museums of Kenya and Coordinator of the Kenya Wetlands Biodiversity Research Group (KENWEB)
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July 2, 4-6 p.m. : “The indiscipline of design: an approach to interdisciplinarity from a design perspective”.”, by Annie Gentes, Professor of Design and Information and Communication Sciences at Télécom Paris and head of Codesign lab & Media Studies
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