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FRANCE-ATLANTA 2023

SIMUVACTION on AI:
AI and Health Disparities
On A Global Stage

Stay tuned for the 2023  edition!     Atlanta, GA, USA
About

About

Simulation - Innovation - Action
Oct. 31th - Nov. 4th, 2023

 

The SIMU-VACTION project is organized under the auspices of France-Atlanta 2022. It is an opportunity for 40 university students from across the world to actively engage, practice, and contribute to the ethical development of AI. Students, coming from different fields, universities, backgrounds, and countries will train for 6-8 weeks through a common course in which they will receive the support of professional partners.

 

Would you like to experience being a Head of State, Journalist, or Lobbyist? Do you want to see how YOU can impact negotiations? Would you like to draft an international level recommendation on important policy?  If so, join us for this exercise replicating a meeting of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence’s (GPAI)be ready to truly invest in your role and stand for the position of your stakeholders ! 

After attending zoom conferences (Sept 15- Oct 15), preparing the roles they are assigned, the students will meet in-person in Atlanta for two days of training on negotiation and the D-DAY!  they have to advance the position of the entity they represent and to successfully create an agreement that illustrates the interest of all parties involved.

 

On the agenda for the FALL 2023: 

                             AI and Health Disparities on a Global Stage.

More specifically, students will write, debate, and vote on one of the most challenging AI quandaries: How can we ensure that AI, designed to help address health inequities does not, in fact, increase such disparities?

 The project fuses young minds - especially GRADUATE STUDENTS - the world of academia, the private and non-profit sectors, as well as the community organizations engaged in issues of health disparity. It provides an opportunity for all actors to meet, discuss, and act around a common goal and project. 

Academic Partner

Our partners and stakeholders participants 

Timeline

Timeline

In enrolling for this program, students must accept the role they are assigned, attend the conferences and the virtual/in-person events, and turn in the assignments on time, as a preliminary condition for receiving the certificate of attendance/ to valid the exercise as an independent study course

Stage 1 - September 8 to October 15th - Conferences by ZOOM from 12 pm to 2 pm EST/ 18.00 to                     20.00 CET 

Stage 2 - October 16th by ZOOM - Role assignment - teams of 2 students - play roles and prepare                      for the D-day (research their assigned positions and roles, attend zoom meetings, post,                      draft of the position paper (one per team) and draft of the general 

Stage 3 - October 31th to November 4th in Atlanta, Georgia, US: In-person attendance is                                        mandatory 

WHAT IS the PROGRAM for STAGE 3 ? 

  • October 31st, Arrival for International Students in Atlanta - 

  • November 1st, (9-1 pm): First session of Negotiation exercises 

  • November 2d, (9-1 pm): Second Session of Negotiation exercises

  • November  3 (8.30 am to 6.pm): the ACTION-DAY ! + Closing Cocktail

  • November 4: Flight back for the International Students

Objectves & Benefits

Objectives & Benefits:
CREATE AN ECOSYSTEM 

The Simuvaction exercise is conceived as a way to create an “ECOSYSTEM” through multi-layered objectives - from active learning to international thinking - with stakeholder representatives coming to an accord on common interests regarding Digital Matters applied to Health Care.

A way for STUDENTS to practice "ACTIVE LEARNING" 

  • fills the gap between their studies and the professional world

  • ​offers them an opportunity to discover themselves, out of their comfort zone, on a professional stage

  • enhances the links between knowledge, know-how, and interpersonal skills, through multi-disciplinary  teamwork

A way to consider COLLABORATION between ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS  

Through the preparation and the simulation game, collaboration between different academic partners is under way. We hope that the simulation will be a great milestone in strengthening and expanding such partnerships in Higher Education.

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A way to ENGAGE with COMMUNITIES

  • It strengthens connections between academic, economic, institutional, and non-profit actors

  • It provides an opportunity to work through the different facets of an issue by participating in conferences with experts in the field, by creating contacts with the Consulates of the represented delegation, and by coaching from lobbyists-teams with businesses, associations, and NGOs

 

A way to DEVELOP INTERNATIONAL THINKING

The project aims to reflect the “THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY,” motto. We consider that “local problems have global connections and implications, and these problems cannot be solved by individuals in a single country” (see NAIR Indira, WHITEHEAD Michele, Models of Global Learning, 2017, v).

 

Thinking globally requires both a sense of identification and enhanced creativity in problem-solving to truly think and engage in global problems.  

 

Sponsors

Sponsors

OPPORTUNITIES for SPONSORS 
 

As Sponsors, you have the opportunity to share your expertise, make an impact on our students, and shape the world of tomorrow. This partnership could be through your organization:

  • LEADING a two-hour conference on the topic  

  • COACHING two of our students by advising them on how to best represent your position in negotiations on AI and health disparities

  • SUPPORTING the recipients of the communication awards by welcoming the two top students for an internship in your organization

  • HELPING the preparation of the event through logistic supports

  • SPONSORING the event to financially support this groundbreaking educational program

BENEFITS for PARTNERS/SPONSORS
 

This project allows our partners to:

  • PARTICIPATE in a pioneering and innovative international event that has received a prestigious national award from the French Ministry of Higher Education

  • RECEIVE organizational and corporate RECOGNITION

  • EXPAND your business strategies by engaging with international stakeholders

  • Join our global partners “HALL of FAME” which includes groups such as Airbus Defense and Space Industries or Michelin

  • SUPPORT an INCLUSIVE PROJECT with a wide range of academic partners from the US, Canada, and Europe

  • STRENGTHEN your commitment and social responsibility by investing your efforts in a new generation of globally-connected and innovative students

Enrollment

FOLLOW  US

TWITTER

LEAD CHAIR - Simuvaction-AI-LEAD

BRAZIL - SimuvBRHAIM - @SimuvBRHAIM

CANADA - QUEBEC - Simuvaction_CA

FRANCE - @simuvaction_fr

GERMANY - @Simuvaction_GER

MEXIQUE - @Simuvaction_Mex

U KINGDOM - @simuUKeHealth

USA - Simuvacation_US

Stakeholders - INDUSTRIAL REPRESENTATIVE - @SimuSTKH_IndSci

Stakeholders - CIVIL SOCIETY - Simuvaction 2022 - humAnIty - @smvctn_humanity

Stakeholders -  International Organization - Simuvaction 2022 - humAnIty

Stakeholders - CHAIR STAKEHOLDER - Simuvaction-AI-Chair

Stakeholders - SOCIAL Representative - 

Stakeholders - SCIENCE Representative - @SimuSTKH_IndSci

JOURNALIST - @simuvaction_INN

Organization - Simuvaction_AI - @simuvaction-AI

ENROLL FOR IN-PERSON or ONLINE 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/simu-vaction-tickets-441025799037

FAQs
Past Events

MEDIA

From 2015 Students from Nantes University participated in a European Council simulation

In 2017, the Program won the "Passion on Teaching in Higher Education" from the French Ministry of Higher Education, Innovation and Research - the PRIX PEPS 

  • For more information on the 2018 simulation on "Bioethics and Regenerative Medicine":

Pictures Credit: Jack Wang, Alexandra Blank, Samuel Sanchez 

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Contacts

Contacts

Interested Students

Jamila R. Garrett-Bell

Project Coordinator,

Center for Ethics, Emory University,

jrgarre@emory.edu

Dr. Anne-Elisabeth Courrier

Visiting Fellow at the Center for Ethics,

Emory University,

Associate Professor in Public Law,

Political Sciences and Law Department

Nantes University

acourri@emory.edu

Potential Sponsors

Natasha Lebowitz

Director of Development

Emory University Center for Ethics 

natasha.lebowitz@emory.edu

 

Dr. Anne-Elisabeth Courrier

Visiting Fellow at the Center for Ethics, Emory University

Associate Professor in Public Law,

Political Sciences and Law department, Nantes University

acourri@emory.edu

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