Agenda Local Democracy Academy 2022
Day 1
Sunday, 5th of June
ALL DAY
Arrival in Stockholm
Arrival of participants in Stockholm at hotel Good Morning Arlanda
There is 24-hour transfer service to the hotel from Arlanda airport. Call +46 8 655 01 00 from the airport.
Address: Lindkrogsvägen 7, 190 60 Stockholm-Arlanda, Sweden
19:00
Registration and welcome dinner
Good Morning Hotel Arlanda
Day 2
Monday, 6th of June
Sweden’s National Day!
08:00
Departure by bus to the ferry terminal
11:30-14:40
Ferry to Visby
16:30-17:30
World Café
Maltfabriken, Uppsala University Campus Gotland
17:30-18:30
Welcome to the Academy
Uppsala University Campus Gotland
Remarks by:
Johan Lilja, Secretary General, ICLD
Jesper Skalberg-Karlsson, 1st deputy chairman of the Regional Executive Committee of Region Gotland
Olle Jansson, Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University for Campus Gotland
Introduction to the Academy:
Ana Maria Vargas, Research Director, ICLD
Introduction to the thematic sessions:
ICLD Advisory Group and Session leaders
18:30
Dinner
Maltfabriken, Uppsala University Campus Gotland
Day 3
Tuesday, 7th of June
08:30-09:00
Plenary
Uppsala University Campus Gotland
09:00-12:00
Engaging Presentations
Divided in the thematic streams, participants will make 5-minute presentations of their cases. These sessions are moderated by the session leaders.
The presentations should focus on the following questions:
What is your case about?
What was the original problem?
What methods you used to conduct research on this case?
What are the main findings in terms of local democracy: equity, participation, transparency and accountability?
What lessons could be useful for other local governments?
12:00-13:15
Lunch
Maltfabriken, Uppsala University Campus Gotland
13:15-17:30
Local Democracy Labs
Digitally from the hotel rooms
This is a space for local government officers and politicians to meet researchers and have a dialogue on issues of common interest. Local governments participate virtually this day by sending a question they want to discuss with a group of competent and leading researchers in the field of local democracy.
The format for this day is: one question, one hour, one group.
The conversations are moderated by the ICLD team. Researchers sign up to contribute with their knowledge in up to three labs.
19:00
Historical Dinner: Women in Local Democracy
Ristorante Isola Bella
The historical dinner is a storytelling movement initiated by Stockholm Museum of Women’s History to put historical women into our collective memory. We have adapted the concept and would like to invite all participants and session leaders to share a 3-minute story about a historical woman they would like the world to know about. We invite you to share the story of a women that in your opinion has been important for local democracy research and practice.
Day 4
Wednesday, 8th of June
08:30-09:00
Swedish Development Cooperation: challenges and opportunities to build democracy from below
Remarks by Staffan Smedby, Head of Sida’s Unit for Democracy and Human Rights
Uppsala University Campus Gotland
09:00-12:00
Thematic Sessions: Paper discussions (Part 1)
Within the thematic streams, each researcher is given time to present their paper and recieve feedback from fellow group members. The emphasis is on discussion. The session is led by the session leaders.
There will be a coffee break between 9:45 – 10:15.
12:00-13:00
Lunch
Maltfabriken, Uppsala University Campus Gotland
13:00-16:00
Parallel Training Session on case-based writing (Group A)
In this session, you will learn about the teaching case method, specifically as it relates to writing case studies. With the teaching case method, case studies are assigned before a class discussion to tell a story relevant to the participants’ experiences or future responsibilities. The case is used to anchor concepts that the educator would like to teach, to provide a common setting and situation in which to base the class discussion, to provide the situation in a story form that keeps the attention of the class and helps participants retain learning, to stimulate engaging class discussions, and to tie learnings to future decisions and actions. Part of this session will be a workshop for you to outline an idea for writing a case study. These outlines can be used to pitch your case study idea to ICLD, which has set aside funding for case writing projects in the thematic areas of the academy.
This session is conducted by Lisa Cox, senior writer and editor for the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, where she works with faculty and staff to write, edit, and shepherd content—such as books, case studies, videos, and articles—through production and publication.
This time is reserved for participants of group A which includes the following sessions:
Climate action
Transformative local governments
Digital services
Tactical urbanism
There will be a coffee break between 14:30 – 15:00.
Parallel Writing Session for Thematic Policy Briefs (Group B)
During this session participants and session leaders will meet in their thematic groups and draft comparative policy briefs, based on innovative policies for local democracy linked to their themes (climate action, feminist cities, etc). This session is moderated by the session leaders. Participants should think in advance about one or two policies they would like to propose for the comparative policy brief. These could be policies they have studied themselves or policies studied by other scholars. Bring the relevant papers that provide the background to the policy you would like to suggest. During this session you should also choose one policy that they believed could make the world a more democratic place and choose one of the participants to present it at the Almedalen panel on the 9th of June.
This time is reserved for participants of group B which includes the following sessions:
Feminist cities
Child friendly cities
Equitable health
Participatory budget
There will be a coffee break between 14:30 – 15:00.
17:00-19:00
Bike Tour of Gotland (optional)
Meeting spot Best Western Strand Hotel
Guided tour on rental bikes of the Hanseatic town of Visby and its beautiful surroundings. Historical anecdotes and breathtaking views will be provided, whereas a certain habit of biking is advised.
19:00
Outside dinner: Eathai food truck
Seafront promenade
Day 5
Thursday, 9th of June
08:30-09:00
Plenary
Uppsala University Campus Gotland
Presentation on local authorities and cross-sector engagement for sustainability certifications by Linnéa Engström, Program Director of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).
09:00-12:00
Thematic Sessions: paper discussion (Part 2)
12:00-13:00
Lunch
Maltfabriken, Uppsala University Campus Gotland
13:00-16:00
Parallel Training Session on case-based writing (Group B)
See description above.
This session is reserved for participants and session leaders of group B which includes the following sessions:
Feminist cities
Child friendly cities
Equitable health
Participatory budget
Parallel Writing Session for Thematic Policy Briefs (Group A)
See description above.
This time is reserved for participants of group A which includes the following sessions:
Climate action
Transformative local governments
Digital services
Tactical urbanism
16:30-18:00
“If Researchers Ruled our Cities”
Almedalen Park, Visby
Almedalen is the name of historical park in the centre of Visby. It became famous because Olof Palme, a Swedish prime minister started to make political speeches there since the end of the 1960s. Nowadays, all political parties in Sweden meet in Visby for a week in July and use the Almedalen park to present their key political proposals. At the academy, we will challenge the researchers to take the roll of politicians for one day and prepare lively speeches to propose one policy that could change the world, based on their thematic sessions.
The event is livestreamed and open to the public: LINK
18:30
Foodtruck dinner, games and perhaps an evening swim?
Almedalen park, Visby
Day 6
Friday, 10th of June
08:30-09:00
Plenary
Uppsala Universitet Campus Gotland
09:00-12:00
After the Labs: brainstorming joint research proposals
12:00-13:00
Final plenary, evaluation and conclusion
An award ceremony will conclude this year’s Local Democracy Academy, celebrating the best conference paper.
The winning work will be selected on four main criteria: innovativeness; relevance to local governments; quality of the methodology; and the level of impact to which the research contributes.
The selecting jury is made up of ICLD’s Advisory Group, comprised of accomplished researchers from some of the world’s top universities.
13:00-14:00
Lunch
Maltfabriken, Uppsala University Campus Gotland
16:00
Ferry to Stockholm
Day 7
Saturday, 11th of June
ALL DAY
Departure from Stockholm
Participants departs from Sweden.