About

Simulation - Innovation - Action

The SIMUVACTION project is organized under the auspices of France-Atlanta. 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, 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.

* SIMULATION (Wednesday, April 9, 2025):

AI, the Universal Right to Work, and the “AI-enhanced worker”:

an Equitable Future for All?

If AI devices and implants are to be used to boost productivity and create “AI enhanced workers” in a context of uneven internet connectivity and resource scarcity, what actionable recommendations should be made to mitigate the economic and social disparities on the global job market?

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 inequities does not, in fact, increase such disparities?

The project is designed for students, especially graduate students, who with the help of academia, private and non-profit sectors, NGOs and associations, and Consulates and Embassies, will write, debate and vote actionable recommendations by 5 pm on the "D-day".

* SYMPOSIUM (Thursday, April 10, 2025):

De/re-Skilling with AI –

Why bother with learning if I have AI? What is the role, the point of humans?

if AI can help us compute, plan and organize, predict, and prevent, read, take notes, synthesize, write emails or speeches, explain and translate, draw, create art and visuals, evaluate, and monitor activities, why bother learning? What is the role, the point of humans?

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

Kick-Off Meeting: January 20, 2025

Stage 1 - January 20-March 4: Zoom Conferences from 12 pm to 2 pm EST/ 18.00 to 20.00 CET

Stage 2 - February 24- April 5: Role assignment - teams of 2 students - play roles and prepare for D-day (research their assigned positions and roles, attend Zoom meetings, post on social media, write a position paper

Stage 3 -April 6-April 11: 5 days in Quebec City, Canada - In-person attendance to all events, is mandatory.

WHAT IS the PROGRAM during STAGE 3?

Arrival for International Students in Quebec City - Université Laval -
April 7 (9-1 p.m.): First session of Negotiation exercises
April 8 (9-1 pm): Second Session of Negotiation exercises
April 9 (8.30 am to 6. pm): the ACTION-DAY!
April 10 - Symposium

REGISTRATION

Your enrollment must be approved by one of your professors and mentioned to Dr. Courrier

Partners and Stakeholders

2024-2025

Objectves & Benefits

Objectives:
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.

An exercise 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, ways to do and ways to be, 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.