Interested Students

SIMUVACTION© on AI 2026:
AI and Education on a Global Stage
Paris, Versailles,
March 22-27, 2026

About

Simulation - Innovation - Action
SIMUVACTION consists of TWO main events:
- a simulation
- a symposium
* A SIMULATION (Wednesday, March 25, 2026):
Would you like to experience being a Head of Government, Journalist, or Stakeholders? Do you want to see how YOU can impact negotiations? Would you like to draft an international level recommendation report 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 !
SIMUVACTION is an opportunity for 40 university students from across the world to actively engage, practice, and contribute to an exercise of global governance on AI. Students, coming from different fields, universities, backgrounds, and countries will train for 14 weeks through a common course in which they will receive the support of professional partners.
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WHO ?
International and interdisciplinary student teams, typically composed of two participants, including graduate students from diverse backgrounds.
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WHAT ?
Each team is assigned a role—such as national delegates, journalists, or stakeholders—and engages in a simulation where they research, debate, draft a text, amend, and vote on actionable policy recommendations.
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WHEN ?
From January 12, 2026 to April 24, 2026 - The entire process culminates on the designated “D-Day,” with the challenge to submit the final adopted recommendations by 5:00 PM (see the timeline below).
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WHERE ?
Supported by a network of academic institutions, NGOs, associations, private and non-profit sectors, diplomatic teams, Simuvaction is organized online except for a week where we meet in person.
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WHY ?
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To discuss together on AI global governance
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To learn and experiment professional skills
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To be out of our comfort zone, and build our character
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To thrive together, and realize that beyond our differences in cultures, countries, background, fields of study, we can build together, think globally and act locally
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After attending Zoom conferences, preparing the roles they are assigned, students will meet in-person for a five-days session - 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.
International and interdisciplinary student teams, composed of two participants each, are assigned specific roles such as national delegates, journalists, or stakeholders. Immersed in their roles, these teams are expected to research, debate, draft, amend, and vote on one of the most pressing ethical challenges in artificial intelligence: how can we ensure that AI does not inadvertently exacerbate disparities on a global stage?
This EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PROGRAM is primarily designed for graduate students. With support from academic institutions, private and non-profit organizations, NGOs, associations, and diplomatic entities such as Consulates and Embassies, participants will collaboratively develop and vote on actionable policy recommendations by 5:00 PM on the designated "D-Day."
* A SYMPOSIUM (Thursday, March 26, 2026):
AI and Education
Partners and Stakeholders
2024-2025

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"
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fills the gap between their studies and the professional world
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offers them an opportunity to discover themselves, out of their comfort zone, on a professional stage
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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.

A way to ENGAGE with COMMUNITIES
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It strengthens connections between academic, economic, institutional, and non-profit actors
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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.
Timeline

In enrolling for this program, students must accept the role they are assigned, attend the conferences and the virtual/in-person events, 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 12, 2026
Stage 1 - January 12 - February 23: Zoom Conferences from 12 pm to 2 pm EST/ 18.00 to 20.00 CET
Stage 2 - February 16- March 21: Role assignment - teams of 2 students - play roles, meet other teams, draft the final text, post on social media, do the assignments
Stage 3 -March 22-March 27: 5 days in Paris-Versailles - In-person attendance to all events, is mandatory.
Stage 4 - April 24, 2026 (via Zoom)

WHAT IS the PROGRAM during STAGE 3?
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Arrival for International Students in Paris on Sunday, March 22 at the latest
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Monday, March 23 (9-1 p.m.): Negotiation exercises - and team activities in the afternoon
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Tuesday, March 24 (9-1 pm): Negotiation exercises
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Wednesday, March 25 (8.30 am to 6. pm): the ACTION-DAY!
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Thursday, March 26 - Symposium
REGISTRATION
Your enrollment must be approved by one of your professors at your Home University and clearly mentioned to Dr. Courrier
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Frequently asked questions
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Simuvaction on AI - 2025 - OBVIA, Université laval,
Québec, Canada
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See the video: https://youtu.be/lT8eLupGLR0
SIMUVACTION on AI 2024 - Emory University,
Atlanta, USA
* See the slideshow with pictures -
* See the video
* See the clip -
* See the article published on the Website of the University Federale Santa Cantarina, Brazil - for the first participation of a Brazilian University to Simuvaction and celebration of our student Suliane Motta
SIMUVACTION on AI 2022 - Emory University
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see "The best kind of challenging, Emory students join international simulation to debate AI and health inequities" in The EMORY REPORT, January 2023
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see "Simuvaction 2022- Intelligence Artificielle et Ethique", in La FRANCE AUX ETATS-UNIS, Consulat Général de France à Atlanta, Decembre 2022


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
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The 2018 simulation on "Bioethics and Regenerative Medicine" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUVTnHdD7cU


Pictures Credit: Jack Wang, Alexandra Blank, Samuel Sanchez, Olivier Menard

Contacts

Interested Students
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
Potential Sponsors
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
