Minutes of Third Plenary Session

Cross-cutting themes:

In the first part of the meeting the concept of collaboration was explained and illustrated with the slides you see below. From now onwards all participants should work on two levels:

• Level 1: Detailing of your own case study
• Level 2: Identifying cross-cutting themes between similar case studies. Similar case studies are now clustered in Working Groups.

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  Case studies are clustered in Working Groups under an umbrella theme
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  Try to identify common questions, problems, methods. This is an idealised images, not all cross-cutting themes have to be found in a case studies of a working group.
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  Having identified and discussed the themes we recommend you distribute the responsibility for each themes in the group. However, everyone is still free to add information to each theme.
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  The seminar outputconsists of and individual and a group part, namely the case study with individual authorship and a group report on the cross-cutting themes.

Work Process until the end of December:

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  Until 3rd of December
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  Working group meeting on the 3rd of December
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  Until 10th of December
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  10th of December: short working group meeting
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  17th of December: last working group meeting before Christmas break

Presentations:

Unfortunately, the invited speakers Martha Fajardo and Vicotria Solis could not attend this evening for health reasons. This presentation is postphoned to January 2009. Instead, we had the pleasure to listen to Camilo Calderon and his case study on slum upgrading in Medellin/Colombia.

Technical Problems: Some participants could not enter the room due to server errors. We assume that this was due to missing seats in the VITERO room and the system did not adapt in time. For the coming session we will provided a maximum size in advance hoping that this problem will no longer occur.