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Dear colleagues<br>
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We would like to call on your attention to the group-assembly process (GAP) taking place at the 4th International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity and invite you to be an important part of this mind-opening process. The GAP process in Leipzig will be a major democratic experiment: a process where many conference participants - practitioners, artists, policy-makers, activists and scientists - equally discuss different issues of degrowth debate in a three-day in-depth-process. We are aiming at having high quality, outcome-oriented discussions, able to push forward the degrowth debate in academia and society.<br>
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The GAP process offers therefore a good opportunity to deepen the discussions of your panel.<br>
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Below you can find more information about what is GAP and what a stirring paper should look like. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us via <a href="mailto:gap@degrowth.de" target="_blank">gap@degrowth.de</a>. We are happy to hear from your proposals to engage in the collective construction of the degrowth debate and movement!<br>
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The GAP organising committee,<br>
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Andrea Vetter<br>
Filka Sekulova<br>
Fran�ois Schneider<br>
Gualter Baptista<br>
Matthias Schmelzer<br>
Susanne Brehm<br>
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What is the Group Assembly Process (GAP)?<br>
The Group Assembly Process (GAP) is an outcome-oriented three-day working process among participants at the degrowth conference. It aims at establishing an exchange between scientists, practitioners, artists, �policy-makers and activists. The goal is on the one hand to develop concrete proposals for a degrowth society in a common process of collective and democratic consensus building. On the other hand we want �to map existing areas of dissent and open questions for debate and research.<br>
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What is a stirring paper?<br>
A stirring paper is a short and comprehensible text that will serve as inspiration for a working group in the GAP-process. Scientists, practitioners, artists and activists alike are invited to submit stirring papers.They should be aimed at introducing new proposals or debates for a certain aspect of degrowth and at stirring discussions that are also relevant to non-scientists. A stirring paper should summarise the discussions and key arguments of the issues raised, it can be polemic and should be easily understandable. It should have <a href="tel:1000" value="+661000" target="_blank">1000</a> to <a href="tel:1500" value="+661500" target="_blank">1500</a> words. Stirring papers can be submitted until February 31, 2014. Authors should be able and willing to participate in the working group during all three days, and ideally join preliminary discussions of the online working group.<br>
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The �submitted abstracts for stirring papers will be selected and grouped into working groups by �the conference organizers in collaboration with Research & Degrowth and then be subjected to an open peer review process.<br>
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For further information check <a href="http://leipzig.degrowth.org/en/gap" target="_blank">http://leipzig.degrowth.org/<u></u>en/gap</a><br>
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Nina Treu<br>
Programme Coordinator<br>
Degrowth 2014<br>
W <a href="http://www.degrowth.de" target="_blank">www.degrowth.de</a><br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..</b></div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a>� - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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