[mch2021-orga] CfP & PhDs ; -) (was: Call for Comments on Call for Papers)

[Jeroen van der Ham]

Hi,


> On 5 May 2020, at 15:28, Patrice Riemens <patrice at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Encouraging PhD students and assorted academic researchers run their own 'village' - or ghetto - does not appear to me to be a very 'smart' move in these circumstances. On the contrary, let the academics run wild in the MCH camp and discover that there is everything they believe an established research/higher education institution is uniquely about happens there too, and often to a beter outcome.

At the last event I organised a half-day workshop by academics, announced openly, and explicitly not just for academics. The whole point of that track was to show what academics are up to, how research works, share some results, try to understand some experiments that they did.
Having that track announced explicitly and in one place made it very visible to curious visitors who wanted to learn more.

I have personally heard from all speakers at the academic track that they roamed the villages the rest of the day and were very much inspired by what was going on.

The whole idea of this academic track is to break down the ivory tower and reach out, both ways.

Jeroen.