The hybrid CollPan symposium entitled "Deepening common ground, expanding ideas" brought together a good 25 researchers from the CollPan consortium on site in Bochum and an additional 15 people online, providing a platform for intensive dialogue and the further development of innovative ideas. The event brought together experts from various fields to discuss current challenges and forward-looking solutions.
The symposium began with a series of flash talks on the latest research results from the projects. These brief insights provided a valuable basis for impulses and subsequent discussions with those present in person and the online community.
In the further course of the symposium, two workshops were held in the spirit of the qualitative survey. The first workshop, entitled "Interventions", focussed on intervention measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. The participants had the opportunity to engage intensively with the concepts presented in two rounds and discuss their application in practice. The workshop was led by Arndt Bialobrzeski (UK Bonn).
The second workshop was entitled "Contents and functionalities of a dashboard for the protection of vulnerable groups in crisis situations". In this workshop, a special focus was placed on the development and optimisation of dashboards or similar data tools that can contribute to the protection of vulnerable groups in times of crisis. Sophie Klopfenstein and Jan-Carlo Schmid from Berlin encouraged the participants to think about stakeholders, content, functionalities and challenges of such tools and summarised the initial results afterwards.
The symposium offered all participants numerous opportunities for networking and intensive dialogue on the topics presented. The diversity of the ideas presented and the depth of the discussions contributed significantly to initiating new collaborations and multipliers.
We would like to thank all speakers and participants for their valuable contributions and are already looking forward to the next symposium at the end of 2024, then again in Berlin!