Meeting of the International Panel on Social Progress, organized by Olivier Bouin, director of the Fondation RFIEA, coordinator of IPSP, with the support of the Paris IAS.

Event closed to the public.

Presentation

Following an initial meeting at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study in September 2023, the second meeting of the International Panel on Social Progress will bring together over 70 international experts (scholars, civil society actors, international organisation experts) from 30 different countries. It will be an opportunity to present the Panel's first ten working groups on the following major themes:

- Key drivers for systemic transformations” (on the formulation of a strategic and operational vision of shared, democratic and sustainable societal progress)
- Measuring what we value” (on post-GDP indicators)
- Information as a public good in the age of datafication and artificial intelligence” (on the technological, economic and regulatory conditions for information that promotes democratic debate)
- Efficient barriers against democratic backsliding” (on deepening participatory democratic practices at political, economic and social levels)
- Living wage” (on the characteristics of a fair wage for workers at all levels of development)
- Global solidarity” (on the conditions for the emergence of a global solidarity linked to a broadening of the concept of citizenship)
- Ecological Rule of Law” (on the progress of higher-level legal and regulatory frameworks to condition the decisions, actions and policies of stakeholders)
- Inspiring Behavioral Change” (on the best international examples of ‘nudging’ behavioral change in favor of social progress).

Key sponsors of the Panel are la fondation RFIEA, la Ville de Paris, the European Climate Foundation, Cornell University, the CNRS, Paris School of Economics, and the Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian.

Program

Day 1 : October 28, 2024
Académie du Climat, Salle des mariages

09:00 Opening
Registration and breakfast

9:30 - 10:00 General Welcome
Key speakers: Marie-Christine Lemardeley (Deputy-Mayor of the City of Paris), Gustavo Merino (Director MOST-UNESCO), Dennis Snower (President, Global Solutions Initiative)

10:00 - 10:30 Presentation of IPSP
Speakers: Marc Fleurbaey (Paris School of Economics, France), Hossain Zillur Rahman (Center for Power and Participation, Bangladesh), Margo Thomas (Women’s Economic Imperative, USA) How to cope with challenges and opportunities in a changing world, mobilizing collective intelligence, IPSP achievements since September 2023

10:45 - 12:45 Presentation of the first IPSP working groups
Chair: Ravi Kanbur (Cornell University)
Five-minute pitch by each working group (12) of the main themes to be dealt with.
Follow-up Q&A after each group presentations.

14:00-17:00 Working groups’ break-out sessions (Part I)
Each working group to further develop its high-level outline, refine its composition, define key outputs, work on calendar of implementation

Transfer to the Paris Institute for Advanced Study

17:30 - 18:45
Interdependent challenges and solutions: what IPSP contribution?
Chair: Marie-Laure Salles (Geneva Graduate Institute)

Day 2 : October 29, 2024
Paris Institute for Advanced Study

8:45 Welcome

9:00 - 10:00 Working groups’ break-out sessions (Part II)
Each working group synthetizes its discussion in a short document

10:00 - 10:15 Indication for the cross-working group meetings

10:15 - 12:45 Cross-working group meetings
Informal exchange to nurture collaborations across working groups

14:00 - 15: Coordinating the work of the Panel
Chairs: Pedro Conceiçao (UNDP) / Elisa Reis (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) Working group activities, IPSP collective ethos, milestones, deliverables
Open Discussion

15:45 - 17:15 Dissemination, outreach, and impact
Chairs: Ingrid Volkmer (University of Melbourne) / Merike Blofield (University of Hamburg) Events, media, mobilization
Open Discussion

17:30 – 18:00 Synthesis and next steps
Chair: Olivier Bouin (RFIEA/UBIAS) / Marc Fleurbaey (PSE/CNRS)

18:00 - End of meeting