Research meets practice – one question, one hour

AIMday offers an informal, personal, and purposeful format for building connections, exchanging knowledge, and generating ideas for collaborative projects.

The City of Stockholm sets the agenda for the day by submitting questions related to challenges within its operations. Each question is discussed for one hour in a group of no more than ten people, including researchers from different academic disciplines and representatives from the City of Stockholm that submitted the question. To ensure that AIMday Sustainable Consumption is valuable for all participants, we work in several stages, starting a few months in advance.

Step 1: City of Stockholm submit questions
In September, employees of the City of Stockholm will have the opportunity to submit one or more questions linked to challenges they would like to discuss with researchers. The registration of questions from the City of Stockholm is coordinated internally, and a link will be sent out to employees who wish to submit a question.

Step 2: Researchers register their interest in specific questions
The submitted questions are compiled and presented to researchers at the website. As a researcher at KTH, Karolinska Institutet, and Stockholm University you register for the question(s) you would like to discuss. Signing up for at least one question is your entry ticket.

Step 3: Matching questions and researchers into small groups
Based on which questions researchers have signed up for, we form a group of researchers and employees from the City of Stockholm for a one-hour workshop. The schedule is designed to ensure active participation during the day and to create interdisciplinary group constellations.

If too few researchers have signed up for a question, we actively seek relevant participants or work with the City of Stockholm to reformulate the question so it better matches available expertise. If this is not possible, we inform the City of Stockholm. About two weeks before AIMday Sustainable Consumption, all participants receive a personalised schedule.

Step 4: The event day – 3 December
Each question is discussed for exactly one hour — no more, no less — in a group of around five to ten participants. The programme also includes time for networking and following up on group discussions. Please note that workshops will be conducted primarily in Swedish; however, you are welcome to speak English if you prefer.