Scientific committee
Marc Durand
President of the scientific committee
Marc Durand is honorary professor at the University of Geneva. He holds a doctorate in psychology from the University of Paris V - Sorbonne (France) and an Habilitation to Direct Research from the University of Montpellier (France). He is Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Louvain la neuve (Belgium).
His research, within an enactivist framework, focuses on everyday life situations (work, leisure, associative practices, artistic practices, etc.) with a view to adult education (professional training and developmental education). They contribute to an intervention program in the fields of work, art, sport and leisure. These interventions are based on analyzes of the activity of actors in situation, in order to help design promising social situations of well-being, efficiency, safety and development.
Eduardo Passos
Eduardo Passos holds a degree and a PhD in Psychology from UFRJ (1992). Consultant for the Brazilian Ministry of Health for the implementation of the National Humanization Policy of the Brazilian Unified Health System (2003-2008), for the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Program of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University (2008-2009) and for the Technical Reference Center for Psychology and Public Policy of the Federal Council of Psychology (2010-2011). He is part of the team of Brazilian researchers who translated, adapted and validated the Guide to Autonomous Medication Management, a tool created in the 1990s in Canada for social mobilization in the field of mental health. He integrates the International Observatory of Gaining autonomy & Medication Management practices: collaborative network of knowledge production, support and development. He also coordinates the research group Enativos: conhecimento e cuidado at UFF.
Fransico A. Loiola
Francisco A. Loiola, is Full Professor at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Montreal, Department of Educational Psychology.
His main research interests revolve around the teaching activity in a university context and the development of professional development devices in the context of an enactiviste perspective. They relate to the disciplinary affiliation and pedagogical reasoning of the teacher; study of conceptions of teaching and learning; study and use of "best practices" in the pedagogical training of university teachers.
Founding member of LIRES - Interdisciplinary research laboratory on higher education. Head of GRIMTÉ - International and multidisciplinary research group on enactive theories. Since 2003, he has been responsible, at the University of Montreal, for a multidisciplinary seminar aimed at lecturers and graduate students wishing to prepare for university teaching. For several years now, he has been coordinating a collaborative and interdisciplinary mechanism for the professional development of future university professors. This educational device constitutes a learning community characterized by interdisciplinary collaboration between teachers and dedicated to the development of the teaching skills of trainees from different disciplinary fields.
Germain Poizat
Germain Poizat is a professor at the University of Geneva in the field of Adult Education and Work Analysis. He heads the CRAFT Unit (Design, Research, Activity, Training, Work) and conducts research in different social and organizational contexts (e.g., nuclear industry, crisis exercises, public services, luxury industry, participatory democracy, etc.). His research falls mainly in the field of work analysis and training (while being open to other social practices). They focus on the activity and its transformations into work and / or training situations, and are characterized by being carried out under the assumptions of action and experience.
Julia San Martin
Professor of Biology and Life and Earth Sciences, Julia San Martin completes her training with studies in education and training sciences. Her work focuses on the work and training of teachers, university pedagogy and school culture by mobilizing an enactive perspective. Currently she is a lecturer at the University of Aysén (Coyhaique, Chile) and directs the "Escuela de pregrado" of this institution.
Luc Ria
Luc Ria is a university professor and director of the Institut Français de l'Éducation. Member of the ICAR - ENS Laboratory in Lyon, he has held the Unesco chair “Training teachers in the 21st century” since 2012. His studies, analyzes and models of the work of teachers and that of other education stakeholders have enabled the design of innovative professionalization measures in initial or continuing training.
Luc Ria is scientific director of the Néopass © video training program for school education [http://neo.ens-lyon.fr] and for higher education: [http://neosup.ens-lyon.fr]. President from 2016 to 2020 of the Unesco-Hamdan Prize, which recognizes internationally the most effective training systems at the international level, he is also a member of the Unesco Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030.
