What is a hybrid forum?
Hybrid forums are spaces for public dialogue among people with different interests, backgrounds, and positions.
During a hybrid forum, people from a local community have the possibility to exchange their perspectives, experiences, and knowledge with each other. Participants to the panel will first meet together and discuss; They can ask questions, listen to each other’s ideas and see a topic from different and perhaps new angles. The different points of view and what has been conversed will be made available to a broader audience later on, when the panel opens the public dialogue where anybody can come. This means that a hybrid forum can be enriching for the participants to the panel and also for those who can learn from, and participate to, the discussion from various viewpoints. This may be particularly important for policymakers and researchers, but also lay people to gain multiple insights into a topic important for the local community.
The hybrid forums in the Food2Gather project aimed at better understand and deepen the topic of food, migration and public spaces. You can read more about the hybrid forums in the different countries below.
Norway
| Country | HF Title/ date |
| Norway OsloMet | Food waste and leftover food , Thursday 14 October 2021 OsloMet, Clara Holst hus room 314, Oslo |
Germany
| Country | HF Title/ date |
| Germany | Impossible to organise the Hybrid Forum which was originally planned with two partners, REFUEAT and Ueber den Tellerrand. Unfortunately, various reasons impeded the realization of that event. |
The idea of the Hybrid Forum in Germany was conceived to shed light on the role of civil society associations in supporting the sustainability of migrants and refugees’ lives and their participation in the public space. The focus was on initiatives that underscore the culinary skills of newcomers as means of securing both a livelihood through integration to markets (i.e. small food business, culinary jobs, etc.) and social inclusion through newcomers’ sustained input in sociability networks and social events (cooking events, food festivals, etc.)
Netherlands
| Country | HF Title/ date |
| Netherlands | A Sense of Home: A Seat at the Table, Amsterdam 3rd July 2020 |
Belgium
France
Italy
Would you like to learn more about hybrid forums?
You can read more about the other experiences of food-related hybrid forums you can check out the website of the Strenght2Foodproject.
Check out these publications:
- Amilien, V., Tocco, B., Strandbakken, P., 2019. At the heart of controversies: Hybrid forums as an experimental multi-actor tool to enhance sustainable practices in localized agro-food systems. British Food Journal.
- Callon, M., Lascoumes, P., Barthe, Y., 2009. Acting in an uncertain world: An essay on technical democracy. MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England.