The FJIDI forms part of CIDOB's Intercultural Dynamics Programme, and initially came about in 2004 as the Doctorate Students' Forum with the aim of creating a space for exchanging ideas and tools (perspectives, methodology and bibliography) between researchers undergoing training.
It is organised around fortnightly discussion sessions conceived by the participants themselves, as well as extraordinary sessions featuring an invited specialist or small debate seminars.
Some of the guests that have attended the Forum include Marc Augé, Javier de Lucas, Manuel Cruz, Manuel Delgado, Enrique Dussel, Carles Feixa, Carlos Giménez, Ulf Hannerz, Jesús Martín Barbero, Ricardo Menéndez Salmón, Pere Portabella, Danilo Martuccelli, Mary Nash, John Rex and Armando Silva.
Training Seminar
This is the central event of the Forum, and was created with the aim of constituting a space for: collective reflection and facilitating visibility for Young researchers; as a space for training where young researchers can compare methodologies, conclusions, and to enable (through discussion and reviewing) their subsequent publication.
The subjects are proposed by the Forum members, which are in turn commissioned of their own volition, and selection is carried out by an ad hoc scientific committee which is subsequently responsible for managing each of the panels. The Forum itself is responsible for a prior work of discussion and analysis of the addresses that are selected, and their subsequent publication.
