2 seminars in one congress / two continents in one city :

The whole congress was organized around 2 simultaneous seminars allowing specialized debates and contributions; while the plenary sessions and the various social occasions offered a unique occasion for the participants and speakers to break the 'speciality borders' by meeting Transatlantic experts or operators coming from totally different background and sectors.

Main outlines :

Each seminar was composed of 4 panels plus conclusions and proposals, while each panel was composed of 3 to 6 speakers with a European/American balance accounted on a seminar as a whole (not necessarily panel by panel).
The provisional program indicated a few weeks before the congress was more precisely the expectations of the organizers and the deliverables that participants might have expected and definitely helped speakers to identify precisely their specific input.

Each theme gave matter to a preparatory Internet debate, launched at the beginning of 2002, and moderated by Politalks (which successfully ensured the moderation of the Sept 11th - Transatlantic Response list, that was put up between September and December 2001, and which brought together some 500 participants from both continents).

At the end of the event, each theme gave matter to a presentation structured around three parts :
- Part 1 : common envisageable orientations
- Part 2 : common concrete actions to implement
- Part 3 : themes of divergence and means of follow-up.