Thirty-one higher education institutions in Lyon, and neighboring St. Etienne, France are organizing themselves into eight academic colleges. These latter are: • Arts, culture, design, architecture • Lettres, Langues, Philosophie • Sciences sociales • Droit, économie, gestion • Education, cognition, langage (EduCoLa) • Sciences formelles et de la nature • Sciences de la vie et de la santé • Ingénierie et technologie The goal of these academic colleges is to collectively elaborate, and share informa- tion that falls into the perimeter of the college, in order to develop synergies between disciplines. This information includes undergraduate and graduate degrees, national evaluations of these degrees and of research structures, and definitions of new teach- ing and research positions at the different higher education institutions. In addition, on the basis of these evaluations and on emerging research themes, each academic college is currently building a prospective document (limited to 10 pages) that will develop the strategic project of the college. It will include goals concerning teach- ing, research, international collaborations, professional training, how the college’s disciplines can contribute to environmental concerns, and propositions for establish- ing relations with local and national organizations involving the development of innovation, research, and teaching. Finally, the prospective document will contain propositions for putting together proposals that will potentially be funded by the French government, should Lyon succeed as one of the cities granted in late 2017 the status of initiative of excellence (IDEX). I am the coordinator of EduCoLa, a college that includes the academic disciplines involved in educational, cognitive, and language sciences and am organizing the writing of this prospective document, involving around 15 people that represent (often in a directorship capacity) a selection of teaching and research structures in the Lyon and St. Etienne regions. We have a first working committee meeting in mid October and we have funding to organize a workshop that should also contribute to writing the document. I can share the analysis I performed of our scientific perime- ter in order to orient consensual decisions about committee representativeness and the issues that were raised during the initial writing of our prospective document, based on methods that I hope to implement. That said, if I can attend the Swiss Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Day 2016, I hope to gain insight on how I can better design the process in order to deliberatively frame our prospective document so that the different disciplines and stakeholders are adequately represented. In addition, it could be interesting to develop methods to compare strategies across academic colleges.