European Commission

Welcome by: Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General Research and Innovation (chair), Brussels, Belgium

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• Opening Session ( 214KB).

Keynote address by:

• Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Brussels, Belgium
• Morten Østergaard, Danish EU Presidency, Higher Education and Research Minister
• Torsten Wiesel, President Emeritus Rockefeller University, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1981, USA

Chair: Anneli Pauli, Deputy Director General, Research and Innovation, Innovation and ERA, Brussels, Belgium

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• The ERA Partnership: Progress to date and next steps ( 423KB).

Speakers:

• Bjarne Kirsebom, Vice-Chair ERAC, Chief Advisor for International and European Affairs, Ministry of Education and Research, Sweden
• Volker Rieke, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, DG for European and International cooperation in Education and Research, Germany
• Sir Keith O'Nions, Rector of Imperial College, United Kingdom
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  • The ERA - A Perspective from Imperial College ( 526KB).
• Paul Boyle, President of Science Europe, United Kingdom
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  • The ERA Partnership: Perspectives of National Research Organisations ( 848KB).
• Anna Sjöström Douagi, Director of Swedish Young Academy, Sweden
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  • The future ERA – some views from the Young Academy of Sweden ( 1.18MB).

Moderator: Achilleas Mitsos, chair of the Economists groups assessing the socio-economic impact of ERA, Greece

Panellists:

• Andrea Bonaccorsi, Professor of Economics and Management at the University of Pisa, ANVUR member of the board, ANVUR member of the board, Italy
• André Sapir, Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Senior Fellow at Bruegel
• Daria Tataj, Member of EIT Executive Committee, Founder EMF Consultancy and Professor at Warsaw University of Technology Business School, Poland
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  • The European Institute of Innovation & Technology ( 698KB).
• Jan van den Biesen, Vice President & Director Public R&D Programs at Philips, representing BusinessEurope, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Fostering Efficiency, Excellence and Growth: From the Public Consultation towards the Completion of ERA ( 535KB).

Moderator: Hans Müller Pedersen, Chair of the High Level Group for Joint Programming, Deputy Director General, Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, Denmark

Speakers:

• Octavi Quintana Trias, Director European Research Area: outcome of the consultation / key messages, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Cross-border operation of research actors - Outcome of the Consultation and Key Messages ( 385KB).
• Wolfgang Marquardt, Chair of the German Council of Science and Humanities (The Wissenschaftsrat), Germany
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  • Cross-border Operation of Research Actors ( 123KB).
• Tatjana Volkova, former Rector BA School of Business and Finance, former President of Rector’s Conference of Latvia
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  • Cross-border operation of research actors: case of Latvia ( 599KB).

Moderator: Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph, Chair of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), Germany

Speakers:

• Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, Director Health, European Commission : outcome of the consultation/ key messages, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Research Infrastructures: Outcome of the Consultation and Key Messages ( 668KB).
• Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director General of CERN, Switzerland
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  • Research Infrastructures - Key Messages - Key Issues ( 2MB).
• Gudmund Host, e-IRG chair, Norway
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  • e-Infrastructures supporting ERA ( 825KB).

Moderator: Martin Hynes, CEO of European Science Foundation (ESF), France

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• Researchers – Why the European Research Area? ( 610KB).

Speakers:

• Stefaan Hermans, Head of Unit Skills, European Commission: outcome of the consultation / key , Brussels, Belgium
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  • Researchers: Outcome of the consultation and Key Messages ( 470KB).
• Vanessa Diaz, University College London, Department for Mechanical Engineering, United Kingdom
• Marisa Alonso Núñez, EURODOC, (European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers), United Kingdom
• EURAXESS Ambassadors:
  Karin Kase, Head of Communications, Archimedes Foundation, EURAXESS, Estonia
  Neven Duic, Head of Power Engineering and Energy Management Chair Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zagreb. Euraxess Ambassador, Croatia

Discussion

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Wider obstacles to attracting and retaining research talent ( 341KB).

Moderator: Georg Buchtela, Technology Chair of the ERAC Group on Knowledge Transfer, Austria

Speakers:

• Kirsi Haavisto, Deputy Head of Unit Innovation policyPolicy, European Commission: outcome of the consultation / key messages, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Knowledge Circulation : Knowledge Transfer ( 412KB).
• Pat Frain, Executive Board Member, ProTon Europe, Ireland
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  • Knowledge Transfer ( 982KB).
• Helena Malmqvist, Head of external research collaborations /ABB Corporate Research Center, Sweden
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  • Knowledge Transfer perspective on Research ( 194KB).
• Lena Tsipouri, University of Athens, Member of I4G, Greece
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  • Knowledge Circulation: Knowledge Transfer ( 396KB).

Moderator: Riitta Mustonen, Forum for International Science and Technology Cooperation (SFIC), Finland

Speakers:

• Sigi Gruber, Head Of Unit D2, Relations with third countries, outcome of the consultation / key messages, Brussels, Belgium
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  • International Dimension of ERA Outcome of the Consultation and Key Messages ( 465KB).
• Charles Mgone, Executive Director, European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), Netherlands
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  • International dimension: need to tackle jointly societal challenges ( 179KB).
• Sylvia Schwaag Serger, Executive Director International Strategy & Networks, Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA), Sweden
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  • International dimension of ERA : need to tackle jointly the societal challenges? ( 772KB).

Moderator: Sijbolt Noorda, President of the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), Netherlands

Speakers:

• Gilles Laroche, Head of Unit Ethics and Gender, European Commission: outcome of the consultation / key messages, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Knowledge cirulation: Open Access Outcome of the Consultation and Key Messages ( 349KB).
• Ilaria Capua , Director of Virology Department and of International Reference Laboratories, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Italy
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  • Data sharing to fight emerging infectious diseases ( 1.32MB).
• Alma Swan, Director Key Perspectives Ltd, United Kingdom
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  • Open Access by 2020? ( 760KB).

Moderator: Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General Research and Innovation, Brussels, Belgium

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• Concluding session ( 273KB).

Speakers:

• Olli Rehn, Vice-President of the European Commission, Commissioner for Economic and monetary affairs and the Euro, Brussels, Belgium
• Anne Glover, EU Chief Scientific Adviser, Brussels Belgium
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  • The European Research Area - Getting where we want to be ( 121KB).
• Maria Da Graça Carvalho, European Parliament, Member of ITRE Committee, Brussels, Belgium
• Costas Iacovou, Director of Planning at Planning Bureau, Cyprus