ESF-ZWM Seminar: Future Leaders in European Science Policy and Research

The ESF-ZWM Seminar took place in Strasbourg, France, on 5-7 February 2009.

This short course was aimed at highly-qualified early-career research administrators and research scientists from ESF Member Organisations and similar backgrounds. It was jointly run by the European Science Foundation and the ZWM (Centre for Research and Science Management, Speyer) in order to to broaden the skills and experience of the participants, and to reinforce the skills base available to research organisations and the ERA, both individually and collectively.

For further information, please contact:

 

Ms.IsabelleMayE-Mail
Senior Administrator

European Science Foundation, Strasbourg

 PROGRAMME

 Future Leaders in European Science Policy and Research

friday 6 February 2009, 8.00– 17.00 hrs.

Session 1 - 8.00-12.45 - Chair: Marja Makarow

Between cooperation and competition: the  relationship between national and European research funding systems

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Professor Dieter Imboden

Swiss National Science Foundation, SNSF, CH

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Deputy Director General Anneli Pauli

European Commission, EC

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Professor Bernd Huber

League of European Research Universities, LERU

Infrastructure, an interface between disciplines, regions and academia/industry 

 

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Professor Felicitas Pauss

European Organisation for Nuclear Research-CERN,CH

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Professor Iain Mattaj

European Molecular Biology Laboratory - EMBL, DE

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Dr. Gerhard Kratky

The Austrian Science Fund -FWF, AT


Session 2 - 14.00-17.00 -  Chair: Hanns Seidler

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High Quality Tools: Peer Review and bibliometry

Dr. Sybille Hinze

Institute for Research and Quality Assurance

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Research Integrity: Good Scientific practice vs. scientific misconduct

Professor Ulrike Beiseigel

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG - Ombudsman, DE

After dinner speech

      

Science for Society

Professor Marc van Montagu

Institute Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries, Ghent University, BE


saturday 7 February 2009, 9.30– 13.45 hrs.


Session 3 -  Chair: Professor Dieter Imboden

 Modernisation of governance of universities and research organisations

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Professor Hanns Seidler

Center for Science and Research Management- ZWM-Speyer, DE

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Dr. Reinhard Grunwald (presented by Professor Hanns Seidler)

Center for Science and Research Management - ZWM-Speyer, DE


Creativity: Structure vs. Chaos - fostering in novel-types of research institutes

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Professor Hans-Georg Kräusslich

Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, DE

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Professor Marja Makarow

ESF and University of Helsinki, FI


Concluding discussion and feedback from participants

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Dr. Beate Scholz

Consultant in Training and Careers, DE