The first ESF Science Policy Conference & Assembly was held in Strasbourg on 28-30 November 2007. The Science Policy Conference was dedicated to the European Research Area. The programme and speakers presentations are below for information.
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- Mrs.JoanneGoetzE-Mail
- Senior Administrator - Governance and Database Management
Maison de la Région Alsace, Strasbourg
PROGRAMME
Wednesday 28 November, 13.30 – 19.30 hrs.
Is ERA a first step to GLOREA (Global Research Area)? The ERA from an international perspective
13.30- 15.30 Session 1: Opening
Ian Halliday, ESF President | |
Mary Minch, Director of International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Research, European Commission | |
Colin Blakemore, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Warwick, and Chief Executive of the UK Medical Research Council until October 2007 - The role of national funding agencies in the creation of the ERA | |
Michal Kleiber, President, Polish Academy of Sciences - Competition and Cooperation in the ERA: a view from Poland |
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-17.30 Session 2: International views on the ERA
Thomas A. Weber, Director, Office of International Science & Engineering, National Science Foundation (NSF), United States - An outsider's view of ERA, is it a reality, a dream or even possible! | |
Jianguo Han, Director General, Bureau of International Cooperation, National Natural Science Foundation of China - Think ERA, Think China | |
Jean-François Girard, President, Institute for Development Research (IRD), France - Research in international development |
17.30-18.00 Session 3 - Part 1: ERA in an international context: A view from science
Gerald Haug, Geological Institute, ETH Zürich |
18.00-18.30 Snack & Light Refreshments
18.30-19.30 Session 4: ESF “Showcase”
This session aims at giving the floor to the ESF Standing Committees and Expert Boards and Committees. Chairs of ESF Committees will engage on their views on the ERA and how ESF and its structures have contributed and could contribute more. The discussion will be led by Quentin Cooper, science journalist with BBC Radio 4.
- Roberto Ambrosini, Italy, Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies (CRAF)
- John Coakley, Ireland, Standing Committee for the Social Sciences (SCSS)
- Brian Fulton, United Kingdom, Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC)
- Liselotte Højgaard, Denmark, Standing Committee for the Medical Research Councils (EMRC)
- Lars Horn, Norway, Marine Board - ESF
- Michel Mareschal, Belgium, Standing Committee for Physical and Engineering Sciences
- Gretty Mirdal, Denmark, Standing Committee for the Humanities
- Carlo Alberto Ricci, Italy, European Polar Board
- Alex Quintanilha, Portugal, Standing Committee for Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Jean-Pierre Swings, Belgium, European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC)
Thursday 29 November, 09.00 – 18.30 hrs.
Is ERA a first step to GLOREA (Global Research Area)? The ERA from an international perspective09.00-09.15 Summary of Day 1
- Quentin Cooper, Science Journalist, BBC Radio 4
09.15-10.15 Session 3 - Part 2: ERA in an international context: A view from science
Peter Tindemans, Euroscience Board & International STP Policies Consultant - World class conditions for science require re-balancing national and European interests | |
Oscar Marin Parra, Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, EURYI Awardee 2004, Member of the Scientific Council of the ERA - The importance of excellent initiatives for European Research |
10.15-10.30 Session 5: ESF’s role in the emerging ERA (and GLOREA) - Introduction
- John Marks, ESF CEO, Introduction to the parallel sessions
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.00 Session 5: ESF’s role in the emerging ERA (and GLOREA) – Part 1
Session 5.1: Young Investigators Careers
Beate Scholz, Chair EURYI Management Committee - Chair - Conditions for a Research Career in Europe - Challenges and Prospects | |
David Livesey, Secretary General, League of European Research Universities (LERU) - Institutional versus Individual Perspectives: Young Investigators Careers in Research Intensive Universities | |
Ullrich Pfeiffer, EURYI Awardee 2006, Institute of High Frequency and Quantum Electronics, University of Siegen, Germany - A Scientific Career in a Nutshell |
Session 5.2: Strategic Foresight
Rémi Barré, CNAM, France – Chair | |
Hans Westerhoff, Chair Forward Look on Systems Biology and Member of the ESF Task Force on Systems Biology - How will ESF get Europe's act together? From a Forward Look to making Europe lead the Systems Biology for Multifactorial Disease, New Biotechnology, and a Self-Sustaining Planet | |
John Marks, ESF CEO - Systems Biology and the ESF Task Force Recommendations | |
Olaf Kruse, Coordinator Task Force on Systems Biology - Rapporteur |
Session 5.3: ESF-COST Synergy
Francesco Fedi, COST President - Chair - COST-ESF synergy: an opportunity for the European scientific community | |
John Ingram, Oxford University Centre for the Environment - ESF-COST Forward Look on European Food Systems in a Changing World | |
Tom Bloemers, Amsterdam Archaeological Centre, University of Amsterdam/National Organisation for Scientific Research (Humanities), The Hague, Netherlands - Trends and potentialities of landscape studies - an ESF-COST network of networks |
12.00-13.00 Session 5: ESF’s role in the emerging ERA (and GLOREA) - Part 2
Session 5.4: Peer Review: Benchmarking at the European Level
Martin Hynes, Director, IRCSET, Ireland - Chair - Peer Review: distinctive competence or outsourced service? | |
Riitta Mustonen, Vice President (Research), Academy of Finland - International cooperation and peer review | |
Marc Heppener, Head of Science and Applications for Human Spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration, European Space Agency - ESA's view on outsourcing Peer Reviewing to ESF? |
Session 5.5: Researcher Driven Collaborative Research
Reinhard Grunwald, EUROCORES Review Panel, Germany - Chair | |
Jelle Bijma, Chair EuroCLIMATE Scientific Committee - EuroCLIMATE: pros and cons of the EUROCORES Scheme | |
Eili Ervelä-Myréen, NORFACE Network Coordinator - NORFACE - experiences of "common pot" funding |
Session 5.6: Research Infrastructure
Peter Tindemans, previous chair of OECD Megascience Forum - Chair | |
Maria Carvalho Dias, European Commission - Community actions for Research Infrastructures | |
Nicole Biebow, AWI, Germany - AURORA BOREALIS: A new European Research Icebreaker | |
Svante Svensson, Department of Physics, Uppsala University, Sweden, Soft Light Sources |
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.30 Session 6: Views on ERA from the perspectives of private sector
Andrew Dearing, European Industrial Research Management Organisation (EIRMA) - ERA: How shall Europeans see its value? | |
Adriano Henney, Director, Systems Biology, Global Discovery Enabling Capabilities & Science, AstraZeneca - Systems Biology: Opportunities and Challenges for Collaboration between Industry and Academia |
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-17.30 Session 7: Round up and concluding remarks
- Reports from Parallel Sessions
- Concluding Remarks and Round Up by Ian Halliday
17.45-18.30 European Latsis Prize Ceremony: Medical Imaging
19.30 Dinner and Drinks – Palais des Rohan
Friday 30 November, 09.00 – 13.00 hrs.
'Formal' ESF Assembly
Participation at the formal ESF Assembly on Friday 30 November is limited to one representative per ESF Member Organisation, ESF Committee Chairs and invited observers.