Europe in Motion

   

Monday 22nd of May, 9:00-13:00
room BERLIN - Ground floor

   

         
         

This half day workshop has two major objectives:

  • Show that Europe is present in key topics at scientific and technological levels through a number of initiatives
  • Show that advanced materials are present in a large majority of projects in areas such as Energy, Information and Communication Technologies, or Biotechnology.

 

Programme:

09:00      WELCOME ADDRESS
Luisa Torsi, EMRS President
     
09:10   THE FUTURE STRATEGY IN THE MATERIALS AREA IN EUROPE
Hélène Chraye, Head of Unit “Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologies”, European
Commission
     
09:30   MATCH: BUILDING THE EUROPEAN MATERIALS COMMON HOUSE
(to be confirmed)
     
09:45   HERACLES, HERITAGE RESILIENCE AGAINST CLIMATE EVENTS ON SITE
Giuseppina Padeletti, Project Coordinator
     
10:00   NANO2ALL: NANOTECHNOLOGY MUTUAL LEARNING ACTION PLAN FOR
TRANSPARENT AND RESPONSIBLE UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Augusto Medina, Project Coordinator (to be confirmed)
     
10:15   Coffee break
     
10:30   1D-NEON: 1D NANOFIBRE ELECTRO-OPTIC NETWORKS
Kim Jong, Project Coordinator (to be confirmed)
     
10:45   BET-EU : MATERIALS SYNERGY INTEGRATION FOR A BETTER EUROPE
Rodrigo Martins, Project Coordinator
     
11:00   THE PROSPECT OF SCIENCE IN EUROPE
Martin Hynes, European Science Foundation President
     
11:15   STATE OF THE NANOMEDICINE SCIENCE
Delphine Felder, research scientist, Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials
     
11:30   HIGHLIGHT OF THE MATERIALS SUMMIT
Paul Siffert, E-MRS General Secretary
     
11:45   DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS