Presidenza Italiana
del Consiglio
dell’Unione Europea
italia2014.eu
Bruxelles, 11th December 2014
European Parliament, Room P7C050
Reconnecting policy making and science:
How do we do it?
Study case: Active ageing & Healthy living
8:15
9:00
Registration
11:00
Welcome address
Patrizia TOIA, MEP, Vice-chair of the Committee on Industry Research
Riccardo RIBERA D’ALCALA, Director-General, Directorate of the Internal
9:15
Keynote speech
The contribution of research in shaping the society of tomorrow
Franco ANELLI, Rector, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
UCloud: new ways to foster dialogue between science
and the society
Lorenzo MORELLI, Chair of the Committee for Strategic Research,
9:45
Panelists:
Jorge PINTO ANTUNES, Head of Unit Innovation for health
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Dirk JACOBS, Deputy Director-General and Director Consumer
Session I
Demographic Change: a significant challenge and a great
social opportunity in Europe
Rafael DE ANDRÉS MEDINA, Member of the Management Board
Francesco LANDI, Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics,
The Panel will address the need to reconnect policy and science
at Regional, National and European level, and to improve cooperation
among different stakeholders with a multidisciplinary approach aiming
at exploring the great impact that these processes have on grand challenges
such as demographic change. It will discuss the contribution of European
research policy towards a significant improvement in Europe’s research
performance in order to promote growth, social services innovation and
social value creation. Two examples from two relevant JPIs that are contributing
to make better use of Europe’s public funds in the field of demographic change
will be debated. The European Commission will address how to best grow
a large scale Silver Economy, including social services as an opportunity
for quality of life, economic growth and competitiveness in Europe.
Panelists:
Luca MORETTI, Research Attaché, Permanent Representation of Italy to the EU
Paolo Maria ROSSINI, Professor of Neurology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,
Margit NOLL, Member of the Management Board of the JPI Urban Europe,
Peter WINTLEV, Deputy Head of Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Giuseppe RIVA, Professor of Psychology and New Technologies in Communication,
Focus
The panel will highlight difficulties in science-policy dialogue
and principles for good policy-science collaboration. It will also
elaborate on stakeholder involvement and the need for a
multidisciplinary approach to research aimed at better focusing
the issues generated by the demographic change. The priority areas
identified by the European Commission in the field of nutrition for elderly;
the European food industry initiatives in nutrition and healthy diets;
the contribution from the academia in nutrition and ageing will
all constitute contributions to a constructive debate.
Policies of the Union, European Parliament
Mario MELAZZINI, Regional Minister of Enterprise, Research and Innovation,
Lombardy Region
Session II
Demographic Change: an opportunity to promote
healthy nutrition for healthy ageing
Focus
and Energy (ITRE), European Parliament
9:30
and consumers, DG SANCO, European Commission
Information, Diet and Health, FoodDrinkEurope
of the JPI Healthy diet for Healthy life
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Q&A
12:15
Closing remarks
12:30
Lunch buffet
Chair of the JPI More Years and Better Lives
Austrian Institute of Technology
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Q&A
Under the patronage of