WHAT COMES NEXT IN EU RESEARCH AND INNOVATION?
A MULTIPLAYER PLATFORM TO BOOST A COOPERATIVE DIALOGUE
TOWARDS A COMMON STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
13th April 2011
Scotland House Conference Centre
Rond-Point Schuman 6, Brussels
Link to the registration
Morning Session
08:30 – 09.00
09:00 – 11:10
Registration
Introduction and welcome from ERRIN and Scotland Europa
Welcome Speech by David Harmon representing Commissioner Màire GeogheganQuinn (tbc)
Setting the scene: EU R&I Policies and main Priorities
 Clara De La Torre I Director for Research and Innovation I EC (tbc)
The role of the Parliament after Lisbon around the Common Strategic Framework
 Marisa Matias I EP I Rapporteur on CSF (tbc)
The European Parliament Perspective towards an integrated approach
 Lambert van Nistelrooij I MEP European Parliament
11:10 – 11:30
11:30 – 13:00
What instruments do we need to implement a Common Strategic Framework tackling
Grand Challenges?
 Dan Andree’ I Special Advisor to the Swedish Ministry of Education & Research
and VINNOVA I Chair of ERAC ad-hoc group on ERA-instruments
Coffee Break
Learning by doing to better plan thef Future – the FP7 interim report
 Peter Fisch I Head of Unit Strategic Planning and Programming I EU Commission
Innovation Union and the Future of CIP
 Julien Guerrier I Head of Unit Coordination I DG Enterprise and Industry I European
Commission (tbc)
R&I going global – the role of International Cooperation
 Laurent Brocherau I Head of Unit International Cooperation Policy I EC (tbc)
How R&I is supported in USA?
 R&D Managing Director I US Mission to Belgium (tbc)
Panel Discussion
13:00 – 14:00
14.00 – 16.45
Lunch Break
st
Afternoon workshops sessions – 1 and 2
16.45 – 17.00
17.00 – 18.00
18.00
nd
round (detailed in Annex 1)
Coffee Break
Working groups report and wrap up
Networking Reception
In cooperation with
st
Annex 1 - Afternoon workshop Sessions – 1 and 2
A. Working together to
deliver on EU 2020
B. Tackling social challenges
nd
Round (14.00 – 16.45)
C. Strengthening competitiveness
D. Strengthening Europe’s science
base and the ERA
Lead Organization :
: Lead Organization :
14.00 – 15.15 Workshop Sessions Round 1
Lead Organization :
Lead Organization :
Welsh High Education Brussels
(tbc)
A. 1 Room:
B. 1 Room:
C.2 Room:
D. 1 Room
Pooling of Resources at the EU,
National and Regional Level R&I funds and the future
Cohesion Policy
Bottom-up research and ERC:
how to balance curiosity and topdown activities
The Industry Approach to RTD
Fostering a balanced Mobility of
Excellence
 Scene setter: Claus Schultze
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– EC DG Regio
Challenger: Marco Lopriore
EIPA (tbc)
Rapporteur:
 Scene setter:
 Challenger:
 Rapporteur: Berwyn Davies
 Scene setter:
 Challenger: Luc Hendrickx Director
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Enterprise Policy and External
Relations - EUAPME
Rapporteur:
 Scene setter:
 Challenger:
 Rapporteur:
15.15 – 15.30 – coffee break
15.30 – 16.45 Workshop Sessions Round 2
Lead organisation:
Lead organisation:
Ile-de-France
Lead organisation:
A. 2 Room:
RTD Socio-economic impact –
R&D Indicators for a Successful
Innovation
C. 1 Room:
C. 3 Room:
Eco Innovation, Social Innovation
and Non-Technological Innovation
New Support Mechanisms to
Research: Procurement and
Financial Engineering
 Scene setter:
 Challenger:
 Rapporteur:
 Scene setter:
 Challenger:
 Rapporteur:
 Scene setter: Bertrand Wert
 Challenger:
 Rapporteur
Lead organisation:
ECRAAL
D. 2 Room:
INCO as part of the CSF
 Scene setter:
 Challenger:
 Rapporteur: