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Horizon 2020 - New Commission, new Agenda


One year after the launch of the Horizon 2020 programme, Science|Business will bring together applicants, project holders, industry executives and key policy makers to take stock of the programme and discuss the most important challenges for Europe to solve over the next 20 years. How can the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, in tandem with corporate R&D and university science, solve them?

At the conference, Science|Business will present an agenda for action by the new Commission and Parliament in life sciences, energy, ICT and manufacturing.

PowerPoint presentations from the conference can be downloaded here.

Time: 09:30 - 17:30

Date: 24 March 2015

Venue: The University Foundation: Rue d’Egmont 11, 1000 Brussels

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Horizon 2020: New Commission, new Agenda, 24 March, Brussels

Speakers
Speakers
Clara de la Torre
Director, Key Enabling Technologies, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Monica Dietl
Director, Cost Association
Mischa Dohler
Head, Centre for Telecom Research; Chair Professor, King's College London
Shiva Dustdar
Head of RDI Advisory, European Investment Bank
Abdelhamid El-Zoheiry
President of the Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI)
Matthew W. Ganz
President, Boeing Germany and Northern Europe; Vice-President, European Technology Strategy, The Boeing Company
Kostas Glinos
Head of Unit, Strategy, EFTA and enlargement countries, Russia Asia and Pacific, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Chris Haenen
Director, EU Funding, GE
Bart Haex
Professor of Biomechanics, KU Leuven; Director of Research Policy, Maastricht University
Paul Indelicato
Vice President for Research and Innovation, Pierre and Marie Curie University
Ann Katherine Isaacs
Rector's Delegate for European Programmes: Research and Higher Education, University of Pisa
Sudhesh Kumar
Dean, Warwick Medical School; Director of Institute of Digital Healthcare, Warwick Manufacturing Group
Waldemar Kütt
Head of Unit, Bio-based products and processing, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Jean-David Malo
Head of Unit, SMEs, Financial instruments and State Aid, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Karin Markides
President and CEO, Chalmers University of Technology
Marzio Nessi
Head of the Development and Innovation Unit (DG-DI), CERN
Peter Olesen
Chairman of the EIT Governance Board
Viorel Peca
Head of Unit, Innovation, DG Communications Networks, Content & Technology, European Commission
Abdul Rahim
Director, Vision2020: The Horizon Network
Donatella Sciuto
Vice Rector, Politecnico di Milano
Daria Tataj
Founder and CEO, Tataj Innovation
Isabelle Thizon d Gaulle
Vice President, European Strategic Initiatives & Scientific Relations, Sanofi
Rik Torfs
Rector, KU Leuven
Ann Uustalu
Research Programme Manager - Public health, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Thierry Van der Pyl
Director, Excellence in Science, DG Communications Networks, Content & Technology, European Commission
Rosalinde van der Vlies
Head of Unit, Evaluatioin and Impact Assessment, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Jonathan Wareham
Dean of Faculty & Research for the ESADE Business & Law Schools, and Professor of Information Systems at ESADE Business School
John Wood
Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU)
Emma Woodford
Director for Strategic Partnerships and Development, European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)
Programme
Programme

09:30 - Introduction: Tibor Navracsics, EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport

10:00 - Mobilising investments for innovation

In an effort to attract private capital to innovation, a series of new initiatives have been launched: JTIs, JUs, PPPs, President Juncker's new Investment Plan, and more. How will they work? Can they work?

  • Waldemar Kutt, Head of Unit, Bio-based products and processing, DG RTD, European Commission
  • Scott Cain, Executive Director, Strategy, Business Development and Communications, Future Cities Catapult, INNOVATE UK
  • Peter Olesen, Chairman of the EIT Governing Board
  • Shiva Dustdar, Head of RDI Advisory, European Investment Bank
  • Jonathan Wareham, Dean of Faculty and Research, ESADE

Moderated by John Wyles, Member of the Science|Business Board

10:55 - Coffee

11:20 - Defining Impact under Horizon 2020

With Horizon2020, the Commission made 'delivering impact' one of the three main criteria for getting a grant. What does it mean?

  • Rosalinde van der Vlies, Head of Unit, Evaluation, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
  • Chris Haenen, Director EU Funding, GE
  • Sergio Bertolucci, Director for Research and Computing, CERN
  • Monica Dietl, Director, COST Association

Moderated by John Wood, Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities

12:10 - Breakout sessions 

  • Horizon 2020: How has it been for you?

Workshop for Horizon 2020 recipients and applicants to share their experience in responding to the 2014 calls. Two-stage application process, success rates, ethics review, evaluators feedback, what are your takeaways?

  • Disease prevention, Dementia, Cardiovascular disease, Oncology

The Commission has set 'enabling a healthy, ageing society' as one of its 'Grand Challenges' under Horizon 2020 - but what, exactly, does that require? A forward-looking discussion on an emerging issue that EU healthcare R&D will need to address from 2016 onwards.

  • Horizon 2020: A programme with global ambitions

Horizon 2020 is unique for its openness and the opportunities it offers in terms of international cooperation. What are the EU's objectives? How inclusive will it be? What has been the interest of non-EU researchers so far?

13:00 - Lunch

14:00 - Video interview with Carlos Moedas, EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation

14:15 - Horizon 2020: Lessons learned from the launch 

A year on, how is Horizon 2020 going - on a practical level? Evaluation, success rates, cash flow... The view from the Commission, plus the strategic outlook for 2016 and beyond.

Introduction by Wolfgang Burtscher, Deputy Director-General, DG Research and Innovation, European Commissioin

Panel discussion:

  • Wolfgang Burtscher, Deputy-General, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
  • Isabelle Thizon de Gaulle, Vice President European Strategic Initiatives & Scientific Relations, Sanofi
  • Rik Torfs, Rector, KU Leuven
  • Karin Markides, President and CEO, Chalmers University of Technology

Moderated by Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business

15:15 - Coffee

15:45 - Horizon 2020: Taking stock of the programmes

Horizon 2020 is a collection of programmes that include the ERC grants, Marie Sklodowska-Curie, the SME instrument, the EIT and Future and Emerging Technologies. A detailed discussion of their progress with programme leaders. 

Key Enabling Technologies: Clara de la Torre, Director, Key Enabling Technologies, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

Future Emerging Technologies: Thierry Van der Pyl, Director, Excellence in Science, DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission

The SME instrument and access to finance: Jean-David Malo, Head of Unit, SMEs, Financial instruments and State Aid, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

The EIT and the Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions: Denis Crowley, Head of Unit (incoming), Innovation in education, EIT and MSCA, DG Education and Culture, European Commission

Moderated by Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business 

16:45 - Foresight 2030: Future Challenges for Europe

Innovation megatrends that will transform society and economy: The result of a Science|Business Network foresight exercise.

  • Matthew W. Granz, President, Boeing Germany and Northern Europe; Vice-President, European Technology Strategy, The Boeing Company
  • Quentin Compton-Bishop, CEO, Warwick Ventures
  • Mischa Dohler, Chair Professor of Wireless Communications, King's College London

Moderated by Daria Tataj, Founder & CEO, Tataj Innovation 

17:30 - Networking reception