Tuesday 6 June
14.00 - 14.15 Welcome
- António M. Feijó, President of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- Elvira Fortunato, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal
14.15 - 15.00 10 years of EU-LIFE: Joining forces for strong voices in science
- Host: Mónica Bettencourt-Dias, Chair of EU-LIFE & Director of IGC
- Luis Serrano (CRG) & Jo Bury (VIB), Founding chairs of EU-LIFE
- Marta Agostinho, Executive Director of EU-LIFE
- Manuel Aleixo, Head of Unit for ERA Governance & Implementation, European Commission
15.00 - 16.30 The future of science (I)
- Chair: Giulio Superti-Furga, Co-Chair of EU-LIFE & Director of CeMM
- Stefano Boeri, Architect & Professor of Urban Planning at Milan Politecnico
- Alex Jordan, Group Leader at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour
- Jack Leeming, Editor at Nature
- Frances Brodsky, Novelist and Group Leader at University College London
- Emmy Verschuren, Group Leader & Strategic Research Coordinator, FiMM
- Awardees of the EU-LIFE/Nature Essay Contest: Utopia Institute of Research
- Coffee break -
17.00 - 17.45 The future of science (II)
- Chair: Mónica Bettencourt-Dias, Chair of EU-LIFE & Director of IGC
- Maria Leptin, President of ERC
- André Rendeiro, Principal Investigator at CeMM
17.45 - 19.00 The role of creativity in science
- Moderator: Anders Lund, Director of BRIC
- Edith Heard, Director EMBL
- Alex Jordan, Group Leader at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour
- Jona Shkurti, Medical Doctor & PhD student at NKI
- Andrzej Dziembowski, Head of Laboratory at IIMCB
19.00 - 19.40 Poster session
- Conference dinner -
Wednesday 7 June
9.00 - 10.45 The role of collaboration & multidisciplinarity in science
- Henrique Leitao, Senior Researcher & Provost of the University of Lisbon
- Moderator: Electra Gizeli, IMBB Deputy Director and Group Leader
- Wolf Reik, Scientific Director of Altos Labs
- Hana Svozilova, PhD Student at CEITEC
- Tanja Florin, Science manager at MDC
- Jan Steyaert, Scientific Director of the VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology and Founder of ConfoTerapeutics
- Coffee break -
11.15 - 12.30 The role of proactivity in science
- Moderator: Giorgia Guglielmi, Science Writer and Communications Manager at FMI
- Caroline Giuglaris, PhD Student at Institut Curie
- Navneet Vasistha, Assistant Professor at BRIC
- Silvia Gomez-Recio, Secretary General Yerun
- Amos Abolaji, Director & Founder of Drosophila Research & Training Centre in Nigeria
- Janusz Bujnicki, Project Leader at IIMCB
12.30 - 13.15 Legacy of EU-LIFE and vision for the future
- Monica Bettencourt-Dias, Chair of EU-LIFE & Director of IGC
- Giulio Superti-Furga, Co-Chair of EU-LIFE & Director of CeMM
- Conference lunch -
* Please note all times are local (GMT)
