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ESOF2008 The future of science in Europe Scientific Open Forum 19-22Juluy08 Barcelona

2008-07-18 00:00
2008-07-22 00:00

ESOF2008: a unique opportunity to influence the future of science in Europe


The mission of the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) is to provide both the European and the international science and business communities with an open platform for debate and communication. It presents and profiles Europe's leading research trends in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is an opportunity to discuss and influence the future of research and innovation in Europe by involving all main stakeholders: scientists, business executives and policy-makers.  

  • Discover new trends and directions in research, business, science policy and funding
  • Network with leaders of the international science and business community 
  • Communicate your research and ideas to an international audience   
  • Participate in the debate, discussion and excitement of European science and technology  
  • Meet and talk to scientific and business journalists from Europe and around the world  
  • Develop your career, your future projects and your contacts


Date/Time  Type  Theme  Organiser  Title
18-07
10:30 - 12:00
Exhibition Programme      Lluis Calvo i Calvo
 
The CSIC and 21st-century science: Scientific and social challenges
18-07
14:30 - 16:00
Exhibition Programme      Jordi Mas
 
2COMMUNICATE: EXPERIENCE SCIENCE!
18-07
16:30 - 18:00
Exhibition Programme      Jens Degett
 
The great challenges for science in the developing world
19-07
08:30 - 10:00
Exhibition Programme      Jaume Bertranpetit
 
Presentation of the ICREA programme
19-07
10:30 - 12:00
Exhibition Programme      Tony Mayer
 
Le defi asiatique - The Lion City, one of Asia's leading challengers
19-07
12:00 - 13:00
Plenary Speakers      Aaron Ciechanover
 
Why our proteins have to die so we shall live
19-07
13:30 - 14:30
Tapas with the Prof      Raffaele Liberali
 
Tapas with Raffaele Liberali
19-07
13:30 - 14:30
Tapas with the Prof      Simon Wessely
 
Tapas with Simon Wessely
19-07
13:30 - 14:30
Tapas with the Prof      Tejinder Virdee
 
Tapas with Tejinder Virdee
19-07
13:30 - 14:30
Tapas with the Prof      Gerry Gilmore
 
Tapas with Gerry Gilmore
19-07
13:30 - 14:30
Tapas with the Prof      Sir Richard Mottram
 
Tapas with Richard Mottram
19-07
13:30 - 14:30
Tapas with the Prof      Bernat Soria
 
Tapas with Bernat Soria
19-07
14:30 - 16:00
Exhibition Programme      idw – Informationsdienst Wissenschaft / Information Service Science (Germany)
Expertanswer (Sweden)
 
Science = communication, The mass media care for research ‐ If you care
19-07
16:30 - 18:00
Exhibition Programme      Christine Heller del Riego
 
Constructive engagement between science and humanities
20-07
08:30 - 10:00
Exhibition Programme        KIM'S Model of Technology Valuation
20-07
10:30 - 12:00
Exhibition Programme        Introduction to RIKEN
20-07
12:00 - 13:00
Plenary Speakers      Marcus du Sautoy
 
Mathematics: creative art or useful science?
20-07
13:30 - 14:30
Tapas with the Prof      Octavio Quintana Trias
 
Tapas with Quintana Trias
20-07
13:30 - 14:30
Tapas with the Prof      Didier Gambier
 
Tapas with Didier Gambier
20-07
13:30 - 14:30
Tapas with the Prof      Lord Warner
 
Tapas with Norman Warner
20-07
13:30 - 14:30
Tapas with the Prof      Juan Antonio Rubio
 
Tapas with Juan Antonio Rubio
20-07
13:30 - 14:30
Tapas with the Prof      Marcus du Sautoy
 
Tapas with Marcus du Sautoy
20-07
13:30 - 14:30
Tapas with the Prof      Aaron Ciechanover
 
Tapas with Aaron Ciechanover
20-07
13:30 - 14:30
Tapas with the Prof      Richard J. Roberts
 
Tapas with Richard Roberts
20-07
14:30 - 16:00
Exhibition Programme      Christine Heller del Riego
Jens Degett
 
More than just a pill: why recognition of drug delivery is vital
20-07
16:30 - 18:00
Exhibition Programme        Compagnia San Paolo
21-07
08:30 - 10:00
Exhibition Programme      Association bizkaia:xede dependent on the Provincial Government of Bizkaia
 
Bizkaia:xede employment and innovation for Scientifics and Researchers
21-07
08:30 - 10:00
Business Programme        Is tech-transfer evil?
21-07
10:30 - 12:00
Exhibition Programme      Ministry of Innovation and Industry, Government of Galicia
 
Galician research, development and innovation system: opportunities for the future
21-07
10:30 - 12:00
Business Programme        Knowledge transfer - What works?
21-07
12:00 - 13:00
Plenary Speakers      Richard J. Roberts
 
A rebel with a cause
21-07
14:30 - 16:00
Exhibition Programme      CommNet
 
Tapas – making the right choice for you?
21-07
14:30 - 16:00
Business Programme        Open innovation - The new model for collaboration
21-07
16:30 - 18:00
Exhibition Programme      CIEMAT
 
Science, energy of the future. Towards a participative research.
21-07
16:30 - 18:00
Business Programme        Innovation clusters - How to build Silicon Valley in Europe
22-07
10:30 - 12:00
Exhibition Programme      Generalitat de Catalunya Direcció General de Recerca (Directorate General for Research)
 
Research in Catalonia: opportunities and future challenges
22-07
12:00 - 13:00
Plenary Speakers      Eva Bayer-Fluckiger
 
The science of communications - number theory and space-time codes
22-07
14:30 - 16:00
Exhibition Programme      Ministry of Innovation, Universities and Enterprise. Government of Catalonia
 
Catalan Agreement on Research and Innovation: Commitment for the future
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Outreach Activity    Human Mind  Anna Berti
 
Secrets of the brain and frontiers of the mind
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Outreach Activity    Human Mind  Giuseppe Zambon
 
Switch your brain on!
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Outreach Activity    Human Mind  Narcis Pares
 
Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media
00-00
00:00 - 00:00
Outreach Activity    Human Mind  Paul Verschure
 
re(PER)curso: a mixed reality performance
00-00
00:00 - 00:00
Outreach Activity    Human Mind  Paul Verschure
 
Synthetic Oracle
00-00
11:00 - 00:00
Outreach Activity    Human Mind  Maria Cristina Junyent
 
Cooperate or compete?
18-07
14:30 - 16:00
Keynote Speakers    The human mind and behaviour  Pierre Magistretti
 
Looking Inside Your Brain
18-07
16:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    The human mind and behaviour  Elaine Snell
Alison Abbott
 
Looking Inside Your Brain
19-07
08:30 - 10:00
Scientific Session    The human mind and behaviour  Teodora Gliga
 
Babies in the making: why and when should we intervene?
19-07
10:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    The human mind and behaviour  Mark Schmidt
 
Can developments in social cognition help?
19-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    The human mind and behaviour  Miquel-Àngel Serra
 
Drug addiction: from mice to mind to society
20-07
08:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    The human mind and behaviour  Eva Hoogland
 
Consciousness in context
21-07
08:30 - 10:00
Scientific Session    The human mind and behaviour  Christine Heller del Riego
 
Mind, human perception and social evolution
21-07
10:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    The human mind and behaviour  Niels Birbaumer
 
Brain-Computer-Interfaces: end of the privacy of thoughts?
18-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    The Very Big and the Very Small  Karl Ziemelis
 
An organic revolution
19-07
08:30 - 10:00
Keynote Speakers    The Very Big and the Very Small  Gerry Gilmore
Tejinder Virdee
 
The Universe and Reality
19-07
10:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    The Very Big and the Very Small  Lyn Evans
 
Why the vacuum is not empty, or the frontiers of physics
19-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    The Very Big and the Very Small  Enrique Gaztanaga
 
Crisis in cosmology?
20-07
14:30 - 16:00
Scientific Session    The Very Big and the Very Small  Gonzalo Merino
 
The LHC computing challenge: how to deal with the data avalanche
20-07
16:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    The Very Big and the Very Small  Carsten Welsch
 
Low-energy antiprotons: understanding nature in all its facets
21-07
08:30 - 10:00
Scientific Session    The Very Big and the Very Small  Leonid Dubrovinsky
Bjoern Winkler
 
Science at the centre of the earth: matter at extreme pressure and temperature
21-07
16:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    The Very Big and the Very Small  Jürgen Eschner
 
The amazing quantum world of ultra cold matter
19-07
10:30 - 12:00
Keynote Speakers    Open society, open science  Sir Richard Mottram
 
Science and the terrorist challenge - options for policy and their implications
19-07
14:30 - 16:00
Scientific Session    Open society, open science  Ylann Schemm
 
Bridging the Digital Divide by 2015: partnering to provide the developing world with critical research
19-07
16:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Open society, open science  Alma Swan
 
Sharing scientific data: who benefits?
20-07
08:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Open society, open science  Camilla Modéer
Carl Johan Sundberg
David Cope
Karin Hermansson
 
Politics and science: how can we bridge the gap?
20-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Open society, open science  David Jacovkis
Wouter Tebbens
 
One step further: from Free Software to Free Knowledge
21-07
10:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Open society, open science  Gabriele Tamborini
 
Atomic detectives: nuclear forensics and illicit trafficking
21-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Open society, open science  Wim Blockmans
Sandra Richter
 
The Open Society and its Sciences
22-07
08:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Open society, open science  Lynda Lich-Knight
 
Building Networks - How to Support Science Journalists in Developing Countries
18-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Engineering the body  Urban Wiesing
Stephen Minger
 
Stem cell debate: UK position versus German position
19-07
08:30 - 10:00
Scientific Session    Engineering the body  Fiona Kernan
 
Stem Cells- From Bench to Bedside
19-07
10:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Engineering the body  Bernat Soria
 
Frontiers in Stem Cell Research
19-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Engineering the body  Amílcar Labarta
 
What can Nanotechnology do for Healthcare?
20-07
10:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Engineering the body  Josep A. Planell
 
Bionics versus regenerative medicine
20-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Engineering the body  Hermann Stamm
 
Nanotechnology and health – promises and risks
21-07
08:30 - 10:00
Scientific Session    Engineering the body  Marta Sanz-Solé
Ari Laptev
 
Can mathematics help medicine?
22-07
08:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Engineering the body  James Vaupel
 
The male-female health survival paradox
18-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    What should we eat and how should we look?  Colette Shortt
 
Novel food and functional food: how will they be regulated?
19-07
08:30 - 10:00
Keynote Speakers    What should we eat and how should we look?  Ben Goldacre
 
Food, Fads and Fantasies
19-07
10:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    What should we eat and how should we look?  Marian Saad
 
The aesthetics of the body
19-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    What should we eat and how should we look?  Emilio Rodriguez Cerezo
 
Dolly for dinner? Technological and socio-economic perspectives of animal cloning
20-07
08:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    What should we eat and how should we look?  Carlos Duarte
 
The future of human nutrition: ocean and land
21-07
08:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    What should we eat and how should we look?  Marta Guadalupe Rivera-Ferre
 
Why are we fat?
21-07
14:30 - 16:00
Scientific Session    What should we eat and how should we look?  Philippa Bell
 
Food security and sustainability
18-07
14:30 - 16:00
Scientific Session    Enhancing energy security, fighting global warming  Tajinder Panesor
 
Future nuclear power - The practicalities
18-07
16:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Enhancing energy security, fighting global warming  Tajinder Panesor
 
Fusion: will it always be 40 years away?
19-07
08:30 - 10:00
Scientific Session    Enhancing energy security, fighting global warming  Elizabeth Milsom
 
Biofuels - a realistic energy solution
19-07
10:30 - 12:00
Keynote Speakers    Enhancing energy security, fighting global warming  Nick Butler
 
Restoring Energy Security
20-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Enhancing energy security, fighting global warming  Sean McWhinnie
 
Smart Energy Homes
20-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Enhancing energy security, fighting global warming  Georg Meran
 
Ecology and markets
21-07
08:30 - 10:00
Scientific Session    Enhancing energy security, fighting global warming  Karin Metzlaff
Chiara Tonelli
 
The heat is on: are crops and algae our future source of energy?
21-07
10:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Enhancing energy security, fighting global warming  Saeko Okada
 
Drought-tolerant plants: helping the world to cope with global warming
21-07
14:30 - 16:00
Scientific Session    Enhancing energy security, fighting global warming  Juan Antonio Rubio
 
Massive renewable sources of energy and cooperation with Latin America
22-07
08:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Enhancing energy security, fighting global warming  Magda Moner
 
Photovoltaics: Sustainable energy in the Mediterranean region
18-07
14:30 - 16:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker
 
The ERC: inducing structural changes to the European research landscape?
18-07
14:30 - 16:00
Keynote Speakers    Science and Innovation Policy  Sir David King
 
The environmental challenges of the 21st Century
18-07
16:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Albert Teich
 
The Influence of Governments on Industrial R&D and Innovation
18-07
16:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Renzo Rubele
 
The European Charter for Researchers and its impact at research institutions
19-07
08:30 - 10:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Peter Tindemans
 
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology: gaps in Europe’s innovation capacity, matching US missions
19-07
10:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Raffaele Liberali
 
Constructing the European Research Area (ERA) – the example of the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan)
19-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Georges Parisot
Carol Naughton
John Finney
 
Evidence-based policy or policy-based evidence? Nuclear weapons decision making in Europe.
19-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Miklos Gyoerffi
Theodoros Karapiperis
 
The Interaction between Democracy and Expertise - Dilemmas for Parliaments
20-07
08:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Maximilian Fochler
 
What are the ethical and social responsibilities of scientists?
20-07
10:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Poul Kjaer
 
Does the Open Method of Coordination in R&D give results?
20-07
14:30 - 16:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Luis Delgado
 
Research policy scenario: Modernisation of Universities-strengthening partnership with the business community?
20-07
16:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Aidan Gilligan
 
Mars and Venus: how Europeans and Americans view and use science
21-07
08:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Jens Degett
 
Will Europe ever have a knowledge based economy?
21-07
14:30 - 16:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Iain Mattaj
 
Research infrastructures for Europe
21-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Christine Heller del Riego
Jens Degett
 
Euroscience's Interactive Workshop: development of a virtual network custom designed for scientists
21-07
16:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Wilhelm Krull
 
Foundations for Europe - Fostering Creativity
22-07
08:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Andrew Dearing
 
Achieving a More Innovative Europe
22-07
08:30 - 10:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Mary Osborn
Joan Guinovart
 
Women in Science: Speeding up change
22-07
10:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Nina Kancewicz-Hoffman
 
Reaching for the future of European Science
22-07
10:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Science and Innovation Policy  Marja Makarow
 
Women in science around the world
19-07
08:30 - 10:00
Scientific Session    Science and Art  Mónica Lobo
 
Art and science: opportunities for interaction
19-07
10:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Science and Art  Jean-Patrick Connerade
 
Science meets Poetry
19-07
10:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Science and Art  Neil Vickers
 
How do science and art interact?
19-07
14:30 - 16:00
Scientific Session    Science and Art  Sarah Dickinson
 
Conserving the past: the chemistry of art restoration
19-07
16:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Science and Art  Camilla Rossi-Linnemann
 
Drawing science: from Leonardo to Edison
20-07
08:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Science and Art  Christian Kleinert
 
Are the arts the language of the brain?
20-07
16:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Science and Art  Piotr Swiatek
 
Science and the preservation of cultural heritage
21-07
08:30 - 10:00
Scientific Session    Screening: burdens and benefits  Carlos Ribera
 
DNA Barcode as a tool to study the biodiversity
21-07
10:30 - 12:00
Keynote Speakers    Screening: burdens and benefits  Lord Warner
 
Science and public policy - political dilemnas
21-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Screening: burdens and benefits  Claire Fox
 
Screening programmes – promoting health or anxiety?
22-07
08:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Screening: burdens and benefits  Barbara Prainsack
Clare Williams
 
Choosing children, designing families
22-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Screening: burdens and benefits  Jordi Segura
 
Doping and society: towards the perfect human machine?
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Outreach Activity    Human Body  Camilla Rossi-Linnemann
 
Food, science and society
00-00
00:00 - 00:00
Outreach Activity    Human Body  Pepe Zapata
 
Science in the Kitchen - pans and test tubes
18-07
16:00 - 17:00
Outreach Activity    Human Body  Daniel Jimenez Albiac
 
Science in the kitchen
18-07
17:00 - 18:00
Outreach Activity    Human Body  Gloria Lligadas
 
Discovering the DNA
18-07
18:00 - 18:30
Outreach Activity    Human Body  Manuela Arata
 
Dynamic Tango
19-07
10:00 - 11:30
Outreach Activity    Human Body  Rosina Malagrida
 
Do Research! How are drugs developed?
19-07
14:30 - 16:00
Outreach Activity    Human Body  David De Lorenzo
 
Genomics à la carte
20-07
18:00 - 00:00
Outreach Activity    Human Body  Ana Godinho
 
The Stem Cell Dream
18-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Communicating Science  David Carlson
Margarete Pauls
 
Research and Outreach Cooperation during the International Polar Year: Dazzling Science and Powerful Messages
20-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Communicating Science  Hanns-J. Neubert
 
Ethics in science journalism
21-07
08:30 - 10:00
Scientific Session    Communicating Science  Pradeep Kumar Srivastava
 
Scientoonics: a novel way to learn science having fun
21-07
10:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Communicating Science  Dirk Lorenzen
 
Reaching for the stars: research in heaven, communication in hell
21-07
10:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Communicating Science  Laura Smillie
 
Food Risk Communication – Bridging theory and Practice
21-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Communicating Science  Ginger Pinholster
 
Radio, podcasting, and health news, beyond borders
21-07
14:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Communicating Science  Albert Gerdes
 
Revealing Europe`s Hidden Map
22-07
08:30 - 10:00
Scientific Session    Communicating Science  Vladimir Kossobokov
 
The planet Earth
22-07
10:30 - 12:00
Scientific Session    Communicating Science  Peter Green
 
The pressures on reporting research
22-07
14:30 - 16:00
Scientific Session    Communicating Science  Cristina Jimenez
 
Science, money and politics
22-07
16:30 - 18:00
Scientific Session    Communicating Science  Eleanor Hayes
 
What can scientists do to improve science education in schools?
19-07
16:30 - 18:30
Career Programme    Science communication  Alessandra Bendiscioli
Andrew Moore
 
Get proactive! – an interactive session on taking the initiative in public communication
19-07
16:30 - 18:00
Career Programme    Science communication  Diane Scherzler
 
The journalists got my message wrong, again! How to minimise mistakes in media coverage
20-07
08:30 - 10:00
Career Programme    Science and Innovation policy  Livio Riboli-Sasco
 
Young generations: energy to open new perspectives for science and reform universities
20-07
10:30 - 12:00
Career Programme    Science and Innovation policy  López-Guerrero José Antonio
 
Rebeca's Thesis. The career of a young scientist
19-07
08:30 - 10:00
Career Programme    Jobs/Careers/Skill development (practical sessions)  Massimo Serpieri
 
Concrete career perspectives in the EU for researchers
19-07
10:30 - 12:00
Career Programme    Jobs/Careers/Skill development (practical sessions)