EuroScience will host a virtual booth and a number of hybrid and virtual sessions at ESOF2020. Take a look at the schedule below and join us both physically or virtually!
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Thursday, 3 September
| 08.30 – 10.00 EuroScience Virtual room | Impact of COVID-19 on the career development of Researchers | Speakers: Katie Wheat, Head of Engagement and Policy at Vitae Thomas Coudreau, President of Réseau National des Collèges doctoraux Sara Pilia, Equality Coordinator of Eurodoc Tanja Vuckovic Juros, Editor-in-Chief of the Croatian Sociological Review. Moderator: Brian Cahill, EuroScience Governing Board member |
| 10.15 – 11.45 EuroScience Virtual room | Skillset required of researchers of the 21st century | Speakers: Grazia Vittadini, Chief Technology Officer at Airbus Patrick Maestro, Chief Scientific Officer, Solvey Marja Makarow, member of the board of European Institute of Innovation and Technology Moderator: Prof. Michael Matlosz, Professor of chemical technology at the University of Nancy |
| 12.00 – 13.00 EuroScience Virtual room | The quest for reliability in the face of an ‘infodemic’: handling scientific uncertainty in unfolding debates | Speakers: Paul Manners – Director of National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement at UWE Bristol Stephan Lewandowsky – FacSS, University of Bristol Imran Khan – Head of Public Engagement at Wellcome Trust Emma Frans – Postdoctoral researcher in medical epidemiology at Karolinska Institute Federica Rosetta – Director Global Strategic Networks at Elsevier Cissi Askwall – Secretary General Vetenskap & Allmänhet Laura Smillie – Policy analyst at European Commission Moderator: Tracey Brown – Sense about Science |
| 14.30 – 16.00 EuroScience Virtual room | The future of European Science ‘global Europe’ | Speakers: Irene Norstedt – Director ‘People’ directorate RTD Beth Thompson – Head of EU UK Policy at Wellcome Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch – Head of Research Affairs at Science Europe – Judy Dempsey – nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie Europe Moderator: Dame Anne Glover – President of the Royal Society of Edimburgh – DBE FRS FRSE FASM FRSGS |
| 16.15 – 17.45 EuroScience Virtual room | How to show the research community who you are. | Speakers: Sofia Blazevic, Mendeley Advisor Rachel Brennesholtz, Researcher Community Manager, Mendeley Claudio Colaiacomo, Vice President Academic Relations, Elsevier Christopher Tancock, Senior Communications Manager, Elsevier Moderator: Lyndsay Duncum, Head of Researcher Messaging & Content, Elsevier |
| 16.15 – 17.45 room 27A Hybrid format | What? vs. So What?: Science communication in times of crisis | Speakers Clive Cookson, Financial Times Science Editor Ivana Kurecic, Scientist and Science Communicator from the TU Munich Federica Bressan, Science Communicator and Editor of the Technoculture Podcast Svetla TANOVA-ENCKE, Coordinator of the European Science-Media Hub of the European Parliament Moderator: Chloe Hill, Policy Officer from the European Geophysical Union. |
| 18.00 – 19.30 EuroScience Virtual room | Mind the gap: Bridging the expectation gap between researchers and employers | Speakers: Dr. Frances Colon, Science and environmental policy expert, Former Deputy Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State, United States Dr. Karen Stroobants, Board Member of MCAA & co-founder of research culture blog @MetisTalk Dr. Esther Volz, Board Member of MCAA & Research Project Manager, DECHEMA e.V. Dr. Valentina Ferro, Vice – Chair of MCAA & Post-doctoral Researchers, University of California Moderator: Dr. Mostafa Moonir Shawrav, Chair, Marie Curie Alumni Association |
| 18.00 – 19.30 room 27A Hybrid format | Innovation in times of COVID-19 | Speakers Vesna Prchkovska, Chief Operating Officer at QMenta Leena Pishe Thomas, Director and Principal Consultant at Global Business Inroads John Murray, Venture Capital/Angel investor – Member of the SPWG Fabrizio Conicella, General Manager of OpenZone Moderator: Nandakumar Krishnaswamy, Mentor & Investor in innovative solutions |
Friday, 4 September
| 08.30 – 10.00 EuroScience Virtual room | Open science in time of pandemics: the experience of the Research Data alliance working group on COVID-19 in the international landscape | Speakers: Nathalie Harrower, Director of Digital Repository of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, and one of the other Co-Chairs of the RDA COVID19 WG tbc Priyanka Pillai, University of Melbourne, Health Informatics Specialist for the Australian Partnership for Preparedness Research on Infectious Disease Emergencies (APPRISE) and one of the co-Chairs of the RDA COVID19 WG tbc Brian Pickering, senior research fellow, University of Southampton, One of the moderators of the RDA COVID19 WG to be confirmed Carthage Smith, OECD –tbc Juan Bicarregui, Head of the Data Division in the Scientific Computing Department at STFC (Science and technology Facilities Council, UKRI) tbc Moderator: Anne Cambon-Thomsen, France, confirmed, Ambassador RDA Europe, Co-Chair of the RDA COVID19 WG and EuroScience board member, former ESOF2018 Champion) |
| 10.15 – 11.45 EuroScience Virtual room | Graphene as a chance for a cleaner environment | One of the biggest challenges of the modern world is the reduction of plastics. Traffic, industry and households each produce hundreds of substances every day that damage and pollute water. Clean water is the need of every human being. Many new materials are being developed to serve mankind. As young scientists, we are looking for solutions to the modern problems of humanity. We are working on modern composite materials based on graphene – a material with many applications. As engaged citizens, we are trying to make people aware of the need to reduce pollutant emissions. Speakers: Young researchers from Center for Dialogue |
| 12.00 – 13.30 EuroScience Virtual room | EU-Open Science Policy Platform : Open Science from Recommendations to Practical implementation | Speakers: Eva Mendez, OSPP Chair, Deputy Vice-President for Science Policy/Open Science of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Koen Vermeir, Co-Chair, Global Young Academy, CNRS Research Professor Ian Moss, Chief Executive Officer, International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers Lidia Borrell-Damian, Secretary General, Science Europe Michela Bertero, Head of the International and Scientific Affairs Unit of the EU-LIFE partner CRG Moderator: Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director, F1000 |
| 13.30 – 14.30 EuroScience Virtual room | Virtual session ESOF2018 Toulouse | |
| 14.30 – 16.00 EuroScience Virtual room | Lessons learned and prospects for the future: Wrap up and outcome | Speakers: Hamaguchi Michinari – Japan Science and Technology Agency President Michael Matlosz, EuroScience President Bonginkosi Nzimande, Minister of the Department of Higher Education and Training, Science and Innovation of South Africa Moderator: Gail Cardew, Vice-President of EuroScience |
| 16.15 – 17.45 EuroScience Virtual room | How sensemaking allows us to make sense of the misinformation crisis? | Speakers: Marzia Mazzonetto, Project manager at Sissa Medialab – convenor Frank Kupper, Assistant professor of science communication at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – Athena Institute Andy Rigway, Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at University of the West of England Birte Fähnrich, Senior Researcher at the Center for Political Communication of Zeppelin University |
| 18.00 – 19.30 EuroScience Virtual room | AAAS Late-Breaker COVID-related Session | Speakers Sudip Parikh, Chief Executive Officer, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA; Executive Publisher, Science family of journals Dominique Brossard, Professor and Chair, Department of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) Helen Branswell, Senior Writer, Infectious Diseases, STAT (Pending) National Science Funding Body Representative Moderator: Rick Weiss, Director, SciLine |
Saturday, 5 September
| 08.30 – 10.00 EuroScience Virtual room | How Clusters and Ecosystems help to connect Science and Business | Speakers Antonio Novo Guerrero, President of the European Clusters Alliance Athanasios Konstandopoulos Aerosol & Particle Technology Laboratory Director of CERTH Bianca Muntean, Cluster Manager, Transylvania IT Cluster Ulla Engelmann, Head of Unit in DG GROW, the Directorate General being responsible for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, at the European Commission Moderator Teodora Jilkova, ECEA, Veritas Cluster, Bulgaria |
| 10.15 – 11.45 EuroScience Virtual Room | Misinformation: An age old problem or a global threat to health | Earlier this year WHO announced that we were in the grip of an infodemic. Research suggests that misinformation is a growing problem and a global threat to health. Others would argue that it is not a bigger problem, but that it is simply more visible. In this session we hear from three speakers whose work cuts across trust, truth, news, and user-centred design to hear their perspectives, and discuss what the health and research sector should do to step-up to this challenge. Organiser: Carla Ross, Wellcome Trust |
| 12.00 – 13.30 EuroScience Virtual Room | Select Europe’s best young researchers | Speakers: Michael Bossetta, Marie Curie postdoc scholarship at Lund U Francisco Valente Gonçalves, PhD student at Leicester U Sophus Helle, doctoral student at Aarhus U, Denmark Valentina Sessini, Elaine Toomey, Associate Director at Cochrane Ireland María Viñas, postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Optics of the Spanish Research Council Moderators: Svend Erik Larsen, Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University Stephane Berghmans, EuroScience Governing Board Member |
| 12.00 – 13.30 Room 27B Hybrid format | Who is responsible for transferable skills and how can RRI and Open Science help? | Onsite Speakers Teresa Fernandez Zafra, member of EuroScience Governing Board Ana Slavec, European Council for Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc) Remoter speakers Manuel Gómez Herrero, Unit C2 “Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions” (MSCA) of the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC) of the EC Ivo Grigorov, Technical University of Denmark Onsite Moderator Brian Cahill, member of EuroScience Governing Board Remote moderator Katie Wheat, Universities and Colleges Employers’ Association |
| 14.30 – 16.00 EuroScience Virtual Room | Raising the standard of excellence in Hungarian basic research | Speakers: Dr. Antal Nikodémusz, head of Network Development and International Relations, ELKH, Dr. Adrien Szendrey, Head of Unit for international relations, ELKH, Gabriella Verboszki, policy analyst, unit of international relations, ELKH, Moderator: Miklos Györffi |
| 16.15 – 17.45 EuroScience Virtual Room | Voice of Early-Career Researchers on Research Culture | Speakers: Catherine Martin from Luxembourg is a PhD student at the University of Hohenheim. Travel Grant from FNR. She previously worked as the secretary of a research group and has experience of supporting foreign researchers to integrate into their new environment. Ibon Santiago from Spain is a Humboldt Fellow at the TU Munich. Travel Grant from Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Stiftung. Alexander Cruz from the Philippines is a PhD Student at KU Leuven. Travel Grant from FWO. Chloë Deelkens from Belgium recently graduated from Master’s degree in Biomedical Science at the University of Hasselt and is currently looking for a PhD position. Travel Grant from FWO. Moderator: Brian Cahill, member of EuroScience Governing Board |
| 18.00 – 19.30 Venue to be confirmed | Friends of ESOF and EuroScience Reception |
