ERC – a Success Story for Europe

12:45

Registration

13:00

Welcome by Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President of the European Research Council (ERC) and by the host of the event Eva Kondorosi, Vice‑President of ERC and Chair of the ERC Scientific Council Working Group on Widening European Participation

13:15

Challenges for Inclusiveness in Frontier Research
Helga Nowotny, former President of ERC

13:35

Spreading Research Excellence in Europe: Perspectives of Academia Europaea
Sierd Cloetingh, President of Academia Europaea, former ERC Vice‑President

13:50

ERC Grantee Testimony
Cognitive aging in dogs: an interdisciplinary approach
Enikő Kubinyi
Speaker from YAE

14:05

Q&A session with the speakers

14:40

Coffee break

15:00

Panel discussion: Perspectives on Inclusiveness in ERC Competitions by the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities
Moderator: Jerzy Duszynski, President of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Panellists:

• László Lovász
  President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Eva Zažímalová
  President of the Czech Academy of Sciences
• Catherine Cesarsky
  Vice-President for International Relations of the French Academy of Sciences
• Martin Grötschel
  President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
• Peter Kennedy
  President of the Royal Irish Academy

15:55

Concluding remarks
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President of ERC