Main programme

Opening Addresses

• László Lovász
  President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Sierd Cloetingh
  President, Academia Europaea
• Günter Stock
  President, ALLEA
• Marcel Swart
  Chair of Board, Young Academy of Europe

Prizes Ceremony and Lectures

• Academia Europaea Gold Medal
  Laureate lecture:
  Helga Nowotny: The Resilience of Science
  Laudatio by Enric Banda
• All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values
  Laureate lecture:
  Koen Lenaerts: The European Court of Justice in Times of Societal Change
  Laudatio by Sir David Edward

Reception
Krúdy Hall (for all participants) 

Conference dinner – FULLY BOOKED!
Academia Club (only for those with ticket)

Academia Europea Kondorosi Prize and Lecture

Allan Downie: Symbiotic nitrogen fixation: a paradigm for inter-kingdom signalling
Laudatio by Jens Stougaard

Frontiers of Science Lecture

Reinhard Jahn (Balzan Prize Laureate): How neurons talk to each other – about molecular machines and membranes
Chair: Ole Petersen

Plenary Session I [read more ]
Climate, Environment, Water and Future Earth
Moderator: Enric Banda, Barcelona

Speakers:      

• Georges Vachaud
  Directeur de Recherches Emérite, CNRS
  Some environmental and social impacts of climate change on the water cycle: from scarcity to submersion
• Kate Hendry
  University of Bristol, UK
  The physical, biological and chemical fingerprint of melting ice
• Steve Evans
  Director of research in Industrial Sustainability, University of Cambridge
  On the efficiency of our industrial system as a stakeholder in our natural system
• J. M. Antó
  Scientific director at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health
  The impacts of climate change in human health: a global bidirectional challenge

Lunch break

Plenary Session II [read more ]
Economy, Resources, Energy
Moderator: Andreu Mas-Colell, Barcelona

Speakers:      

• Yan Lavallée
  School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool
  Towards New Magma Monitoring and Energy Frontiers
• Jean-François Minster
  National Academy of Technology of France
  Projections for the Energy mix transformation; comparison between various approaches
• Frederick van der Ploeg
  Department of Economics, University of Oxford
  Dealing with conflicting view on global warming

Coffee break

Plenary Session III 
Europe: Culture, Heritage, Integrity, Resilience and Future
Moderators: Miklós Maróth, Piliscsaba-Budapest and David Edward, Edinburgh

Speakers:

• Paul Demeny
  HAS and Population Council, New York (ret.)
  Sustainability and resilience: Linkages to demography
• Ronald de Bruin
  Director of the COST Assocation, Brussels
  The COST Framework
• Eva Kondorosi
  Vice-President of the European Research Council
  Strengthening the European research system – the role of the ERC

Frontiers of Science Lecture

José van Dijck: European public values in a global online society
Chair: Ed Noort, Vice President, ALLEA

Coffee break

Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal presentation and 2017 Heinz-Nixdorf Erasmus Lecture:

Andreu Mas-Colell: Is the era of work ending?
Chair: Sierd Cloetingh
Laudatio by Sergiu Hart, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Young Academy Prize and Keynote Lecture:

Rianne Letschert: United in Diversity; on the role of team science in modern universities
Chair: Marcel Swart (Chair of Board, YAE)

Plenary Session IV
Health and Disease, Healthy Living
Moderators: Phillip Campbell and Ruth Arnon

Speakers:      

• Emily Holmes
  Psychology Unit, Karolinska Institutet
  Mental Health after Psychological Trauma: Refugees in Europe
• Martin Prince
  Health Services & Population Research, King’s College London
  Multimorbidity, Frailty and Dependence, and Their Applications to Promotion, Prevention and Delivery of Age-appropriate Healthcare in Low and Middle Income Countries
• Michal Schwartz
  Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot
  Targeting the innate and adaptive immunity in combating neurodegenerative diseases
• Mangala Srinivas
  Department of Tumor Immunology, Radboud University Medical Center
  Cellular Therapies in Europe: Current Status and Future Possibilities

Coffee break

Academy Showcase Session: Academies’ advice to policy-making – impact and strategies [read more ]
Moderator: Bärbel Friedrich, former Vice-President of German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Speakers:

• Roger Pfister
  Head of International Cooperation, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
  Climate hotspot Switzerland: scientific policy advice on resilience and mitigation measures
• Sherrie Forrest
  Senior Programme Officer, Program on Risk, Resilience, and Extreme Events; Policy and Global Affairs Division, US National Academy of Sciences
  Reimagining the Role of Academies in Building Resilience

Lunch break

Frontiers of Science Lecture:

Bertil Andersson, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: The Future of Universities
Chair: Balázs Gulyás

Plenary Session V
Scientific Advice (SAM/SAPEA)
Moderator: Sierd Cloetingh, President Academia Europaea

Speakers:

• Robert Jan Smits
  Director-General Research and Innovation EU
• Rolf-Dieter Heuer
  HLG Chair
• Günter Stock
  President ALLEA
• Yves Caristan
  Euro-CASE Secretary General
• Marcel Swart
  YAE Chair of Board
• Bärbel Friedrich
  Former Vice President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Academic Director of the Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Studies in Greifswald
• László Lovász
  HAS President
• Helen Wallace
  The British Academy

Plenary Session VI
Sustainability and Resilience of European Science
Moderators: Nicole Grobert University of Oxford and Stan Gielen, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

Speakers:

• Monica Dietl
  Science-Business, Brussels, Senior advisor for the Healthy Measures initiative
  No solid Research without Europe, no strong Europe without Research
• Alban Kellerbauer
  Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Heidelberg
  Resilience of fundamental research 
• Robert Jan Smits
  Director-General Research and Innovation EU
  European Science at the crossroads
• Jan-Wouter Vasbinder
  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  What if there were no universities?
• Alex Halliday
  The Royal Society, London
  International mobility, joint working and European research

Closing Remarks

• László Lovász
  President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Sierd Cloetingh
  President, Academia Europaea