ESOF - Euroscience open forum 2022

ESOF, created by EuroScience in 2004, is the largest biennial interdisciplinary meeting on science and innovation in Europe, for and with society. It brings together some 4,500 leading thinkers, innovators, policy makers, journalists and educators from more than 90 countries, to discuss current and future breakthroughs in contemporary science.

This year, the ERC will be present at ESOF with a rich programme.

ESOF Exhibition:

The ERC will be present at the EU pavilion in Pieterskerk together with two comic artists who participated in the ERCcOMICS campaign, based on the power of visual storytelling to communicate science in an engaging way to reach large audiences.

The exhibition is open
to ESOF participants: Thursday 14 July 08:00 to Saturday 16 July 18:30 
to the general public: from 14:00 and the whole day of Saturday 16 July

Wednesday 13 July

16:30 - 18:00 | Opening ceremony 
Stadsgehoorzaal
Keynote speech by Maria Leptin, ERC President  

18:00 - 19:30 | Opening of the exhibition 
Pieterskerk

Thursday 14 July 

09.15 - 09.45 | Goodmorning Talkshow
ESOF studio - Pieterskerk

• Maria Leptin
• Ewine van Dishoek, Leiden University, NL

13.15 - 13.45 | ERC Press Conference
with ERC President Maria Leptin, ERC Scientific Council member and Nobel laureate Ben Feringa and ERC Scientific Council member Dirk Inze.
Stadsgehoorzaal

16:00 - 17:00 | ERC Public Engagement with Research Award Ceremony
Stadsgehoorzaal

The Award aims to recognise ERC grantees who make the extra effort to engage with audiences beyond the scientific community and do so in effective and original ways.
During the ceremony, a prize of €10 000 will be awarded to the best applicant in each of three different categories: Involve (citizen science), Inspire (public outreach) and Influence (media and policy)

Speakers: 

• Robbert Dijkgraaf, Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science
• Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth (video-message)
• Maria Leptin, ERC President
• Eveline Crone, ERC Vice-President

Have your say!
Find out who the award finalists are and vote for your favourite project. The most popular public engagement activity will receive a “special mention” at the Award Ceremony that will be streamed on YouTube (free) or on the ESOF platform (for registered participants).

Friday 15 July

15:15 | ERC grants for researchers from all over the world Q&A session
ESOF studio -Pieterskerk

• Tony Lockett, Head of Communication, ERC executive agency

Saturday 16 July

08:00 - 09:15 | Musica universalis: from brains to stars
Kamerlingh Onnes Building (KOG) - Lorentzzaal
Hybrid session (onsite event in Leiden broadcasted to the ESOF2022 online platform) 

Moderator: Janka Matrai, Scientific Officer at ERCEA
ERC grantees:

• Adam Denes, Institute of Experimental Medicine Budapest, HU  
• Ágnes Kóspál, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, HU
• Jaroslav Nesetril, Charles University Prague, CZ  
• Ingo Waldmann, University College London, UK 

09:45 - 11:00 | Reclaiming your own voice: humanities methods to address the fluidity and complexity of identities in (post)colonial contexts
Kamerlingh Onnes Building (KOG) - Lorentzzaal
Hybrid session (onsite event in Leiden broadcasted to the ESOF2022 online platform)

Moderator: Prof. Margaret Hunt, Uppsala University, SE 
ERC grantees:

• Khadija Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham, UK              
• Ananya Jahanara Kabir, King's College London, UK
• J. Griffith Rollefson, National University of Ireland - University College Cork, IE 
• Justyna Agnieszka Olko, University of Warsaw, PL

09:45 - 11:00 |Current Research Trends towards solving Antimicrobial Resistance
Online session (hosted on the conference virtual platform)

Moderator: András Badacsonyi, Scientific Officer at ERCEA
ERC grantees:

• Csaba Pál, Biological Research Center, HU
• Éva Kondorosi, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence, HU 
• Li Deng, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, DE

ERC Scientific Council members and other ERC grantees speaking at ESOF:
 

Thursday 14 July 

08:00 - 09:15 | Tax justice in Europe and beyond 

• Irma Mosquera Valderrama, Leiden University, NL

14:15 - 15:15 | Keynote: Space for Science 

• Ben Feringa, University of Groningen, NL

15:45 - 17:00 | Researchers’ perspectives are crucial to reform the research assessment problem

• Toma Susi, University of Vienna, AU

15:45 - 17:00 | First Results from Webb: A New Exploration of the Cosmos

• Ewine van Dishoek, Leiden University, NL

Friday 15 July

14:00 - 15:15 | The quantum revolution 

• Barbara Terhal, Delft University of Technology, NL
• Ronald Hanson, Delft University of Technology, NL

17:15 - 18:30 | The secret life in our gut and how it influences health and disease

• Falk Hildebrand, Quadram Institute and Earlham Insitute, Norwich, UK

17:15 - 18:30 | Engaging researchers in the net-zero transition 

• Mikael Östling, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, SE
• Gisou Van Der Goot, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne - EPFL, CH