Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2014 - “Summer Davos”

10 - 12 September 2014
2.00 - 2.00
Tianjin, China
World Economic Forum
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It will bring together more than 1,500 participants from 90 countries to share strategies and solutions and discuss global issues and risks. The New Champion communities – including Global Growth Companies, Young Global Leaders, Young Scientists, Technology Pioneers, Social Entrepreneurs and the World Economic Forum’s youngest community, the Global Shapers – will once again engage with Forum Members and Partners during the seventh Annual Meeting of the New Champions, to be held from 10-12 September in Tianjin, China. This year’s theme is “Creating Value through Innovation".

The World Economic Forum is an independent international organisation committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

See full ERC programme at the meeting

ERC participation

The ERC will again actively participate in sessions and debates. ERC President Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon and ERC Scientific Council member Prof. Dr Sierd Cloetingh will speak at the forum. This year, four grant winners will also represent the ERC:

  • Dr Aikaterina Fotopoulou, Reader (Associate Professor), Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom. ERC Starting Grant holder (2012)
  • Prof. Antoine Jerusalem, Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. ERC Starting Grant holder (2012)
  • Prof. Morten Overgaard, Professor, Head of Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit (CNRU), Co-Director of Danish Integrative Neuroscience Alliance (DINEA), University of Aarhus, Denmark. ERC Starting Grant holder (2009)
  • Prof. Panayiota Poirazi, Director of Research, Computational Biology Laboratory, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Greece. ERC Starting Grant holder (2012)

They will speak at the ERC Ideas Lab session on 10 September 2014 (10.15- 11.30am; Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Centre) addressing the question “how are breakthroughs in brain research transforming the future of health?”

Other ERC grant winners attending the meeting through Young Scientists Programme are:

  • Prof. Michael Bronstein, Assistant Professor, Institute of Computational Science, Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Switzerland. ERC Starting Grant holder (2012)
  • Dr Michelle Moram, Lecturer in Energy Materials, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Materials, Imperial College London, ERC Starting Grant holder (2012)
  • Dr Victor M. Panaretos, Associate Professor of Mathematical Statistics, EPFL, Switzerland, ERC Starting Grant holder (2010)
  • Dr Anna Scaife, Reader, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, the United Kingdom, ERC Starting Grant holder (2012)
  • Dr Suchitra Sebastian, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. ERC Starting Grant holder (2013)
  • Prof. Christoph Stampfer, Professor of Experimental Physics, Department of Physics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. ERC Starting Grant holder (2011)
  • Dr Sriram Subramanian, Professor of Human- Computer interaction, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, ERC Starting Grant holder (2011)

See speakers biographies

Press

ERC Press conference

Wednesday, 9:00 - 9:30, MCEC, press conference room

Speakers:

  • Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, ERC President
  • Sierd Cloetingh, Member of ERC Scientific Council
  • Aikaterina Fotopoulou, ERC Starting Grant holder, Associate Professor, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London (UCL)

They will be also available for interviews during the forum.

Press conference with the mentors of the New Champions Annual Meeting 2014 including ERC President Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

Wednesday, 14:00 - 14:30, MCEC, press conference room

 

For press requests, please contact: Madeleine Drielsma, ERC Press Adviser madeleine.drielsma@ec.europa.eu