This year’s European Research and Innovation Days will focus on discussing and shaping new solutions to strengthen Europe’s resilience and its strategic autonomy. Join the event to debate about research and innovation. Youth, the richness of European cultural creativity, the EU Missions and many more topics.
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The ERC will organize and participate in the following joint sessions:
11:00 – 11:45 | From lab to market – connecting research, technology and innovation
Moderated by Nektarios Tavernarakis, Governing Board Chair, European Institute of Innovation and Technology and ERC Vice President
Speakers:
Maria Leptin
President, European Research Council
Mark Ferguson
Chairman, European Innovation Council
José Capmany
Professor of Photonics at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and co-founder of iPronics, Programmable Photonics
Bertrand van Ee
CEO of Hardt Hyperloop
14:00 – 14:45 | Enhancing trust in science – a conversation with researchers
Chaired by Angela Liberatore, Head of the Scientific Department, ERCEA
Speakers:
Jacob Sherson
Professor at the Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences and ERC grantee
Tomomi Fushiya
Associate Professor, University of Warsaw
Aurélie Lacroix
Senior Scientist, Sixfold Bioscience
Gian Maria Greco
Board Member, Marie Curie Alumni Association
ERC-funded projects that will be featured in the Research and Innovation Exhibition
Cities Mission
TRAMAN21 has been running tests on a highway near Melbourne, Australia, and is currently using variable speed limits and ramp metering to actively intervene in traffic to improve flows. The tests have proven successful in offering a smoother and more efficient journey for motorists in an age when road congestion is of paramount importance for everybody who lives in cities. Cooperation between vehicle intelligent transport systems via connected vehicles provides a solution.
Read the ERC story here
