STOA-ERC event: 'Investing in researchers, shaping Europe's future'

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Provisional Programme

8.30 - 9.00 Welcome coffee/tea

9.00 – 9.35 Opening and welcome

• Eva Kaili, STOA Chair
• Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, ERC President
• Prof. Alina Badescu, ERC grantee, Polytechnic University of Bucharest
• Wolfgang Burtscher, Deputy Director-General, DG Research and Innovation

9.35 – 10.20 Panel session on smart agriculture/food

• Moderator: Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, ERC President
• MEPs: Martin Häusling (Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance) and Jan Huitema (Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe)
• ERC grantees: Prof. Boaz Pokroy, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel and  Dr Ana Isabel Caño Delgado, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Spain

10.20 – 11.05 Panel session on migration/demography

• Moderator: Angela Liberatore, Head of Unit for Social Sciences and Humanities, ERC Executive Agency
• MEP: Eva Kaili, STOA Chair
• ERC grantees: Prof. Steven Vertovec, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany and Prof. Vanessa Grotti, European University Institute, Italy

11.05 – 11.50 Panel session on CRISPR

• Moderator: Margaret Buckingham, ERC Scientific Council Member
• MEP: Paul Rübig, STOA First Vice-Chair
• ERC grantees: Prof. Holger Puchta, Karlsruher Institute for Technology, Germany and Dr Laura Cancedda, Fondaziones Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy

11.50 Special remarks

• Jean Arthuis, Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

12:00 Closing remarks

• Paul Rübig, STOA First Vice-Chair