World Expo 2010 Shanghai "Better City, Better Life"
In the context of the World Expo 2010 (1st May to 31st October 2010), Shanghai, China, the ERC will participate in various session held during the European Science and Technology week from 14th June to 18th June 2010 and will address both the Scientific Community, the public and the international, national and local media.
The following ERC activities are:
1) ERC session 4: "Europe for Researchers: funding top talent from around the world"
Date : Tuesday, 15th June 2010
Time: 5pm - 6pm
Location: Auditorium of the European Pavilion
Speakers:
-Prof. Andreu Mas-Colell, European Research Council (ERC) Secretary General
-Dr Jack Metthey, ERC Executive Agency, Director (ad.int.)
-Prof. Alain Peyraube, ERC Scientific Council Member
Chinese and European ERC grantees:
"Environmental Improvement by Detecting the Minimum Harmful Concentration of Atmospheric Contamination"
ERC Starting grantee Prof. Yong Lei, Institute of Materials Physics and Centre for Nanotechnology, University of Muenster, Germany
"A 3 months trip, 13.000 km,…without a driver. From Italy to Shanghai!"
ERC Advanced grantee Prof. Alberto Broggi, VisLab – University of Parma, Italy
"Linguistics and Chinese: Pitch Variation in Tonal Languages"
ERC Starting grantee Prof. Yiya Chen, University of Leiden, the Netherlands
2) ERC Press briefing "European Research Council, boosting EU frontier research" and Interview opportunity with Dr Jack Metthey, ERC Executive Agency, Director (ad.int.), Prof. Andreu Mas-Colell, European Research Council (ERC) Secretary General, Prof. Alain Peyraube, ERC Scientific Council Member, and 3 ERC grantees.
Date : Wednesday, 16th June 2010
Time: 6pm - 7pm
Location: Auditorium of the European Pavilion
- ERC Advanced grantee Prof. Alberto Broggi, VisLab – University of Parma, Italy
- ERC Starting grantee Prof. Yiya Chen, University of Leiden, the Netherlands
- ERC Starting grantee Prof. Yong Lei, Institute of Materials Physics and Centre for Nanotechnology, University of Muenster, Germany
CV Prof. Yong Lei
3) In addition to the EU Science and Technology week, and in the context of its outreach policy, several ERC representatives will visit Beijing and Tsinghua Universities to promote the ERC and its funding possibilities and will meet with the China National Natural Science Foundation and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
