The European Research Council (ERC) will bring science to the discussions at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, from 15 to 19 January. The theme of this year’s edition is “Rebuilding trust”. ERC-funded researchers Professors Johan Rockström, Joyeeta Gupta and Martin Vetteri will share their latest scientific insights, and ERC President Professor Maria Leptin participates in several sessions, such as on “Europe’s Rush to Innovate” (16 January 8:15)  and a session part of the WEF Open Forum programme on "R&D disrupted".

Joyeeta Gupta will take part in a livestreamed session on “Out of Balance with Water“ (17 January 15:00) and Johan Rockström will speak in a session "Alpine Economies at +2C ", also livestreamed (18 January 15:00 – 15:30).

There will also be a side-event - “Fact & Fiction: Protecting Democracies in the 21st Century" – with Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo; Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya; Nobel Laureate, astrophysicist Brian Schmid; climate scientist, ERC grantee Johan Rockström and President Maria Leptin. This debate, hosted at the Belgium House in Davos, will serve as a kick-off ahead of the Nobel Prize Dialogue on 5 March in Brussels, which is a partnership between Nobel Prize Outreach and the ERC, and under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency of the EU.

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