Draft Agenda
DAY 1,11th oct: Morning session
Outlooks for the Bioeconomy |
| 9:00h | Welcome; | CommNet chair Rhonda Smith
Food Cluster Initiative (FCI) chair Professor Xavier Gellynck
Moderation: Geoff Watts, freelance science writer and broadcaster BBC |
| 9:10h | Introduction | European Commission, Ciaran Mangan, DG Research |
| 9:25h | Keynote I | Green Global Growth – food and environment perspectives
MEP Judith A. Merkies, ENVI and ITRE committee European Parliament |
| 9:45h | KeynoteII | Knowledge-driven Food Innovation “Unlocking the power of wheat”
Bettina Zeuch, Product Manager, Kampffmeyer Food Innovation GmbH, Hamburg |
| 10:10h | | NETWORKING COFFEE – SCIENCE MEETS POLITICS |
| | | Chair: Atti Vassarotti, European Commission Moderator : Geoff Watts, freelance science writer and broadcaster BBC |
| 10:30h | Dialogue: | Expectations on the knowledge-transfer – science –industry. Top-line topic
What is lacking most ? |
| | | Dialoge with Bettina Zeuch, Food Industry; |
| | | Françoise Gorga, European Technology Platform, ETP, “Food for Life” |
| | | Gert Huemer, « UEAPME », SME-association |
| 10:45h | Panel: | Food, Wellbeing, Environment – drivers or issues of concern? |
| | | Discussion with MEP Maria da Graça Carvalho, ITRE committee EP;
Ciaran Mangan, EU Commission, Françoise Gorga, ETP |
| | | Bettina Zeuch,Food Industry, Gert Huemer, SMEassociation |
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| 12:00h | | LUNCH BREAK; FAB/FCI-networking arena with thematic meeting spots |
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DAY 1, 11th Oct. : AFTERNOON SESSION
Workshops of EU Research Projects |
| | | Chair of the afternoon session: Professor Judith Butriss, British Nutrition Foundation
Moderator: Geoff Watts , journalist
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| 14:10h | Transfer reports / Transfer talk | Technology Transfer Dialogue between EU projects and experts |
| | | Projects demonstrate transfer experiences: PROSPARE (Stefano Sforza),
TeRIFIQ (Christian Salles), FIBEBIOTECS (Juriann Mes),
EUROFIR/NuGO (Siân Astley);CONFFIDENCE (Stefan van Leeuwen),
PlantLIBRA ( Alejandro Rodarte)
Tech-transfer experts give feedback: ttz (Christian Colmer), aqua TT (Gill Marmelstein); DIL (Kerstin Lienemann), UGent(Benedikt Sas) |
| 15:45 | | NETWORKING COFFEE |
| 16:00h | Trend report I | Nutrition and nutrigenomics – new trends in open data access |
| | | André Boorsma, TNO-Institute, Netherlands |
| 16:20h | Trend report II | Food Security – a macro and a micro issue for adaptations Heather Mckhann, JPI-FACCE (Food, Agri,Climate), INRA Paris |
| 16:40h | Dialogue/Open Debate | What do the mega-trends mean for future research/business?
Academia and Industry assessing the trend themes
(with Francis Butler, UC Dublin, SAFEFOOD; Carl Lachat, UGent, SUNRAY, Caspar Zulim De Zwarte, JPI-HDHL(Healthy Diet, Healthy Life; ) (tbc); Xavier Gellynck, NETGROW, et.al
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| 17:40h | | Network Reports Global challenge “obesity vs. malnutrition”: How regions and multidisciplinar projects address manifold stakeholders. The “AFRESH” project case - Changes at work – nutrition, excercises, behaviour (Daniela Kahlert, Stuttgart University) - Food aid and food access – the example of short supply chains (Dominque Paturel, INRA , Montpellier) |
| 18:15h | | Wrapping – up of Day I and outlook Day II Rhonda Smith, chair of CommNet and Sylvia Schreiber, FCI communication |
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| 18:30h | | NETWORKING COCKTAIL |
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DAY 2, 12th Oct. :MORNING SESSION
The Food Cluster Initiative (FCI) and regional impacts in bioeconomy |
| | Chair of Day Two | Xavier Gellynck, Gent University, FCI Chair |
| | Moderation | Sylvia Schreiber , FCI communication |
| 9:00 | Welcome | Xavier Gellynck, Gent University, FCI Chair |
| 9:05 | Introduction | Capacities in Nutrtion Research
Alexandra Tuitelaars, DG Research & innovation |
| 9:35h | | JOINT ACTIONS TO BOOST BIO ECONOMY, WELL-BEING AND ENVIRONMENT IN REGIONS REGIONAL ACTIONS TO MEET SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Health related lifestyle changes for four target groups – the multidisciplinary “AFRESH”- Joint Action Plan, Sylvie Albert, Agropolis - Childrens` programmes for active growth – Stuart Fairclough, John Moors University - Diet-related disease prevention benefitting from regional sports events – Thijs Eisvogel, Radboud Universiteit Dialogue: Capacity Building in the Food-and Well-Being Clusters: What is lacking most? FROM RESEARCH POTENTIAL TO ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIONS |
| 10:45h | | Knowledge Transfer in Eastern Europe and in the Mediterranian Regions The Research-to-AgrofoodSME(RAF)-Regions and Inno–Food Southeast Europe - Food innovation clusters, Nikos Giannoulidis, Euroconsultants S.A.
Transfer cases in the Inno-Food Southeast Europe Cluster |
| 11:15h | | Coffee break |
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| 11:30h | | SME support in the future HORIZON 2020 programme
Bernd Reichert, EU Commission, DG Research & Innovation |
| 11:50h | | New horizontal actions: Ideas of future research communication, EU Commission
Discussion: Exchange of views with representatives from the EU Commission |
| 12:30h | | WRAPPING UP and CLOSING OF CONFERENCE |
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