Day 1 (Tuesday, 13. May 2025)
10:00 – 11:00
Arrival & Registration with Coffee & Tea
11:00 – 11:30
“Building bridges, strengthening trust”: Opening session
Speakers: Tine Ravn (POIESIS), Hub Zwart (IANUS), Agata Gurzawska (VERITY), Georgios Papanagnou (Policy Officer, European Commission)
11:30 – 12:00
“Fostering Trust in Science?” (TBC): Keynote
Speaker: Michael Arentoft (Head of Unit DGRI, European Commission)
12:00 – 13:00
Setting the scene: Trust in Science in and beyond the sister projects:
Moderator: Steffi Friedrichs
Dr Steffi Friedrichs, Founder & Director of AcumenIST SRL, has been a leading expert, policy advisor and business representative for emerging technological innovation for over 20 years.
Steffi made a name for herself as the founder and Director-General of the Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA) group, where she established novel, collaborative approaches to the political representation of technology-based companies.
Having thus initiated numerous large-scale public-private collaborations and created channels for industries’ contributions to both international and national regulatory processes, Steffi subsequently worked for the OECD, where she developed its definition, indicators and impact assessment of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and other converging technologies, and led two international technology policy workshops on genome editing.
Wishing to support the advancement of transparent, science-based policy-making, Steffi gathered a strong track record in the establishment, development and representation of technology-based companies, and created and ran participatory technology assessment workshops. She initiated several outreach and communication initiatives to foster the public understanding of novel technologies. She was a Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Micro- & Nanotechnology Community (CMNC), Director of the Master’s Programme in Micro- and Nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge, and Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry and Solid State Chemistry at the University of Oxford.
Speakers: Hub Zwart (IANUS), Tine Ravn (POIESIS), Agata Gurzawska (VERITY)
Commentator: René von Schomberg
Dr. Dr.phil. René von Schomberg is a philosopher and STS scholar. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at RWTH Aachen University.
He was an European Commission official from 1998-2021. He is author/co-editor of 15 books, among other, the first editor of the International Handbook on Responsible Innovation. A Global Resource (2019). He has worked extensively on the issues of science-for-policy, research and innovation policy, deliberative democracy, technology assessment, ethical and socio-economic aspects of emerging technologies, the precautionary principle, open science and responsible innovation. He is running a blog with free OA resources: http://renevonschomberg.wordpress.com.
He also authored the recently published ‘Trust as Governance Challenge for Science for Policy Ecosystems’, which was prepared for a mutual learning exercise with 16 EU Member States. Free down load here https://doi.org/10.2777/6569914.
LinkedIn profile:
Rene Von Schomberg – Kate Hamburger Kolleg Cultures of Research RWTH University of Aachen | LinkedIn
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:15
Advancing Policy, Implementing Recommendations: IANUS, POIESIS, and VERITY’s three-year journey
Moderator: Steffi Friedrichs
Speakers: Georgios Papanagnou (Policy Officer, European Commission)
15:15 – 15:30
Introduction to the Concept & Format of the World Café Session
Speaker: Eleni Spyrakou
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee & Tea Break
16:00 – 18:00
Co-Creative World Café of ‘Trust in Science’
Moderator: VERITY (TBC)
Rapporteurs: TBC
from 18:00 …
Walking Dinner (until 20:00)
Day 2 (Wednesday, 14. May 2025)
09:00 – 10:30
Reporting of the main Outcomes, Discussions and Highlights of the World Café
Moderator: Hendrik Berghäuser, Declan Kirrane (Science Summit, UN)
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee & Tea Break – – Departure of the non project partners
11:00 – 13:00
CLOSED Meetings (project partners only)
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 18:00
CLOSED Meetings (project partners only)
The VERITY – IANUS – POIESIS Sister Project Joint Final Event will be held at:
Talk C.E.C.
Chaussee de Wavre 143
1050 Ixelles (Brussels), Belgium
Practical Information
How to get to Talk C.E.C.:
Use public transport, if possible.
Accommodation:
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