28 May 2009

10h00 - 10h15 Opening

Prof. Dr. Jochen Schiller, Vice-President, Freie Universität, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Otto Theodor Iancu, President, Franco-German Forum
Jacky Chatelain, CEO, Apec

10h15-11h00 - Inaugural conference

Research in Europe: how to meet the challenges of the Lisbon strategy?

Moderator: Jan-Martin Wiarda, journalist, Die Zeit

Danièle Hervieu-Léger, Chairman at EHESS, President of the monitoring committee for the national Research and Innovation strategy, French ministry for Research
M.Martin Bohle, Head of Unit, DG Research, Directorate S, European Commission.
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Becker, vice-president of the Karlsruhe University

11h15 - 12h00 - Conference

The Key issues in Research for European companies for the next 20 years

Moderator: Jean-Marie Blanc, Apec

Jean-François Minster, Scientific director Total, previously Scientific director of CNRS
Michel Andrau, R&D and product policy director, Thales Alenia Space
Philippe Garderet, Scientific Director, Areva
Gabriel Artero, President, Apec

14h00 - 14h45 - Personal account: “My life as researcher, as a female researcher”

Moderator: Catherine Belin-Levi, journalist Courrier Cadres Magazine

Malgorzata Tkatchenko, Head of the institute of CEA biomedical imaging and Director of the CEA centre of Fontenay-aux-Roses.
Christine Kurmeyer, “Charité” University medicine, Berlin
Leire Oro-Urrea, Researcher, Research Center of Solaize, Total.

15h00 - 15h45 - Round-table

Companies, research centres and universities: How can they work together?


Moderator: Prof. Dr. Otto Theodor Iancu, President of Franco-German Forum an Vice-President of Franco-German University

Dr. Joachim Weissmüller, Direction Bayer CropScience SA Research and Bayer CropScience Research Fungicides
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Becker, Vice-president of the Karlsruhe University and Director of Institut KIT-ITIV
Prof. Dr. Marcel Berveiller, ENSAM Metz, formerly in charge of Carnot program at ANR
Hervé Fanet, Director of Institut Carnot CEA-LETI

16h00-16h45 – Round-table: Researchers and company: how to understand each other?

How do researchers figure out working in a company? How to help doctorate to integrate companies? What are the expected skills?

Moderator: Catherine Beilin-Levi, journalist Courrier Cadres Magazine

Nadia Koltcheva, Eurodoc Vice-president: results of the last European survey on doctorate status
Paule Biaudet, Associate Professor, Head of the House of doctoral schools, University Pierre and Marie Curie
Stéphane Demarquette, HR Executive – R & D Worldwide, L’Oréal
Josée Paradis, Direktor EMEA, Kelly Scientific Resources