Marie Curie Actions Conf
Feb
16
Marie Curie Actions Conference
| Marie Curie Actions Conference: Tuesday 10th July 2012 | |||
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| Time | Activity | Speakers | Room/Location |
| 08h00-09h00 | Registration | Hostesses | Hall |
| 09h00-09h30 | Welcome | Keynote speakers: High Commission official to deliver a speech (tbc) Professor Patrick Cunningham, ESOF 2012 Champion | Plenary Room Wicklow Hall 2 |
| 09h30-10h00 | The added value of researchers in European Economy | Keynote speaker: Martin Hynes, CEO European Science Foundation | Plenary Room Wicklow Hall 2 |
| 10h00-10h30 | Coffe break | Hall | |
| 10h30-11h45 | Session on Innovatio, including "Social" innovation | Marie Curie Projects | Plenary Room Wicklow Hall 2 |
| 11h45-13h00 | Science Journalism | Speakers: Pallab Ghosh, BBC Science Correspondent Veronique Morin, independent Science Journalist James Gillies, CERN Spokesman | Plenary Room Wicklow Hall 2 |
| 13h00-14h30 | Lunch | ||
| 14h30-15h30 | Workshop: European Patent Office | Speaker: Noël Campling, Director, European Patent Academy, Germany | Plenary Room Wicklow Hall 2 |
| 15h30-17h30 (coffee break at 16h15-16h45) | Parallel Sessions Workshops on Communication and Outreach | ||
| Session 1 Writing a press release/Get your name in the newspapers | Speakers: Luis García Domínguez, REA communication officer James Gillies, CERN Spokesman | Wicklow Meeting Room 2 | |
| Session 2 Exploiting social media as a researcher to promote your work and broaden your network | Speakers: Representative from Google (tbc) Veronique Sordet, People Network+ Anna Llanes Pallas, Member of SUPERIOR project | Wicklow Meeting Room 1 | |
| Session 3 Tips to draft outstanding applications to EU calls | Speakers: Sean Mc Carthy, Hyperion Louise Byrne, REA project officer | Plenary Room Wicklow Hall 2 |
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| Session 4 Speaking confidently to a non-scientific audience | Speakers: Yi Ling Hwong, MCA Fellow, CERN Tim Conrad NANOPOLY project | Wicklow Meeting Room 3 | |
| 17h30-19h30 | Free time to go to the RDS venue (Fellows to travel alone) | ||
| 19h30- 22h30 | Buffet Dinner at RDS | Dinner | |
| Marie Curie Actions Conference: Wednesday 11th July 2012 | |||
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| Time | Activity | Speaker | Room/Location |
| 9h00 10h45 | Presentation of the Marie Curie Actions under Horizon 2020 | Speakers: Alessandra Luchetti, Head of Unit Marie Curie Actions, European Commission Conor O'Carroll, Irish Universities Associations Uwe David, Kowi Member | Plenary Room Wicklow Hall 2 |
| 10h45-11h15 | Coffee Break | Hall | |
| 11h15-12h30 | Digital poster session and networking | Selection of 20 posters by a panel of experts for each category | Poster Area |
| 12h30-14h00 | Lunch break | ||
| 14h00-15h30 | Are you up to the challenge: Presenting your project in 3 minutes | Participants will have to gather in sub group in the room according to their panel. In each panel, one fellow will be randomly selected (lottery), and will be asked to make a 3 minutes presentation of its research project so that everybody understand what it is about. A science communication expert will provide some advices, and the public will be invited to react. | Plenary Room Wicklow Hall 2 |
| 15h30-16h00 | Concluding remarks | Speaker: Jordi Curell Gotor, Director of Lifelong Learning Programme; Marie Curie Actions, EC | Plenary Room Wicklow Hall 2 |
