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WEDNESDAY 19th October

Venue: Hotel Passage, Lidická 23, 602 00 Brno

08:00 – 18:00 Registration Open

12:00 – 13:30 LUNCH

13:30 – 15:30 PLENARY 1: Opening and Introduction

ROOM: GRAND PASSAGE BALLROOM

MODERATOR: Daniel STACH, Journalist, Presenter, Science Communicator, Czech Television

Vladimír BALAŠ, Minister of  Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic

Mariya GABRIEL, European Commissioner for  Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth

Claire SAMSON, Vice-President,  Programs and Planning, Canada Foundation for Innovation

Imraan PATEL, Deputy Director-General: Research Development and Support, South African Department of Science and Innovation

Claudia ROMANO, Manager of the Uruguayan Agency for International Cooperation

Cathy FOLEY, Australia's Chief Scientist, Australian Government

Signe RATSO, Acting Director-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission

 

15:30 – 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

16:00 – 18:00 PLENARY 2: Research Infrastructures Addressing Grand Societal Challenges (1st part)

ROOM: GRAND PASSAGE BALLROOM

MODERATOR: Daniel STACH, Journalist, Presenter, Science Communicator, Czech Television

I. COVID-19 and pandemics of infectious diseases

16:00 – 17:00

Edith HEARD, Director General, European Molecular Biology Laboratory  

Franciska de JONG, Executive Director, Common LAnguage Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN ERIC), Europe

Theresa PATTERY, Vice President, Head of Disease Management Programs, Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V. (Johnson & Johnson), Global Public Health R&D, Belgium

Pierre DELSAUX, Director-General  of European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA), European Commission

II. Environment, climate change and mitigation

17:00 – 18:00

Roberta MARINELLI, Director of  the Office of Polar Programs, U.S. National Science Foundation

Mary-Jane BOPAPE, Managing Director of the South African Environmental Observation Network, National  Research Foundation

Hugh POSSINGHAM, Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network Advisory Board Chair and Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia

Adrian STANICA, Coordinator, International Centre for Advanced Studies on River-Sea Systems (DANUBIUS RI), Romania

THURSDAY 20th October

Venue: Hotel Passage, Lidická 23, 602 00 Brno

7:00 – 18:00 Registration Open

7:30 – 8:45 EARLY MORNING SESSION: Challenge Based Frameworks to Enhance National Research Infrastructures Impact

ROOM: LARGE 2

MODERATOR: Sarah BROWN, Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources (DISER), Australian Government

Susie ROBINSON, Executive Director, Australian Plant Phenomics Facility

Gelsomina PAPPALARDO, Director of the Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IMAA), Italy and Executive Board Member of  the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI)

Ronald ROBERTS, Deputy Chief Officer for Research Facilities at the National Science Foundation, USA

María Natalia LISA, Head of the Centre for Structural Biology at CeBEM  (Mercosur Center for Structural Biology), Latin America

Lia PIETRASANTA, Associate Professor, Universityof Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

9:00 – 10:30 GRAND SOCIETAL CHALLENGES PARALLEL SESSIONS

I. COVID-19 and pandemics of infectious diseases

ROOM: LARGE 3

MODERATOR: Jana KOLAR, Chair ofEuropean Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures

Nahla AFIFI, Director of the Qatar Biobank

Carlos BATTHYÁNY DIGHIERO, Executive Director, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay

Ewan HARRISON, Deputy Director, COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK), Group Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge

Caterina BISCARI, Director of the ALBA Synchrotron, Spain

II. Environment, climate change and mitigation

ROOM: LARGE 2

MODERATOR: Gelsomina PAPPALARDO, Director of the Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IMAA), Italy and Executive Board Member of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI)

Gary W. MILLER, Vice Dean for Research Strategy and Innovation, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA

Benoît PIRENNE, Director, User Engagement, Oceans Network Canada, an Initiative of the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Nicolaus HANOWSKI, Head of Earth Observation and Missions Management & Ground Segments Department, European Space Agency

Sanna SORVARI  SUNDET, Vice President, Research Infrastructure  Services Unit at Natural Resources Institute Finland

III. Data and Digitalisation of Society

ROOM: GRAND PASSAGE BALLROOM

MODERATOR: Michael ARENTOFT, Head of Unit for Open Science, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, European Commission

Thomas GEENEN, Technology Partnership Lead for Destination Earth, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather  Forecasts

Hanifeh KHAYYERI, Vice President Computer Science at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Tshiamo MOTSHEGWA, Department of Computer  Science, University of Botswana

Michihiko MINOH, Director, RIKEN  Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters (R-IH), Japan

 

10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 – 12:30 PARALLEL THEMES, BLOCK 1

Parallel Theme A: Societal and Economic Benefits and impact of Research Infrastructures

PT A/1: Communicating Successes and Raising Awareness Among Decision Makers, their Influencers, and the Public

ROOM: GRAND PASSAGE BALLROOM

MODERATOR: Michael O’Neill, Canada Foundation for Innovation

Bryony BUTLAND, Programme Director, United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Claire SAMSON, Vice-President,  Programs and Planning, Canada Foundation for Innovation

Daniel STACH, Journalist, Presenter, Science Communicator, Czech Television, Czech Republic

Karl TISCHLER, Head of Communication, EUROfusion

Parallel Theme B: Multi-scale Ecosystem of Research Infrastructures

PT B/1: Multi-scale  Ecosystem – Fostering Cooperation Between Facilities at Different Scales

ROOM: LARGE 2

MODERATOR: Ondřej HRADIL, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Julia Fernandez RODRIGUEZ, President, Core Technologies for Life Sciences, Sweden

Rodrigo PORTUGAL, Group Leader, Head of Cryo-EM Facility, Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory  (LNNano), National Center for Energy and Materials Research (CNPEM), Brazil

Obed M. OGEGA, Programmes Manager, African Academy of Sciences

Jacques DEMOTES, Director General, European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (ECRIN-ERIC)

Louise WILLINGALE, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Gérard Mourou Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Parallel Theme C: Research Infrastructures and Sharing Scientific Data Globally  

PT C/1: Data Sharing - Global Initiatives

ROOM: LARGE 1

MODERATOR: Karel LUYBEN, President, European Open Science Cloud Association

Michael ARENTOFT, Head of Unit for Open Science, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, European Commission

Simon HODSON, Executive Director, CODATA, The Committee on Data of the International Science Council, France

Karen PAYNE, Associate Director for International Technology, World Data System, International Technology Office at the University of Victoria, Canada

Jean-Claude BURGELMAN, Academic Director and Professor of Open Science, Free University of Brussels, Belgium

Gabriela MEJIAS, Community Manager, DataCite, Germany  

Parallel Theme D: Transnational  Access to Research Infrastructures  

PT D/1: Principles for Enabling International Access to RIs

ROOM: LARGE 3

MODERATOR: Dominik SOBCZAK, DG R&I, European Commission

Matthew J. HAWKINS,  Head of Large Facilities Office, National Science Foundation, USA      

Elena HOFFERT, Executive Board Member, European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI)

Andrew HARRISON, Chief Executive Officer, Diamond Light Source LTD, UK / from November 2022, Director of Science, Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium)

Agnieszka CHŁOŃ-DOMIŃCZAK, Vice-Rector for Science and Director of the Institute of Statistics and Demography at SGH  Warsaw School of Economics and leader of the Polish research group at SHARE 50+ (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe)

Ornela de GIACOMO,  Deputy  Executive Director, Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CERIC-ERIC)    

 

12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 15:30 PARALLEL THEMES, BLOCK 2

Parallel Theme A: Societal and Economic Benefits and impact of Research Infrastructures

PT A/2: How Do We Know We Invest in the Right  Things? Discussion on Building Quality Assurance and Review into the Investment Selection Process

ROOM: GRAND PASSAGE BALLROOM

MODERATOR: Jan HRUŠÁK, Advisor / Special Envoy for Research Infrastructures / ESFRI

Alasdair REID, Policy  Director, The European Future Innovation System (EFIS) Centre, Belgium

Silvia VIGNETTI, Development and Evaluation Unit, Centre for Industrial Studies (CSIL), Italy

Susie ROBINSON,  Executive Director, Australian Plant Phenomics Facility

Massimo FLORIO, University of Milano, Italy

Daniel ADAMS, Chief Director: Basic Sciences and Infrastructure, Department of Science and Innovation, South Africa

Parallel Theme B: Multi-scale Ecosystem of Research Infrastructures

PT B/2: Challenges of Multinational Research Infrastructures – Maintaining Synergistic Relationships

ROOM: LARGE 2

MODERATOR: Alejandro BUSCHIAZZO, Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay

Silke SCHUMACHER, Hub Coordinator, Instruct-ERIC

Udunna ANAZODO, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Canada

Jane FITZPATRICK, Chief Executive Officer, Australian National Fabrication Facility

Leonel MALACRIDA, Head Advanced Bioimaging Unit, Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay

Parallel Theme C: Research Infrastructures and Sharing  Scientific Data Globally  

PT C/2: Data Sharing - Regional Initiatives

ROOM: LARGE 1

MODERATOR: Marialuisa LAVITRANO, Coordinator of RItrain Plus project, Italy

Rosie HICKS, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Research Data Commons

Ewa DEELMAN, Research Professor and Research Director, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA

Jianhui LI, Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Science, CSTCloud

Suzanne DUMOUCHEL, Partnerships Coordinator, OPERAS and Member of the Board of Directors of the EOSC Association, Belgium

Tania ALTAMIRANO, Academic Relations Manager at RedCLARA, Nicaragua

Parallel Theme D: Transnational Access to Research Infrastructures  

PT D/2: Enabling Global Collaboration and Access to Research Infrastructures in Times of Crisis

ROOM: LARGE 3

MODERATOR: Francisco COLOMER, ERIC Forum

Bruno COUTARD, European Virus Archive Global

Claudia FILIPPONE, European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents (ERINHA)

Clifford NXOMANI, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, National Research  Foundation of South Africa

Gregory BOEBINGER, Director, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, USA

Michael JAMES, Australian Synchrotron

Toshiyasu ICHIOKA, Director, RIKEN Europe Office

Nicolas PADE, Executive Director, European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC-ERIC)

 

15:30 – 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

16:00 – 18:00 PARALLEL THEMES, BLOCK 3

Parallel Theme A: Societal and Economic Benefits and Impact of Research Infrastructures

PT A/3: Advancing Knowledge. Transforming Lives. Inspiring Nations - the Transformative Effect of Research Infrastructures

ROOM: GRAND PASSAGE BALLROOM

MODERATOR: Johannes GUTLEBER, Future Circular Collider, Directorate Office for Accelerators and Technology, CERN

Johannes GUTLEBER,  Future Circular Collider, Directorate Office for Accelerators and Technology, CERN

Adrian TIPLADY,  Deputy Managing Director: Strategy & Partnerships, South African Radio Astronomy Observatory

Gihan KAMEL, Sesame Infrared Beamline Principal Scientist, Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and  Applications in the Middle East

Sun Kun OH, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Konkuk University and Senior Consultant for Center for Underground Physics, Institute of Basic Sciences, South Korea

Xavier BARCONS,  Director General of the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO)

Parallel Theme B: Multi-scale Ecosystem of Research Infrastructures

PT B/3: Toolbox Session – Examples of Good Practices for Research Infrastructures Ecosystem Focused on Smaller Scale Facilities

ROOM: LARGE 2

MODERATOR: Frédéric SGARD, Project Administratorat the Global Science Forum, OECD

Sally CHAMBERS, Digital Humanities Research Coordinator, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Ghent University, Belgium

Lavanya PREMVARDHAN, Core Facilities Working Group, EU-LIFE

Alberto ZIGONI, Portfolio Integration Director, Research Intelligence Solutions at Elsevier, Italy

Marialuisa LAVITRANO,  Coordinator of RItrainPlus project, Italy

Tanja NINKOVIC, Programme Manager of the ARISE Training Program, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany

Rosario DURÁN, Head of Technological Unit, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay

Lia PIETRASANTA, Associate Professor, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Joshua Z. RAPPOPORT,  Executive Director, Research Infrastructure & Operations, Boston College, USA

Parallel Theme C: Research Infrastructures and Sharing Scientific Data Globally  

PT C/3: Data Sharing - National Initiatives

ROOM: LARGE 1

MODERATOR: Luděk MATYSKA, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

York SURE-VETTER, Director of  National Research Data Infrastructure, Germany

Mark LEGGOTT, Director of International Relations, Digital Research Alliance of Canada, Canada

Yasuhiro MURAYAMA, Research Executive Director at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, Member of Science Council of Japan, Member of Expert Panel of Open Science Promotion at Cabinet Office of Japan

Jana KLÁNOVÁ, Director of  RECETOX at Masaryk University & Coordinator of EIRENE Research Infrastructure, Czech Republic

Parallel Theme D: Transnational Access to Research Infrastructures  

PT D/3: Research Infrastructures Access for Complex Science Questions – Promoting Global Collaboration and Science Diplomacy

ROOM: LARGE 3

MODERATOR: Andrew HARRISON, Chief Executive Officer, Diamond Light Source LTD, UK and from November 2022, Director of Science, Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium)

Apostolia KARAMALI, Head of Unit for Research and Innovation Actors and Research Careers, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, European Commission

Giorgio ROSSI, Physics Department of the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Francisco COLOMER, Director, JIVE-ERIC

Mirjam VAN DAALEN, Head of Communications, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland

Anita HEWARD, Communications Manager, Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure, School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent

Ed MITCHEL, Head of Business Development, Experiments Division, The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France

Hank LOESCHER, The National Ecological Observatory Network, USA

Claudia Alén AMARO, Senior Programme Manager at the Integrated  Structural Biology Infrastructure (Instruct-ERIC), UK

Werner KUTSCH, Director General, ICOS ERIC (Integrated Carbon Observation System)

 

19:00 – 22:00 ICRI 2022 SOCIAL EVENT

FRIDAY 21st October

Venue: Hotel Passage, Lidická 23, 602 00 Brno

8:00 – 11:30 Registration Open

9:00 – 9:40 PLENARY 3: Lessons Learned from Parallel Themes and Grand Societal Challenges Parallel Sessions

ROOM: GRAND PASSAGE BALLROOM

MODERATOR: Daniel STACH, Journalist, Presenter, Science Communicator, Czech Television

Rapporteurs from Parallel Themes and Grand Societal Challenges Parallel Sessions

 

9:40 – 11:00 PLENARY 4: Research Infrastructures Addressing Grand Societal Challenges (2ndpart)

ROOM: GRAND PASSAGE BALLROOM

MODERATOR: Anna PANAGOPOULOU, Director for ERA & Innovation, Directorate-General for Research & Innovation, European Commission

III. Data and Digitalisation of Society

Ivan BARTOŠ, Deputy Prime Minister for Digitisation and Minister of Regional Development, Government of the Czech Republic

Karel LUYBEN, President of the European Open Science Cloud Association

Émilie PAQUIN, Director of research and strategic development, Université de Montréal, Érudit Consortium / Coalition Publica, Canada

Piyawut SRICHAIKUL, ASEAN HPC Task Force Co-Chair, Director of National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) Supercomputer Center (ThaiSC), Thailand

Tommaso CALARCO, Director, Institute for Quantum Control at Forschungszentrum Jülich

 

11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 12:15 AWARDS AND MEMORANDUMS OF UNDERSTANDINGS CEREMONY / BRNO DECLARATION ON FOSTERING A GLOBAL ECOSYSTEM OF RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES

ROOM: GRAND PASSAGE BALLROOM

MODERATOR: Daniel STACH, Journalist, Presenter, Science Communicator, Czech Television

Brno Declaration on Fostering a Global Ecosystem of Research Infrastructures

Václav VELČOVSKÝ, Deputy Minister for the European Union, International Affairs and the EU Cohesion Policy Funds, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic

Joanna DRAKE, Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General for  Research and Innovation, European Commission

• ERIC Plates Ceremony

Joanna DRAKE, Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General for  Research and Innovation, European Commission

Francisco COLOMER, Chair, ERIC Forum

Marta ABRANTES, Foundation for Science and Technology FCT, Portugal on behalf of MIRRI (The Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure)

Diego MARTÍNEZ PLAZA, EU-SOLARIS coordinator

• Memorandum of Understanding signature between Instruct-ERIC and CNPEM

Harald SCHWALBE, Director, Instruct-ERIC, United Kingdom  

Rodrigo VILLARES PORTUGAL, Director, National Center for Research in Energy and Materials, Brasil

• Memorandum of Understanding signature between  Euro-BioImaging and Institut Pasteur de Montevideo

Antje KEPPLER, Biological Hub Director, Euro-BioImaging, Germany

Carlos BATTHYÁNY DIGHIERO, Executive Director, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay

 

12:15 – 13:00 PLENARY 5: Conference Closing

ROOM: GRAND PASSAGE BALLROOM

MODERATOR: Daniel STACH, Journalist, Presenter, Science Communicator, Czech Television

Jana KOLAR, Chair of European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures

Joanna DRAKE, Deputy  Director-General, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission

Ronald ROBERTS, Deputy Chief Officer for Research Facilities at the National Science Foundation, USA

Jiří NANTL, Deputy Governor of the South Moravian Region and Director of CEITEC MU, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Václav VELČOVSKÝ, Deputy Minister for the European Union, International Affairs and the EU Cohesion Policy Funds, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic

Hand over to ICRI 2024 organisers...

Sarah BROWN, Counsellor for Industry, Science and Resources, Australian Embassy to Belgium, Luxembourg and Mission to the European Union and NATO

 

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

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general schedule

Mon
17. OCT
Tue
18. OCT
Wed
19. OCT
THU
20. OCT
FRI
21. OCT
Morning
SATELLITE EVENTS
ESFRI
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
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SATELLITE EVENTS
ESFRI FORUM MEETING
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9:00 - 12:00
SIDE EVENTS
7:30 - 8:45 EARLY MORNING SESSION

9:00 - 10:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
9:00 - 9:40 PLENARY 3

9:40 - 11:00
PLENARY 4

11:30 - 12:15 AWARDS AND MEMORANDUMS CEREMONY
Afternoon
SATELLITE EVENTS
ESFRI
FORUM MEETING
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SATELLITE EVENTS
13:30 - 15:30 PLENARY 1

16:00 - 18:00
PLENARY 2
11:00 - 18:00 PARALLEL THEMES
12:15 - 13:00 PLENARY 5

14:00 - 17:00 SIDE EVENTS
evening
SATELLITE EVENTS
ESFRI
FORUM MEETING
19:00 - 22:00 SIDE EVENTS
19:00 - 22:00
SOCIAL EVENT
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Satellite and Side events aim to invite a larger number of stakeholders to join discussions on topics relevant to research infrastructures, give them space to open topics important to them, and share their visions, plans, and contributions to society. Please go to the Site / Satellite events section of the Programme to check the Site and Satellite events list and learn more about individual events.

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