Summer Meeting 2023 – Knowledge valorisation: the role of research and technology infrastructures

This event took place in the Portuguese Permanent Representation, Avenue de Cortenbergh 12, 1040 Brussels.

Watch the full conference here.

Click on each speaker’s name to download the presentation. 

9h30 Opening

• Manuela Teixeira Pinto,  Deputy Permanent Representative of Portugal to the European Union
• Inês Lynce, INESC Brussels HUB Management Committee Chair and President at INESC ID
• Bertrand Bouchet, RITIFI project & Head of CEA Representation in Brussels
  
• Arlindo Oliveira, INESC Holding President
• Raquel Sequeira, Trade and Investment Officer at aicep Portugal Global

Moderation: Ricardo Migueis, Head of Office at INESC Brussels HUB

10h15-12h30 Establishing the tools for knowledge valorisation

10h15 Part A: The policy context (speakers + 30 min round table)

Fostering knowledge valorisation and strategic autonomy

• Dominik Sobczak, Deputy Head of Unit at European Commission, DG Research & Innovation
• René Martins, Research Infrastructures and Open Science, DG Research & Innovation

European Technology Infrastructures and their role in knowledge valorisation

• David Holden, European Coordinator Technology Division at CEA

The European Research infrastructures and their role in knowledge valorisation

• Maja Bucar, Professor at the University of Ljubljana and member of the ESFRI drafting group on RI industry cooperation

Moderation: Simon Pickard, Network Director at Science Business

11h15 Coffee-Break

11h30 Part B: The role of RIs and TIs in supporting industry

European Technology Infrastructures in the EU R&I landscape

• Sophie Viscido, Principal Consultant at Technopolis Group

Research Infrastructures’ role in the innovation ecosystem

• Kristiaan Temst, KU Leuven and imec, Chair at ESFRI Physical Sciences and Engineering Strategy Working Group

Roadmap for aviation research infrastructures in Europe – the RINGO Project

• Francesco Ferrigno, Business Development & Strategic Planning at CIRA – the Italian Aerospace Research Centre

Moderation:  Susana Cardoso Freitas, Director at INESC Microsystems and Nanotechnologies

12h30 Lunch Break

14h Inspirational cases for knowledge valorisation

Test infrastructures supporting the transition to the hydrogen society

• Nikolaj Zangenberg, Innovation Manager at Danish Technological Institute

Co-designing with industry for new high impact services in micro-electronics, pharma, batteries

• Edward Mitchell, Head of Business Development at ESRF

EATRIS Public private Innovation Hub

• Anton Ussi, Operations & Finance Director at EATRIS

The Advanced Materials initiative 2030

• Philippe Jacques, Managing Director at EMIRI – the Energy Materials Industrial Research Initiative

The example of accelerator-based RIs and TIs

• Angeles Faus-Golfe, chair of the Industry Advisory Board in the I.FAST project

Moderation:  Maurits Butter, Senior Orchestrating expert at TNO

15h30 Coffee break

15h45 Unlocking value creation for strategic autonomy: discussion groups

5 thematic discussion groups focused on exploring the role of infrastructures in supporting value creation, from a research starting point, in a close relation with EU policy priorities.

Parallel discussion Groups

• Microelectronics. Rapporteur: Jorge Fernandes, INESC ID
• Materials & Manufacturing. Rapporteur: José Carlos Caldeira, INESC TEC
• Biotechnology. Rapporteur: Nicolas Villacorta, Helmholtz
• Energy. Rapporteur: Luís Seca, INESC TEC

A set of key questions will be shared with the groups to guide discussion and provide comparative reporting material, resulting from the discussions in different thematic groups. All groups will receive the same set of questions.

Thematic discussion groups are open to registration and have a rapporteur each.

Key questions:

• What are the most important challenges facing Europe within this theme?
• What are the main barriers preventing the challenges in being solved?
• How can RIs and TIs help lower the barriers and solve the challenges?
• How would you most efficiently spend 10 M-EUR to support innovation in this field?

All questions should be answered having in mind the general RI and TI challenges and the specific challenges to the thematic group where you are participating.

17h15 Conclusions and the way forward – round table

Rapporteurs of the different thematic discussion groups present the outcomes of the discussion.

Moderation: Maurits Butter, Senior Orchestrating expert at TNO

18h Close of meeting