HUB event, 2022, Event

22nd June

This High-Level Conference will be dedicated to the role of science-based innovation in the promotion of the digital and green agendas, taking place on the 22nd of June. In order to do so, we will address the key issues and elements in the European, national and regional research, and innovation ecosystems, all needed to ensure an alignment between EU funding goals and R&I institutions, regions and national governments.

In particular we will address:

1) The key role of the wide diversity of research and technology infrastructures in supporting fully functional, competitive, state-of-the-art and disruptive R&I ecosystems, drawing on the experience of a set of ESFRI RIs and TIs across Europe and contributing for the discussion to continue seamlessly in the Czech Presidency of the EU;

2) The funding of the full R&I cycle and its impact on cohesion and competitiveness: it is well known by now that an ecosystem, at any level (supra or sub-national) needs a complete set of entities developing fundamental research, supporting the transition between this research and the market and those who actually uptake the knowledge from lower TRLs and transform it into marketable solutions. This, in turn, requires a fully complementary set of funding instruments that support both basic, intermediate and pre-market research and innovation.

This event will be a hybrid event taking place via Zoom and at Sala Damião de Góis, Portuguese Permanent Representation to the European Union, Avenue de Cortenbergh 12, 1040 Bruxelles

Full agenda

9h00 Opening

09h45 Science-based innovation

  • Moderator: Inês Lynce, President, INESC ID
  • Doris Schroeker, Head of Unit, Industrial Research, Innovation & Investment Agendas, DG RTD
  • Otto Bruun, Secretary General, UAS4Europe
  • João Claro, Chief Executive Officer, INESC TEC

11h00 Coffee-break

11h30 Research and Innovation Support Infrastructures: An Ecosystem Approach

13h00 Lunch

14h30 Skills and capacity building for technology development and innovation

  • Moderator: Carlos Henggeler, President, INESC Coimbra
  • Armando Pires, President, EURASHE
  • Daniel Wennick, Head of Brussels Office for Swedish Engineering Industries
  • Rafael Popper, Director, Centre for Foresight and Internationalisation, Łukasiewicz Research Network

15h45 Coffee-break 

16h00 Funding science-based innovation: Bridging knowledge production and market uptake

17h30 Closing session

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