Pre- Programme

WEDNESDAY, 19th May 

13:30 - 16:00 Long-term Sustainable Cooperation among RTOs:
The AERTOs ERA-NET Project

• Overview of AERTOs Project: Objectives, Participants, Perspectives - Jens Neugebauer,
  Fraunhofer, AERTOs Project Coordinator
• Presentations of first AERTOs projects and activities
• AERTOs pilot programme: Raoul Klingner, Fraunhofer
• Researcher perspective - AERTOs project "Towards Energy-efficient City Systems": Dietrich Schmidt, Fraunhofer-IBP
• International Project Manager Training Programme: Leena Sarvaranta, VTT
• Conclusions
   

16:00 - 16:30: Coffee Break
 

17:00 - 18:30: EARTO Working Group

• Update on Current EU Issues relating to R&D and Innovation
• Presentation of new EARTO members
• Presentation of FFA - Forskningsinstituttenes fellesarena – Gunnar Jordfald

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

THURSDAY, 20th May

10:30 - 13:00 Opening Plenary Session 

• Welcome from EARTO - Erkki Leppävuori, President
• Welcome from RISE Holding AB - Peter Holmstedt, CEO
• Addressing the Grand Challenges: The Essential Contribution of Research and
  Technology Organisations - Christopher John Hull, EARTO
• EARTO Innovation Prize - Christopher John Hull, EARTO

11:15 - 11:45: Coffee Break

• Waldemar Kütt, Expert, Cabinet of Commissioner Máire GEOGHEGAN-Quinn,
  Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, European Commission
• Creating a Smarter Planet, One Collaboration at a Time - Matthias Kaiserswerth, IBM Research GmbH, Zurich
• How the Heavy Duty Industry tackles the Environment Challenges - Hasse Johansson,
  Formerly R&D-Director of SCANIA

 
13:00 - 14:30: Lunch

14:30 - 17:30 Parallel Sessions 

Parallel Session 1: Building Sustainable RTOs

Chair: Per-Erik Petersson, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden
Rapporteur: Jos Leijten, Joint Institute for Innovation Policy

• Managing Intellectual Property in an Open Innovation Environment - Varpu Lindroos/Jutta Suksi, VTT
• RTO Business and Funding Models: Examples from Around the World - Jos Leijten, Joint Institute for Innovation Policy
• Maintaining and Developing Staff Competence in RTOs - Riitta Tolvanen, VTT
• Mandatory sustainability reporting in Swedish state-owned companies: Perspectives and consequences - Magnus Frostenson, PhD and Assistant Professor, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University
• A Public-Private Partnership Model for a Sustainable RTO - Øyvind Fylling-Jensen, Nofima
  

Parallel Session 2: RTOs and the Grand Challenges

Chair: Wolfgang Polt, Joanneum
Rapporteur: Laurens Hoedemaker, TNO

• Governance of Transnational Research Initiatives - Wolfgang Polt, Joanneum Research
• Climate KIC - Michiel Blind, Deltares
• InnoEnergy KIC for Sustainable Energy - Juliette Cahen, CEA
• Fraunhofer’s Approach to Sustainability and Grand Challenges - Lothar Behlau, Fraunhofer
• Energy-efficient Buildings PPP: Achievements and Outlook - Stefano Carosio, D’Appolonia/ Energy Efficient Buildings Association

Parallel Session 3: Sustainability Issues and Case Studies

Chair: Chair: Iñaki San Sebastian, TECNALIA
Rapporteur: Claes Tullin, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden

• Opportunities for the Production of Fuels in the Pulp and Paper Industry - Peter Axegård, Innventia
• Future Global Supply Chain Logistics: Coming Back Closer to Home as a Consequence of Rising Energy Costs? - Tobias Brosze, FIR
• Food Industry Life Cycle - Ulf Sonesson, SIK - the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology
• Delivering Innovative Solutions for Sustainability – Christopher Pickering, QinetiQ
• Ecodesign to create Competitiveness in a Sustainable Society - Anna-Karin Jönbrink, Swerea IVF

 
17:45 - 19:00: EARTO Executive Board Meeting

20:00: Conference Dinner

FRIDAY, 21st May

9:15 - 10:00: EARTO Annual General Meeting

10:15 - 13:30: Plenary Session

• Reports from Parallel Sessions
• AERTOs ERA-NET Project - Jens Neugebauer, Fraunhofer, AERTOs Project Coordinator
• The Economic and Social Impact of RTOs: the EARTO Impact Study – Erik Arnold, Chairman Technopolis Group

11:00 - 11:30: Coffee Break

• Representative of Swedish Ministry for Enterprise and Energy – Jöran Hägglund,
  State Secretary
• RTOs and the Swedish Innovation System - Peter Holmstedt, RISE Holding AB and
  Sverker Sörlin, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
• Impact Evaluation of RTOs - Mats Bergh, RISE
• Putting RTOs at the Heart of EU Research and Innovation Policy: the Reinforced EARTO Communication Strategy – John Hill, CEO Pera, EARTO Board member and Chair of the EARTO Communications Task Force

 
Closing Session

• Erkki Leppävuori, President EARTO
• Conference 2011

 
13:30: Buffet Lunch