14:00 - 14:15
Welcome Address
MdP Alexander Zach, Member of the Parliamentary Commission for Research, Innovation and Technology
14:15 - 16:00
Science and Knowledge
Chair: W. Gerhard Pohl, Euroscience Austria
What is Socially Relevant Science?
Nico Stehr, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen:
What do Scientific Communities Need to Prosper? Some Reflections on 10 Years at the FWF (Austrian Science Fund)
Arnold Schmidt, Vienna University of Technology
The ERC: Has a European Dream Come True? Preliminary Experience and Lessons
Helga Nowotny, Vienna
Discussion
16:00 - 18:00
What Euroscience Does for All Kinds of Science
Jean-Patrick Connerade, Imperial College London, Former President of EUROSCIENCE
Panel discussion
Moderator: Ronald J Pohoryles, ICCR
Panelists: Raoul Kneucker, Helga Nowotny, Arnold Schmidt, Nico Stehr