"Synergies between European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) & Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Funding: The Stairway to Excellence (S2E)"

  • 08 Mar 2017 to 08 Mar 2017
  • Crowne Plaza Brussels - Le Palace; Rue Gineste 3; Brussels (BE)

This event provides an opportunity to present the achievement of the project, lessons learnt and discuss challenges ahead with regional and national managing authorities who are involved in the managing R&I funds in order to exchange ideas and good practices.

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Agenda and Presentations

09:00 - 09:30   REGISTRATION

09:30 - 10:15   OPENING SESSION AND WELCOME SPEECHES

Moderator: Charlina Vitcheva, Deputy Director-General, DG JRC, European Commission

10:15 - 10:45   COFFEE BREAK

10:45 - 12:30   SYNERGIES BETWEEN RESEARCH & INNOVATION FUNDS – LESSONS LEARNT

Moderator: Peter Berkowitz, Head of Unit, DG REGIO, European Commission & Magda de Carli, Head of Unit, DG Research, Innovation and Science, European Commission

12:30 - 13:30   NETWORKING LUNCH

13:30 - 14:30   I PANEL DISCUSSION - "GOVERNANCE AND IMPLEMENTATION TO ACHIEVE GREATER FUNDING EFFICIENCY"

Moderator:  Markus Dettenhofer, Executive Director of the CEITEC

14:30 - 15:00  COFFEE BREAK

15:00 - 16:00    II PANEL DISCUSSION – "EXPERIENCE FROM OTHER INITIATIVES – WHAT TO LEARN, WHAT TO TRANSFER"

Moderator:  Christian Saublens, former EURADA CEO

16:00 - 16:30    CONCLUSIONS AND WAY FORWARD

Moderator:  Charlina Vitcheva, Deputy Director-General, DG JRC, European Commission

  • Lambert Van Nistelrooij, Member of the European Parliament
  • Wolfgang Burtscher, Deputy Director-General for DG Research, Innovation and Science
  • Rudolf Niessler, Director, DG REGIO, European Commission

 

Practical Information

When
08 Mar 2017 to 08 Mar 2017
Where
Crowne Plaza Brussels - Le Palace; Rue Gineste 3; Brussels (BE)
Registration Information
Registration is closed

Description

 

The "Stairway to Excellence" (S2E) initiative is a pilot project funded by the European Parliament (EP) and focused on supporting European Regions and Member States in enhancing synergies in the use of different EU funding sources for research, development and innovation (European Structural and Investment Funds and Horizon 2020, also taking account COSME, ERASMUS+, Creative Europe and so on).

The Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) are now a reality in Europe. With EU regions and nations having completed the technical fulfilments of the ex-ante conditionality and related action plans, the activities are now moving to the implementation phase. More information is available at: http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu.

Within the broader context of the S3 activities, the 2017 Conference on the synergies between Horizon 2020 (COSME, ERASMUS + etc.) and ESIF will be organized in collaboration with the European Parliament (EP), and DG REGIO to raise awareness of major stakeholders on (1) the progress in exploiting the synergies between Horizon 2020 (and other funding programmes) and ESIF and (2) discuss practical bottlenecks emerging when R&D&I actors will start implementing the available tools for synergies between funds.

Approach:

This event provides an opportunity to present the achievement of the project, lessons learnt and discuss challenges ahead with regional and national managing authorities who are involved in the managing R&I funds in order to exchange ideas and good practices.  It is organized under the auspice of the EP in Crowne Plaza Brussels - Le Palace; Rue Gineste 3; Brussels.

The principal objectives of this high level event are:

  • To present the achievement of the project, including lessons learnt from the S2E National Events organized since 2015.
  • A better understanding of the national (and regional) innovation ecosystem with a special emphasis on the identification of obstacles, barriers and potentials to innovation.
  • Raising awareness of the actions needed to enable synergies between different EU funding programmes for research and innovation.
  • Sharing experiences in combining Structural Funds and Framework Programme to improve excellence in R&I systems.
  • Drawing lessons for the future and identifying follow-up actions to enhance the potential synergies between different EU funds in the MS.

Please note the European Commission will cover travel expenses only for speakers/moderators at this conference.

 

 

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