Session on scientific co-operation

Session on Scientific Co-operation

• Moderators: Dr. Kari Kveseth, Executive Director of International Affairs, The Research Council of Norway, Mr. Jacek Mazur, Director of the Research Department, Ministry of Scientific Research and Information Technology

1330 – 1350: Opening, Polish and Norwegian Deputy Ministers

• Mr. Bjørn Haugstad, State Secretary, Ministry of Education and Research, Norway
• Polish Deputy Minister Krzysztof Frąckowiak, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Scientific Research and Information Technology

1400-1410: Expectations and potential for cooperation

• Professor Dr. Andrzej Legocki, President, Polish Academy of Sciences

1410 – 1420 Exploring Polish-Norwegian linkages after the EU/EEA agreement

• Professor Dr. Eivind Hiis-Hauge, The Norwegian Council for higher education

1420-1650 Building on existing partnership: Using excellence in building partnership.

• Introduction from leaders of Norwegian Centres of excellence and Polish European Research Centres of excellence

For Norway:

• Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Professor Eystein Jansen,
• Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience, Professor Erling Seeberg,
• Centre of Physics of Geological Processses, Professor Jens Feder,

For Poland:

• Prof. Witold Zatoński, Institute of Oncology, Warsaw
• Prof. Zygmunt Ziobrowski, Institute of Urban Development, Kraków"

1550 - 1615: Ongoing research cooperation, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in collaboration with Warszawa University of Technology. “SURBILD” project.

• Professor Barbara Matusiak, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Questions and comments

16.15-16.50 Strategic priorities in extended cooperation

Strategic priorities in Norwegian research policy and large scale national programmes,

• Dr. Kari Kveseth, Executive Director of International Affairs, The Research Council of Norway

Strategic priorities in Polish research policy

• Dr. Dariusz Drewniak, Director of the Science Policy Department, Ministry of Scientific Research and Information Technology

Questions and comments