19 September 2022
The Palace of the Academies, Brussels, Belgium
In the last decade there is a growing momentum towards making all steps of the scientific activities more open and transparent, and in this way speeding up the cooperation, progress, adaptation and implementation of the findings. This is also important in order to increase the trust in scientific findings for a crisis like a pandemic or for major societal issues like climate change. But open science concerns mainly the research process, generally supported by public funding, making new knowledge a part of the common good of humanity.
The innovation process is quite different although complementary. Open science could make more critical the so-called ”European paradox”: Europe is still at the top for basic research but is often unable to translate scientific advances into marketable innovations! Without local ecosystems, including private companies, research and technology organizations, strategic local public support etc., the results of research, which is more and more open and accessible to anybody, will not be rewarded to the countries funding the development of knowledge.
The concept of “Responsible innovation” needs to be addressed as well. Is it nowadays possible to develop an innovation which is not supporting or contributing to the societal transition to a sustainable world ? Is it possible to extend the concept of open-source in software, into open free innovation for technological solutions aiming to realize the many unavoidable transitions?
How are these concerns taken into account in the different European countries? It’s clearly a challenge for Euro-CASE members.
The goal of this conference is to learn good practices from all Euro-CASE partners and innovators, to debate the opportunities and challenges created by open science, RRI (responsible research and innovation) and responsible innovation and to translate these basic trends, allowing to disseminate technical solutions for easing the needed transitions in accordance with the needs of very different countries.
09:15 – 10:05
09:15 – 10:05
Keynote: Providing the EU Context
Conference Goals
Concepts and Questions
10:05 – 10:35
Display of banners and posters
10:35 – 12:15
This session sets the scene for the two next sessions. The digital transition has a strong impact on the mechanisms of science and the transfer to industry and society. There are interesting opportunities for better quality, spread and progress of research when there is more openness in the publications, the data, and the entire research process. We present the roles and actions of the universities, and applied research centres and debate about the impact on publishers, early career professionals, and employers.
10:35 Session 1: Presentations
Introduction
The new scene of open science and scientific cooperation in Europe and the role of EOSC and the countries
EARTO’s views on the role, best practices, strengths, and weaknesses of Research Technology Centres in the EU
Transferring science to industry: experience of a public-private association for promoting research and innovation
Conclusions
11:30 Session 1: Panel Debate
Introduction
Comments on the role of organizations such as the IEEE in favour of Open Science and Innovation
Comments on the stumbling blocks and challenges for Industrial Research and Innovation within the EU
Comments on the situation of Poland as a « recent new EU member state » with regard to innovation, and its recent efforts to foster innovation and strengthen industry-university collaborations.
Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion Conclusions
12:10 Session 1: Conclusions
Prof. emeritus Joos Vandewalle
12:15 – 13:45
Display of banners and posters
13:45 – 15:25
How to build more efficient bridges between knowledge value and market value to securing the European Technological and Industrial Base?
The session will address some key questions:
13:45 Session 2: Presentations
Introduction
European initiatives to sharing its intellectual capital to generate prosperity for Europe
European initiatives for sharing the benefits of its large investments in breakthrough science and technology to keeping the EU tech economy at the forefront
Strategic autonomy for Europe: enabling innovation and prosperity through high tech industry. How open can science be to be actionable by industry?
Conclusions
14:40 – 15:25
14:40 Session 2: Panel Debate
Introduction
Comments on Technology Transfer
Comments on Responsible Innovation through Public-Private Partnerships
Comments on Creating big players: challenges and opportunities (Chip Design as a case study)
Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion Conclusions
15:20 Session 2: Conclusions
15:25 – 15:55
Display of banners and posters
15:55 – 17:35
Session 3: Technological Innovation for the Common Good of Humanity
Europe has an important historical and moral responsibility towards developing countries. Engineers and technology have a fundamental role to play in enabling this development, in a respectful, balanced and ethically sound relationship.
In the field of IT (software and hardware) open source offers many opportunities and shows a way, which has to be extended to many other technical fields. In addition, low-tech approaches should be preferred.
More generally, in the face of global existential challenges (pandemics, climate, biodiversity) new models of international cooperation must be implemented.
15:55 Presentations
Introduction
A sustainable approach inspired by IT: open-source technologies
The role of open source (software and hardware) in IT as a model of fast and sustainable deployment of technologies, boosted by the shared resources and innovation capacity of fab labs and makerspaces.
Least developed countries: which kind of technologies to adopt?
Facing the challenge of the lack of water for humanity, new approaches are indicated. The role of “low” technologies.
Scientific convergence and partnerships for health innovation at worldwide level
Based on public-private partnerships, new models of sharing science and technology for fighting worldwide existential challenges should be implemented. Can EU be a model? The COVID 19 pandemic as an example.
Conclusions
16:50 Panel Debate
Introduction
Comments about closing the technology gap in least developed countries. The importance of “low tech” and the role of engineers.
Comments pertaining to holistic approaches to solve technical problems in a sustainable way. The societal responsibility of engineers and the role of Engineering Schools.
Comments about healthcare innovation, from a sociologist’s perspective
Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion Conclusions
17:30 Session Conclusions
17:35 – 18:00
18:00 – 19:00
Clarisse Angelier
Secretary general of ANRT
Muriel Attané
Secretary general of EARTO
Luc Bonte
CEO “Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs”
Luc Chefneux
Past Director of the “Classe Technologie et Société”, ARB
Rudi Cuyvers
Léopold Demiddeleer
ARB, Honorary President of EIRMA
Anna Fabijanska
Polish Academy of Science
Isabelle Ferreras
University of Louvain, President of the “Academie royale de Belgique”
Erol Gelenbe
National Academy of Technologies of France
Michel Goldman
ULB, Academy of Medicine
Ine Van Hoyweghen
KUL
Michel Judkiewicz
“Classe Technologie et Société” of the ARB, past Secretary General of EIRMA
Karel Luyben
President EOSC, Board member CESAER, former Rector TU Delft
Elisabeth Monard
President of the KVAB
Ric Parker
Former CTO, Rolls-Royce
Saifur Rahman
Life Fellow IEEE and President of IEEE
Jean-Pierre Raskin
UCL
Marnik Vanclooster
Joos Vandewalle
Honorary President KVAB, Open Science ambassador KU Leuven
Didier Viviers
Permanent Secretary of the ARB