
Programme of the Symposium
November 18th, 2016
Espace Baudouin
Palais des Académies
Rue Ducale 1
B – 1000 Bruxelles
08.00 - 09.00 : Registration
09:00-09:45 am: Opening speeches (Prof. Charles Joachain, President of the Royal Academy of Belgium, the Representative of Minister Jean-Claude Marcourt, Prof. Claude Debru, President of EURASC)
Introductory Lecture: Prof. Catherine Bréchignac
Part 1. Trust / Distrust / Public Reception / Communication
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Chairman of the session: Professor Charles Joachain, President of the Royal Academy of Belgium, Head of the Physics Division of EURASC.
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09.45 – 10.15 am : Prof. Martin Carrier (Bielefeld, Germany)
Lecture: « Contentious Research : How to Respond to the Credibility Crisis of Science »
10.15 – 10.45 am : Prof. Natividad Carpintero Santamaria (Madrid)
Lecture: « Science and social communication »
10.45 – 11.15 am : Coffee Break
11.15 – 11.45 am : Prof. Claude Debru (Paris)
Lecture : « A more inclusive science education : ‘La main à la pâte’ and beyond »
11.45 – 12.15 am : Prof. Domenico Rossetti di Valdalbero (CE, Brussels)
Lecture: « Europe in a changing world : inclusive, innovative and reflective societies »
12.20 – 02.00 pm : Lunch
Part II. Sciences and Technologies of the Living: Promises, Resistances, Refusals, Violence
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Chairman of the session: Professor Antonio Camacho, Head of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division of EURASC.
02.00 – 02.30 pm: Prof. Jean-François Bach (Paris)
Lecture: « Refusals and Resistances in Medicine : the vaccinations »
02.30 – 03.00 pm : Prof. Alain Fischer (Paris)
Lecture : « New perspectives in genetic therapies »
03.00 – 03.30 pm : Prof. John R Porter (Copenhagen, Greenwich)
Lecture: « Resistances to agricultural biotechnologies, agronomy and environment»
03.30 – 04.00 pm: Coffee Break
Part III. Information Sciences and Technologies / Robotics / Nanotechnologies
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Chairmen of the session: Professor Hélène de Rode, Perpetual Secretary of EURASC and Professor Pierre Braunstein, Head of the Chemistry Division of EURASC.
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04.00 – 04.30 pm : Prof. Jean-Jacques Quisquater (Louvain-La-Neuve)
Lecture: « In the heart of trust : cryptography »
04.30 – 05.00 pm : Prof. Pierre Braunstein (Strasbourg, France)
Lecture: « An environment that nurtured pioneering science and industry : a case study »
05.00 – 05.30 pm : Prof. François Guinot (Paris)
Lecture: « Technological innovation as a factor of penetration of science in society »
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Evening Lecture
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Chairman of the session: Mr. Christian Jourquin, member of the Royal Academy of Belgium
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05.40 – 06.20 pm : Philippe Busquin, ancien Commissaire européen
Lecture: « Making Europe a « Standard » for Science »
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The Symposium continues on November 19, 2016