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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

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