Class C-Life Sciences conference + welcome to new members elected in 2021 and 2022. 

Closed Board meeting at the Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC)
Advisory Group meeting to be included

Board dinner to follow at local restaurant l’Antic Forn (Pintor Fortuny, 28. 08001 Barcelona)

Check-in for Class meeting participants at registration desk at PRBB

Class meetings held in parallel (A1, A2 and B)

Coffee break

Continuation of Class meetings

Check-in for conference participants not attending Class meetings, at registration desk at PRBB

Sandwiches and finger food on PRBB terrace

Opening of plenary conference “Building Bridges” 2022 at the PRBB

Marja Makarow, President of Academia Europaea
Ricard Guerrero, Director of the Barcelona Knowledge Hub
Moniek Tromp, Chair of the Young Academy of Europe

Debate sessions on hot topics in science policy
Rapporteur: Nisha Gaind, Bureau Chief – Europe, Nature

13.45 – 14.35: Session 1 (40 min for panel + 10 min for questions).

Science policy for the future

• Robert-Jan Smits (Chair), Eindhoven University of Technology
  The European perspective
• Andreu Mas-Colell, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
  Interplay between regional and European policies
• Moniek Tromp, Young Academy of Europe and University of Groningen
  Next-generation science policy

14.35 – 15.30: Session 2 (45 min for panel + 10 min for questions).

Towards an inclusive and representative academic landscape

• Linn Leppert (Chair), Young Academy of Europe and University of Twente
• Steven Curry, Imperial College London
  Policy changes for improving inclusion and diversity in academia
• Yvonne Galligan, Dublin Institute of Technology
  Shaping gender equality in academia
• Katalin Solymosi, Young Academy of Europe and ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
  Diversity and inclusion in EU13 countries

15.30 – 16.15: Session 3 (35 min for panel + 10 min for questions).

Asking more from research

• Marja Makarow (Chair), Academia Europaea and University of Helsinki
• Shankar Balasubramanian, University of Cambridge
  Fast track DNA sequencing for vaccine development and cancer therapy
• Helga Nowotny, Vienna Science and Technology Fund
  Social innovations – the case of Social Security

Coffee break

Welcome Ceremony. New members elected in 2021 Class A1, A2 and B only.
Coordinator: Genoveva Martí
Master of ceremonies: Donald Dingwell

Glass of cava

President’s Dinner (Hotel Casa Fuster, Passeig de Gràcia, 132. 08008 Barcelona)

Annual Business Meeting for AE Members 

Debate sessions on hot topics in science continued

Session 4: Environment and sustainability

• Poul Holm (Chair), Verena Winiwarter, Peter Wagner other speakers (TBA, to be announced)

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:50: Session 5. Frontiers of science: what’s around the corner?

• 13.00-13.05: Carl-Henrik Heldin (Chair), Nobel Foundation
• 13.05-13.15: Laudatio and presentation of the Erasmus Medal to Philippe Aghion by Andreu Mas-Colell
• 13.15-13.45: Philippe Aghion, College de France, INSEAD, and London School of Economics. Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal 2021. The promise of the creative destruction paradigm
• 13.45-14.15: Kirsten Drotner, University of Southern Denmark 
• 14.15-14.45: Jean-Marie Tarascon, College de France

14:45 – 15:15  |  Coffee break

15:15 – 16:35:

• 15.15-15.25: Laudatio and presentation of the 2022 André Mischke YAE Prize for Science and Policy by Gemma Modinos, Outgoing Chair of the Young Academy of Europe
• 15.25-15.55: Gergely Toldi, University of Auckland, New Zealand, Hungarian Young Academy and Academia Europaea Budapest Knowledge Hub
  Young Academy of Europe Prize Lecture 2022
• 15.55-16.05: Laudatio and presentation of the Academia Europaea Gold Award to Sierd Cloetingh by Robert-Jan Smits
• 16.05-16.35: Sierd Cloetingh, Utrecht University Academia Europaea Gold Award Lecture 2022

Coffee break

3rd edition (Human and Social Sciences) of the Barcelona Hypatia European Science Prize  Ceremony Session

• 17.00-17.30: Opening remarks by Major of Barcelona, City Council, Ricard Guerrero, Marja Makarow
  Laudatio by Genoveva Martí
• 17.30-18.00: Nancy Cartwright, Durham University

Concluding remarks and announcement of Building Bridges 2023 

Closing toast