‘Nurturing Talent’ was the theme of the 2010 Annual Conference of the EFC Research Forum and over 80 representatives the Foundation sector, higher education and public research agencies gathered in Stuttgart in December to discuss how foundations and their stakeholders in the research community could work together to build human capacity in research. In the elevated setting provided by the Robert Bosch Stiftung Conference Centre, the presentations and discussion shed new light on how Foundations and others are working to foster creativity and innovation, encourage mobility and international networking and to develop the research leaders of tomorrow.
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Conference Programme
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Presentations 7 December 2010
Panel Session 1: Internationalisation of Research
Mike Rogers, European Commission
Marie Curie Programme
David Strangway, Quest University
Africa Research Chairs; A New Approach to Development
Gunnar Tornqvist, Lund University
The Geography of Creativity
Panel Session 2: Creativity and Leadership
Joan Dassin, International Fellowships Program Ford Foundation
Higher education as a path to development and social justice: the case of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program
Detlef Hanne, VolkswagenStiftung
Which way to go? A comparison of different models for sustainable capacity development
Kole Shettima, MacArthur Foundation
From institution building to next generation of scholars and centers of excellence: a decade of partnership investment in Africa
Panel Session B: Research Leaders of Tomorrow
Maja Horst, Copenhagen Business School
Scientific social responsibility: leading science in society
Beate Konze-Thomas, Deutsche Forschung Gemeinschaft
Making research careers attractive: a point of view of a public funding organisation
Michal Pietras, Foundation for Polish Science
Research leaders of tomorrow
Panel Session C: Research Leaders of Tomorrow
João Caraça, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Don’t eat the daisies
Stephan Gutzeit, Stiftung Charité
From creativity to innovation: entrepreneurship and venture philanthropy as the missing links
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