RESEARCH AND SOCIAL INNOVATION: THE POTENTIAL FOR EUROPEAN FOUNDATIONS TO PAVE THE WAY
9-10 February 2012, Hosted by Fundació „la Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain
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Designed around the theme of Research and Social Innovation the next edition of the EFC Research Forum's Stakeholders' Conference will feature plenary sessions and parallel discussions exploring:
- The potential for foundations to spearhead socially innovative research;
- The impact of social media and networks on research and social innovation;
- Open Access and the challenge of quality assurance; and
- Public participation in science: new modes of interaction
Confirmed speakers to date include Maria Leptin (EMBO), Philip Campbell (Nature), Wilhelm Krull (VolkswagenStiftung), Ortwin Renn (University of Stuttgart), Anders Hede (TrygFonden), Robert Kiley (Wellcome Trust), Michael John Gorman (Science Gallery, Dublin) and many more. For further details, download the programme here
For further information please email researchforum@efc.be. To register, please click here.
The conference will take place at the CosmoCaixa Science Museum, Barcelona, Spain
Who should attend? Leaders from foundations and public research organisations, representatives from EU and international institutions, researchers and science journalists and bloggers