Programme

8.30 - 9.00 Welcome coffee/tea

9.00 - 9.35 Opening and welcome

· Eva Kaili, MEP & STOA Chair

· Jean Eric Paquet, Director General for Research and Innovation (tbc)

· Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, ERC President

· Professor Alina Badescu, ERC grantee, Polytechnic University of Bucharest

9.35 - 10.20 Panel session on smart agriculture/food

· Moderator: Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, ERC President

· MEPs: Martin Häusling (Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance) and Jan Huitema (Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe)

· ERC grantees: Prof. Boaz Pokroy, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel and Dr. Ana Isabel Caño Delgado, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Spain

10.20 - 11.05 Panel session on migration/demography

· Moderator: Angela Liberatore, Head of Unit for Social Sciences and Humanities, ERC-Executive Agency

· MEP: Eva Kaili, STOA Chair

· ERC grantees: Prof. Steven Vertovec, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany and Dr. Vanessa Grotti, European University Institute, Italy

11.05 - 11.50 Panel session on CRISPR

· Moderator: Margaret Buckingham, ERC Scientific Council Member

· MEPs: Paul Rübig, MEP & STOA 1st Vice-Chair

· ERC grantees: Prof. Holger Puchta, Karlsruher Institute for Technology, Germany and Dr. Laura Cancedda, Fondaziones Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy

12:00 Closing remarks

· Eva Kaili, STOA Chair