Conference Programme DAY 1 Thursday, June 24 9.00 – 17.00 EARMA OLD ExCom Meeting (Closed Session - for EARMA ExCom members and Auditors only) 14.00 – 20.00 Registration of participants 20.00 Welcoming reception   DAY 2 Friday, June 25 8.00 – 9.00 Registration of participants 9.00 – 10.15 Opening Ceremony Keynote by Professor Dr. Walter Kroll President of the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers, Germany 10.15– 10.45 Coffee break 10.45– 12.45 Parallel sessions 1. Research Management & Administration best practice Session Chair: Peter Buttner 2. Developing careers in research management and administration Session Chair: Dagmar Meyer Chair of the Marie Curie Fellowship Association Best Practice in Founding Regional Professional Associations of Research Managers and Administrators Peter Buttner, Vice-President EARMA, Bruxelles, Belgium Presentation of the Commission's initiatives to promote the mobility of Researchers (in particular the Mobility Portal and the Network of Mobility Centers) and to foster the development of scientific careers Sigi Gruber, European Commission, Directorate D - The human factor, mobility and Marie Curie activities, Unit 1 "Strategy and policy", Bruxelles, Belgium The challenges for Research Management and Administration in New EU Members States - the Case of Warsaw University, Poland Barbara Arciszewska, Diana Pustula, Warsaw University, Poland Report on the results of a number of extensive surveys and studies in the areas of training, mobility, career issues, and equal opportunities that have been performed by the MCFA Science Policy Committee Magda Lola, MCFA (Secretary General and Coordinator of the Science Policy Committee) and CERN, Human Resources Division, Geneva, Switzerland Public Awareness of Science Manuela Arata, General Director - National Institute for the Physics of Matter (INFM), Italy Presentation of the KoWi Initiative "MORE", a project for excellent young researchers from the Central and Eastern European Countries Sebastian Stetter, KoWi (European liaison office of the German research organizations), Bruxelles, Belgium Managing Environmental Research and Development in the UK John Holmes, Environment Agency for England and Wales, UK Case study: Mobility from West to East - experiences of a Scottish Marie Curie fellow in Lithuania. First experiences with the "Marie Curie Chair" programme for excellent researchers. Charles Woolfson, ECOHSE (European Center for Occupational Health, Safetyand the Environment), Director, Glasgow, UK Peer Review Bench marking Nigel Birch, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Swindon, UK INFM training programmes: facingthe international research market Laura Strazzeri, National Institute for the Physics of Matter (INFM), Italy 12.45 – 14.15 Lunch (with gathering of EARMA Working Groups) 14.15 – 15.45 Parallel Sessions 3. Managing, Valuing & Reporting the products of R&D Session Chair: Campbell Warden 4. Strategic planning for international collaboration Session Chair: Piotr Swiatek EU-Bureau of Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany Managing, Valuing & Reporting Knowledge and other forms of Intellectual Capital by HEROs (Higher Education and Research Organizations) Acceding/Associated Countries in FP6 - analysis of cooperation patterns and network structures Piotr Swiatek, EU-Bureau of Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany Campbell Warden, Coordinator of EARMA W.G. VIMaK in HEROs, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canaries, Spain Managing Networks of Synergic Knowledge Creation Zvi Lanir, Praxis Institute, Israel Karl-Heinz Leitner, Department of Technology Policy, ARC systems research GmbH, Seibersdorf, Germany Getting Ready for Framework 7 Sean McCarthy, Hyperion Ltd., Ireland Adrian Curaj, Director, Executive Agency for Higher Education and Research Funding, Bucharest, Romania "COST - Instrument for integration of Research in Europe" Mihail Pascu, Scientific Officer COST - Medicine and Health; Biomaterials, Bruxelles, Belgium 15.45 – 16.15 Coffee break 16.15 – 18.00 Plenary Sessions Management of change in research the challenges of the real world Session Chair: Frank Heemskerk EARMA President - Professor Bertil Andersson   Chief Executive, European Science Foundation - Professor Dr. Walter Kroll   President of the Helmholtz Gemeinschaft, Germany - Dr. Liba Svobodova   IBM Research GmbH (Zurich, Switzerland) 18.00 – 18.30 Newcomers welcome Session Chair: Frank Heemskerk EARMA President 20.30 Conference dinner at pituresque, lakeside Snagov Conference Centre outside Bucharest   DAY 3 Saturday, June 26 9.00 – 9.30 Plenary Scientific Environment in Romania 9.45– 11.15 EARMA general assembly 11.15 – 11.30 Presentation of 10th Anniversary EARMA Conference 2005 11.30 – 11.45 Coffee break 11.45– 13.15 Parallel sessions 5. Public & private partnership for technology transfer and innovation promotion Session Chair: Prof. Anton Anton, Vice-President National University Research Council, Romania 6. Knowledge Transfer Session Chair: Shabtay Dover EARMA ExCom, Bruxelles, Belgium Public & Private Partnership in IT Sector Ph.D. Mariana Mocanu, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania Project: PROTON pymERA - The Spanish way to increase SME participation in the ERA Tanja E.J. Vos, pymERA - ITI, Spain   "Biotechnology for competitiveness: Public-private partnership in defining Estonian policy" Tarmo Kelvet, Director of Innovation Programm at the PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies, Estonia and University of Tatu, Estonia   13.15 – 14.30 Lunch (with gathering of EARMA Working Groups) 14.30 – 16.00 Parallel sessions 7. Intellectual Property: Policies, Provisions, Issues and best practice Session Chair: Terry Young, Past president-AUTM, USA 8. Research management in the Academic Environment Session Chair: Dr. Joseph Puchta European Universities Association, Germany System for technologies transfer and commercialization in the university of innovative type Pokholkov Yu.P., Vlasov V.A., Klimenov V.A.Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia Perspective of Romanian University Prof. dr. Ioan Dumitrache NURC President IP rules of the FP and especially FP6 and an Israeli similar program Amiram Porath, TAU EU Officer, Israel Perspective of American Research Institute Dr. Michael Lanner, Executiv Vice-President CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, USA Perspective of young Spanish University Dr. Lidia Borrell, Head of Research Area Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain EARMA NEW ExCom Meeting (Closed Session - for EARMA ExCom members only) 16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break 16.30 – 17.00 Plenary session Session Chair: Frank Heemskerk President EARMA 17.00 – 17.15 Closing ceremony 17.30 – 19.00 Networking event with regional science and business leaders. 19.00 Networking Dinner (optional) top