The anniversary event to mark the European Science Foundation’s 40 years, which will take place on 15-16 May 2014 in Strasbourg, is by invitation only.  You will find the programme below.

All comments & questions should be addressed to: anniversary40[a]esf.org.

ERAGE, 4 rue Brûlée, 67000 Strasbourg, Auditorium – ground floor

13:30        

| Opening of event by Professor Pär Omling, President and Martin Hynes, Chief  Executive

13:40       

| Welcome by Mayor of Strasbourg - tbc

13:55        

| Introduction by Professor Alain Beretz, President, University of Strasbourg

14:10

| Round Table: ‘ESF’s Added-Value’,  moderator - Tim Radford (journalist & sicence writer)

- Markus Arndt, Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna

- Helen Bridle, Heriot-Watt University

- Anne-Marie Glynn, EMBO, Heidelberg

- Jean-Pierre Henriet, Renard Centre of Marine Geology, Ghent University

- Maria Mota, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Lisbon

- Ineke Stoop, the Netherlands Institute for Social Research

15:45        

| Coffee break

16:15        

| Panel:  'New Science: evidence-based research', moderator - Richard Hudson (Science Business)

- Bertil Andersson, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

- Godefroy Beauvallet, AXA Research

- Paul Boyle, Science Europe

- Dirk Helbing, ETH, Zürich

- Ingrid Wünning-Tschol, Bosch Foundation

18:00

| Key-note speech by Professor Jean-Marie Lehn (Nobel Prize Chemistry 1987)

18.45

Visit of Nobel laureates photographic exhibition by Peter Badge, Place Broglie, Strasbourg followed by cocktail offered by the City of Strasbourg at the Hôtel de Ville, 9 rue Brûlée, Strasbourg

20:30               

European Science Foundation, Common Room, 1 quai Lezay-Marnésia, 67000 Strasbourg

09:00 – 12:00     

Gathering for present and former ESF staff

• 40th Anniversary ProgrammePDF - 725 KB
• 40th Anniversary - Practical-InformationPDF - 513 KB