A Reception to Honour Robert-Jan Smits; Research Infrastructures - The Cradle of Science and Innovation

Monday 10 Sept 2018, 18:00 → 21:40 Europe/Stockholm

    

The research infrastructures community in Europe is organizing a reception to honour the work Robert-Jan Smits has put in over many years to advance European science. The event will take place on 10 September 2018 in the Naturhistorisches Museum (Natural History Museum) in Vienna, Austria. It will bring together representatives of research infrastructures, ERICs, and ESFRI delegates and chairs. The program will include short talks reflecting the viewpoints and experience from some of the many research infrastructures and groups that Robert-Jan Smits worked with during his long-term service to European research and science.

20180904_RJS_Farewell Reception_Programme_3_PRINT.pdf

18:00 → 18:15 Arrival of Guests / Registration

18:00 → 19:00 The Beauty of Vienna

Guided tour through the museum and welcome drinks on the museum’s rooftop terrace (3 groups)

19:00 → 19:10 Welcome to the Natural History Museum

Convener: Christian Köberl (Director General)

19:10 → 21:30 Reception (flying buffet) and Greetings

19:10 Welcome

Speakers: Barbara Weitgruber (Director General, BMBWF), John Womersley (Director General, ESS)

19:30 ESFRI – More than a Roadmap

Speakers: Giorgio Rossi (ESFRI Chairman), Hans Chang (NIKHEF, First ESFRI Chairman)

19:50 Horizon 2020 – More than FP8

Speaker: Andrew Harrison (CEO, Diamond Light Source Ltd)

20:15 The ERIC – More than a Legal Entity

Speaker: Jana Kolar (Director, CERIC-ERIC)

20:40 Robert-Jan Smits – More than a Director General

Speaker: Carlo Rizzuto (Chair of the General Assembly, CERIC-ERIC)

21:10 Director General for Research and Innovation – More than a Job

Speaker: Robert-Jan Smits

21:30 → 21:40 End of Reception