European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
HORIZON 2020
INFORMATION DAY
Minsk, BELARUS, 24 February 2014
66 Nezavisimisti ave., Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences,
2nd Floor, Grand Conference Hall

Focus areas: Energy, Climate and Environment, Health

PROGRAM

09.00 – 09.30	Registration	
Plenary session 1
Grand Conference Hall
Moderator:  Tatyana LYADNOVA, Belarusian Institute of System Analysis and Information Support of Scientific and Technical Sphere (BelISA)
	
09.30 – 10.00	Welcome and introduction
Alexander SHUMILIN, Chairman of the State Committee on Science and Technology of Belarus
Maira MORA, Ambassador, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Belarus
Sergey KILIN, Chief Research Secretary of the National Academy of Science of Belarus 
	
10.00 – 10.30	Overview of the Horizon 2020 (rules for participation, international cooperation, structure, how the calls 2014-2015 are organized, FP7 statistics, information sources)
Olga MEEROVSKAYA, FP7 National Coordinator, BelISA
	
10.30 – 10.45	Experience of participation in EU-funded collaborative research on new materials (based on TheBarCoDe and SOFC600 FP projects)
Oleg SMORYGO, Institute of Powder Metallurgy, NAS
	
10.45 – 11.00	Get support: presentation of IncoNet EaP project and national system of H2020 contact points
Olga MEEROVSKAYA, BelISA
	
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee-break

Plenary session 2
Grand Conference Hall
Moderator: Olga MEEROVSKAYA, BelISA	
11.30 – 12.30

12.30 – 12.45
	Overview of the Maria Sklodovska-Curie Actions
Elena-Gabriela CHIRA, Research Executive Agency of the European Commission 

Role of the EU-supported staff exchange projects in strengthening a potential of a research laboratory (based on TerACan, Cacomel, FAEMCAR, NAmiceMC, CANTOR IRSES projects)
Polina KUZHIR, Institute of Nuclear Problems, Belarusian State University
	
12.45 – 13.00

13.00 – 13.15

13.15 – 13.30
	Research Infrastructure Programme: opportunities for Belarus
Tatyana LYADNOVA, National Contact Point “Research Infrastructure”, BelISA

ICT cooperation with EU: experience of the United Institute of Informatics Problems, National Academy of Sciences (based on Baltic Grid, EGI-INSPIRE, ORIENTplus, etc FP7 projects)
Alexey BELOTSERKOVSKY, United Institute of Informatics Problems, NAS

Q&A	
13.30 – 14.15
	Coffee & snack break
	
Thematic sessions (parallel)

Thematic session “HEALTH”, room 216
Moderator: Igor VOLOTOVSKY, NAS
	
14.15 – 16.00	Societal Challenge “Health, demographic change and wellbeing”: calls 2014-2015 and perspectives for international cooperation
Michele GENOVESE, APRE - Agency for the Promotion of European Research (Italy), EU Liaison Unit in Brussels
Q&A	

Thematic session “Energy & Climate”, Grand Conference Hall
Moderator: Olga MEEROVSKAYA, BelISA
	
14.15 – 15.15

15.15 – 16.15

16.15 – 16.40

16.40 – 17.00	Societal Challenge “Secure, clean and efficient energy” calls 2014-2015
Katarzyna SOBÓTKA-DEMIANOWSKA, National Contact Point “Energy”, National Contact Point for Cooperation with EU Programmes, Poland

Societal Challenge “Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials”
Vojtech NOSEK, GRANT Garant s.r.o., Czech Republic

Get support: EU-funded cluster of projects to support “research to innovation” in Belarus Energy sector
Alexander USPENSKY, Republican Center of Technology Transfer, Belarus (NoGAP)
Evgeny GURINOV, BelISA (ENER2I)
Olga MEEROVSKAYA, BelISA (INNOVER-EAST)

Q&A	

Materials presented at the Information day will be uploaded after the event in the National Science Portal, http://scienceportal.org.by and the web-site of the FP7 National Information Point in Belarus, http://fp7-nip.org.by (see the section “Horizon 2020”).