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Sessions programme

Thursday, Jun 20
Time
10:30 - 13:30 Parallel meetings

  • Thematic Working Groups meeting

  • PLACES Stakeholders Assembly Meeting

  • PLACES Executive Committee Meeting
13:00 - 14:15 Lunch
14:30 - 14:45 Welcome from Torino Smart City
14:45 - 15:15 Keynote speech

Speaker: Katherine Richardson, Professor, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • How does science dialogue change policy?
15:15 - 15:30 Inside the PLACES project

Antonio Gomes da Costa, PLACES Coordinator, Brussels, Belgium will round up what's happened in the project so far, discuss priorities for the project's final year and introduce the City Partnership Poster Gallery.
15:30 - 16:30 City partnerships part 1: Poster session and coffee

Meet in the poster gallery to get first-hand insight into the innovative efforts of PLACES City Partnerships in their processes related to: Local Action Plans, Pilot Activities and Public Consultations.
16:30 - 17:30 City Partnerships part 2: City Partnerships, Local Action Plans and Pilot Activities

Meet some of the most dynamic City Partnerships throughout Europe and have a discussion on new methods of science communication and dialogue based on the poster session.
17:30 - 18:30 Science culture across the regions: Key issues from the regional dimension
18:30 - 18:45 Moderator's conclusions
20:00 - 22:00 Cocktail, followed by a buffet dinner at the National Cinema Museum

The National Museum of Cinema (Museo Nazionale del Cinema) located in Turin, is an Italian motion picture museum, fitted out inside the Mole Antonelliana tower. It is operated by the Maria Adriana Prolo Foundation. www.museonazionaledelcinema.it. Buffet dinner begins at 20:30.
Friday, Jun 21
Time
09:00 - 09:50 Keynote speech

Speaker: Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Advisory to the European Union
10:00 - 10:45 PLACES Impact Assessment Toolkit: Potential and possibilities

The PLACES Impact Assessment Toolkit: how to measure the impact of science centres, cities and events in your region

  • Speaker: Gema Revuelta, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee
11:15 - 11:30 What's standing in our way?

Study on the Obstacles to science communication policies, presented by the Conseil Generale de l'Essone, Essone, France
11:30 - 12:30 Outside looking in: External cities talk science communication policy

Cities of scientific culture who are not registered as PLACES cities will present their science communication activities and policies.
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 From ‘Science in Society’ to ‘Responsible Research and Innovation’

What will Horizon 2020 and the European Research Area mean for science communicators?

  • Speakers: Gilles Laroche, Head of Unit on Ethics and Gender at the European Commission's Directorate General for Research & Innovation, Brussels, Belgium, and Jeroen van den Hoven, Professor, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
14:30 - 15:00 The Paris outcomes: Where are we now?

Where are two years after the 1st PLACES Conference: Science communication policies, held in Paris, France, in October 2011?

The Paris conference yielded nine main points. We will revisit these and analyze what has been realized and what is left to accomplish.
15:00 - 15:45 Ciao Turin, Wilkommen Bremen

We will round up the key recommendations from Turin and look forward to the final PLACES Conference in Bremen, Germany, set for March 2014.
15:45 - 16:30 Final networking coffee and arrivederci