Fundamental Life Science meets Climate, Environment and Sustainability – Science Summit
Basic research studies that are transdisciplinary in nature, create partnerships across the life sciences, social sciences, and environmental sciences and can greatly accelerate our transition to a more sustainable world. To support such collaborations, we need the support of policymakers, science funding leaders, universities, and those in government.
In 2023, HFSP aims to be the first organization to bring together and support these disparate science communities, by organizing a Science Summit and a Scientific Symposium titled “Fundamental Life Science meets Climate, Environment and Sustainability: new bridges, new partnerships, new opportunities” in Paris.
HFSP is partnering with a diverse array of organizations to organize the Science Summit and the Scientific Symposium to make the fullest possible use of cross-cutting initiatives. The HFSP Science Summit will unite scientists, science funders, policymakers and politicians from different scientific fields to connect basic life science and climate, environment and sustainability science to harness new opportunities.
Program
| 13.15 -14.00 | Opening and Welcome Remarks |
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President Emmanuel Macron, France (tbc) |
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| 14.00 – 14.45 | Setting the Scene |
| Presentations and discussions by representatives of the major groups convening at the Summit Robbert Dijkgraaf, Minister of Education, Culture and Science, the Netherlands Marcia McNutt, President, National Academy of Sciences, USA Jules Hoffmann, University of Strasbourg, Nobel Laureate Nobel Prize 2011 (Physiology and Medicine) Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Deputy Chair, Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (GCSA) to the European Commission Chaired and moderated by: Mona Nemer, Chief Science Advisor to the Government of Canada |
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| 14.45 – 15.30 | Strategic and science policy implications of employing basic science to support transformation to sustainability |
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Ministerial and Heads of (Inter) Governmental Agencies Panel |
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| 15.30 -15.50 | In conversation with: |
| Ukrainian scientists and their hosts supported by the HFSPO Scientists for Scientists Initiative Brief statement by Vadim Omelchenko, Ambassador of Ukraine to France (tbc) Signe Ratso, Deputy Director-General, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission with: Anastasiia Maljuk, National Museum of Natural History at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv hosted by Mehran Moazen, University College London, UK Solomiya Lebid, Lviv Polytechnic National University hosted by German Sumbre, Institut de Biologie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France |
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| 15.50 – 16.30 | Break |
| 16.30 – 17.30 | Science Highlights: |
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Tandem talks to illustrate the opportunities to connect science communities for the advancement of the sustainable development agenda Ocean biodiversity and resources at risk Food security in a changing world Individuals, institutions, and societal transformations |
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| 17.30 -18.45 | How to respond to this Call ? |
| 17.30 -18.00 | Discussion panel of heads of international science policy funding and coordination organizations |
| Pascale Bracconot, Vice Chair of the Joint Scientific Committee, World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Lidia Brito, Assistant Director General for Natural Sciences (designate), UNESCO Thierry Damerval, Science Europe Governing Board and President-Director, Agence National de la Recherche, France Anne Ephrussi, Director EICAT, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Ted Hewitt, Chair, Canada Research Coordinating Committee Maria Leptin, President, European Research Council Valerie Masson-Delmotte, Co-Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chaired and moderated by: Sir Peter Gluckman, President, International Science Council |
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| 18.00 -18.45 | Round table of Funding Agency Presidents |
| Kian Teik Beh, Chief Executive, National Research Foundation, Singapore Paula Eerola, President, Academy of Finland Anne Kelso, Chief Executive Officer, National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia Hasan Mandal, President, Tübitak, Turkey Yoshinao Mishima, President, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development Fulufhelo Nelwamondo, Chief Executive Officer, National Research Foundation / Matlagolo Mosa Moshabela, Chairperson of the Board, National Research Foundation, South Africa Antoine Petit, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France Mahmoud Sakr, President, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt Michael Strong, President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research Mari Sundli Tveit, Chief Executive, Research Council of Norway Melanie Welham, Chief Executive, Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council, UK Chaired and moderated by: Lidia Borrell-Damian, Secretary-General, Science Europe and Theresa Good, Division of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience, National Science Foundation, USA and Vice President of HFSPO |
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| 18.45 – 19.00 | The Way Ahead |
| Sylvie Retailleau, Minister of Higher Education and Research, France Shigekazu Nagata, President HFSPO Pavel Kabat, Secretary-General, HFSPO |
