Organised jointly by SwissCore and the Mission of Switzerland to the European Union. The Swiss Science Briefing is a platform for presenting specific aspects of the Swiss research landscape. High level speakers are invited to discuss the selected topic in a European context.
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18 March 2010
Future and Emerging Information Technologies: Multidisciplinary research as new European vision
Zoran Stancic, Deputy Director General, DG INFSO, European Commission
Henry Markram, Director of the Center for Neuroscience and Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)
Patrick Aebischer, President of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)
26 October 2009
Realizing the ERA bottom up: the Lead Agency Procedure as a cornerstone of a European Grant Union
Dieter Imboden, President of the Research Council, SNSF
Georg Bechtold, Programme Manager, German Research Foundation (DFG)
Anneli Pauli, Deputy Director-General, DG Research, European Commission
27 November 2008
SystemsX.ch: Joint Programming for Systems Biology in Switzerland
Ruedi Aebersold, Chairman of the Scientific Executive Board, SystemsX.ch
Daniel Vonder Mühll, Managing Director, SystemsX.ch
Robert-Jan Smits, Director, DG Research, European Commission
9 October 2007
Integrating the knowledge triangle: The Swiss Finance Institute - a model for the European Institute of Technology?
Jean-Pierre Danthine, Managing Director of the Swiss Finance Institute
Matteo Bonifacio, Policy Developer, DG Education and Culture, European Commission
17 June 2005
How about networks ? Instruments to strengthen excellence in the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities
Hanspeter Kriesi, University of Zurich and Coordinator of the Swiss Centre in Competence in Research "Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century"
Ramon Marimon, University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and former Spanish Secretary of State for Science and Technology
17 November 2004
Swiss Houses: Outposts for Swiss Science in USA and Asia
Claudio Fischer, Head of International Affairs, Swiss Science Agency
22 April 2004
How to Build a World-Class University
Patrick Aebischer, President of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne
Nikolaus G. van der Pas, Director General, European Commission DG Education and Culture
2 June 2003
Research at the Cutting Edge. Experience in Europe and in the USA
Kurt Wüthrich, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2002, Professor of Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Professor of Structural Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA
Achilleas Mitsos, Director General, European Commission DG Research
20 November 2002
When direct democracy and scientific research clash: Science and Society in Dialogue Lessons learnt form the Swiss context
Claude Longchamp, Director of GfS Research Institute
Bruno Oesch, CEO Prionics SA
Rainer Gerold, Director Science & Society, European Commission
27 June 2001
Integrating and Structuring Research in Switzerland the National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCR) Programme
Heidi Diggelmann, President of the Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation
Michel Aguet, Director of ISREC (Institut Suisse de Recherche Expérimentale sur le Cancer) and Coordinator of the Swiss Centre in Competence in Research "Molecular Oncology - from Basic Research to Therapeutic Approaches"