Marie Curie Actions: On the last lap to Horizon 2020

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DRAFT PROGRAMME

European Conference 2013 Marie Curie Actions: On the last lap to Horizon 2020: Presentation

Day 1: 26 November 2013 12:3014:00

Registration and welcome coffee Opening of the Conference (Conference Room 1st Floor)

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Welcome by VicePresident of Tuscany Region, Stella Targetti Alberto Tesi, General Secretariat of the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI) Alessandra Luchetti, Head of Marie Curie Actions Unit, DG EAC, European Commission Dynamic lectures Moderator: Alberto Di Minin, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa Short Multidisciplinary Scientific Presentations Paola Romagnani, Department of Biomedical, Experimental and Clinical Sciences, University of Florence (Italy) Ugo Boggi, Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa (Italy) Guido Tonelli, Pisa Section of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and Department of Physics, University of Pisa (Italy) Giuseppe Iannaccone, Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa (Italy) Stefano Mancuso, Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Florence (Italy) Maurizio Bettini, Department of Classical Studies, University of Siena (Italy) Coffee Break Roundtable

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Looking forward Marie Sk!odowska - Curie Actions: What's in it for me? Abstract: Interactive roundtable presenting the new Marie Sk!odowska Curie Actions before the launch of the new programme. 16:1017:30 Moderator: Alessandra Luchetti, Head of Marie Curie Actions Unit, European Commission Panellists: Daniela Corda, Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), Delegate in the Committee of the Horizon 2020 Program, Actions Marie Sklodowska-Curie, ERC, FET Katia Insogna, APRE, National Contact Point for Marie Curie Actions 19:3022:30

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Day 2: 27 November 2013 (Conference Room 1st Floor) Focus industry- academia collaboration Presentation of the contribution of the M(S)CA to industry-academia collaboration, and testimonials from various stakeholders. 9:30- 10:30 Moderator: Marcela Groholova, Research Executive Agency Francesca Necchi, researcher at NOVARTIS, involved EID VADER Milena Salvo, ITN GlaCERCo-ITN project (coordinator) Anna Maria Altenberger, IAPP researcher involved in AIRFORS projec 10:3011:00 Coffee break Session on Big data and data mining Abstract: One of the most pressing, and fascinating, challenges of our time is understanding the complexity of the global interconnected society. Ours is also a time of opportunity to observe how our society works: the big data originating from the digital breadcrumbs of human activities, sensed as a byproduct of the ICT systems that we use every day, promise to let us scrutinize the ground truth of individual and collective behaviour at an unprecedented detail and at a global scale. Moderator: Domenico Laforenza, Director of the Institute for Informatics and Telematics IIT-CNR, President of the CNR Research area of Pisa (Italy) 11:0012:40 Panellists: Francesco Calabrese, IBM Research (Ireland)
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Francesco Calabrese, IBM Research (Ireland) Title: Understading urban dynamics from digital traces Zbigniew Smoreda, Orange Labs (France) Title: Sociology and Economics of Networks and Services dept. Justin Paschall, European Bioinformatics Institute (UK) Title: Genomics - The Big Data Within Each of Us Thomas Hofmann, Google & ETH Zurich Title: Machine Learning from Big Data: An Industry Perspective Paolo Ferragina, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa (Italy) Title: On the Power of Algorithms

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Lunch break Parallel sessions: MCA and Tuscan region addressing the Tuscan Flagships and EU societal Challenges Session A: Life Sciences and Neurosciences - Health, demographic change and wellbeing, Robotics and Biorobotics Moderators: Donata Medaglini, Head of the Laboratory of Microbial Immunity in the Department of Biotechnology at the University of Siena and Paolo Dario, Director of the BioRobotics Institute at the Scuola Superiore SantAnna of Pisa Speakers: Ennio De Gregorio, Head of Research Unit, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena (Italy) Title: Novel technologies for improved vaccines Francesco Giorgio Serchi, The Biorobotics Institute, Research Centre on Sea Technologies and Marine Robotics, Scuola Superiorie Sant'Anna of Pisa (Italy) MCA project: CFD-OctoProp Title: Computational Fluid Dynamics Aided Design of the Propulsion and Locomotion Systems of a Bioinspired Robot Octopus Kevin Loo, Czech Technical University (Czech Republic) CRMP, UOW (Australia) - MCA project ARDENT ITN Title: Radiation dosimetry and monitoring clinical ion in cancer therapy Rani Reshma, University of Pisa (Italy) MCA project LACTABLOCK (IIF) Title: Discovery of small molecules as starvation agents against cancer cells Ana Sousa Manso, University of Siena (Italy) and University of Leicester- (UK) - MCA project STARS

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Leicester- (UK) - MCA project STARS Title: Impact of the Marie Curie STARS ITN on development of early stage research career Ela Krawczyk, Queens University Belfast (UK), MCA project VALUE AGEING Title: Incorporating European fundamental values into ICT for ageing: a vital political, ethical, technological and industrial challenge Cristina Merakou, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics (Italy) and University of Siena, MCA project EIMID ITN Title: Staphylococcus aureus and host cell invasion: a new role of Elastin Binding Protein (EbpS) Rapporteur: Vanessa Sancho Shimizu, CIG fellow, Imperial College, (UK) Session B: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security, Climate Action, Marine Research, Bio-Economy Moderator: Francesco Loreto, Director of the Department of Biology and Agricultural Sciences (DiSBA) National Research Council (CNR) Speakers: Matthew Haworth, Institute of Biometeorology (IBIMET) and Institute for Plant Protection (IPP) National Research Council CNR (Italy), MCF project PEA (Photosynthesis and Earth Atmospheres) Title: Stomatal adaptation to atmospheric carbon dioxide: timescale and atmospheric composition effects on plant evolution Gianluca Brunori, Department of Agricultural, Alimentary and AgriEnvironmental Sciences, University of Pisa (Italy), Senior speaker project PUREFOOD Title: The role of urban and periurban areas in the construction of new food geographies Camilla Pandolfi, University of Florence (Italy), MCA - IEF project ROOTS Title: ROOTS The role of plant communication in improving the tolerance to selected to selected abiotic stresses Nadka Tz. Dintcheva, University of Palermo (Italy) and IEF Marie Curie at Aston University (UK) project NANOSTAB-GB (Novel NanoStabilisation for Green Bioplastic Nanocomposites) Title: Bio-Polymer Nanocomposites: Industrial opportunity or challenge? Laura Gomez Consarnau, Institute of Marine Sciences CMIMA, CSIC (Barcelona, Spain), IOF Fellow project ACIDIBACLIGHT Title: New methods and approaches towards the understanding of bacterial phototrophy in the ocean Blasius Azuhnwi, French National Institute for Agricultural Research INRA (Toulouse, France), project LegumePlus ITN Title: The LegumePlus MCA ITN - Example of bioresources for better animal feeds, less greenhouse gases and less parasites
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animal feeds, less greenhouse gases and less parasites Rapporteur: Toula Onoufriou, Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus), coordinator SMARTEN-ITN Session C: Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy, High Energy Physics, New and Nano Materials, Raw Materials, Photonics and Silicon Photonics Moderator: Pier Andrea Mand, Director of the Florence Section of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (Italy) Speakers: Marco Vignati, Rome Section of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (Italy), ERC StG project CALDER (Cryogenic wide-Area Light Detectors with Excellent Resolution) Title: Searching for Majorana neutrinos with cryogenic detectors Lapo Bogani, Physikalisches Institut, University of Stuttgart (Germany), ERC StG project OptoQMol (Optical Quantum Control of Magnetic Molecules) Title: Combining nanocarbon devices and molecular magnets Miriam Vitiello, Department of Physical Sciences and Technologies of Matter, National Research Council CNR (Italy), Researcher and Coordinator of the FIRB project FROnTERA (Fundamental Research on Terahertz Photonic Devices) Title: TeraHertz Photonics Benedetta Mennucci, Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa (Italy), ERC StG project EnLight: (The interplay between quantum coherence and environment in the photosynthetic electronic energy transfer and light-harvesting: a quantum chemical picture) Title: Lessons from nature about solar light harvesting: inspiration and opportunities Martino Calamai, European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy LENS (Italy), University of Florence (Italy), Researcher and Marie Curie IEF Fellow (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF-254791) Title: Biophotonics: a new approach to investigate neurodegenerative diseases Massimiliano Razzano, Department of Physics, University of Pisa (Italy) and Pisa Section of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (Italy), coordinator of the FIRB project New perspectives on the violent Universe: unveiling the physics of compact objects with joint observations of gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation Title: Exploring the high-energy Universe with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Rapporteur: Ramses V. Martinez, Ph.D IOF fellow, NANOTEST, Harvard University (US) Session D: Cultural Heritage, Social Innovation for an Inclusive,

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Innovative and Secure Societies, Knowledge Acceleration and ICT Moderator: Pierangela Diadori, Associate Professor for Modern Language Teaching Metodology at the University of Foreigners of Siena Speakers: Tuomas Paso, University of Oulu (Finland), IRSES project CONHEALTH (Cognitive-Networks-Enabled Transnational Proactive Healthcare) Patrizia Marti, University of Siena (Italy) and Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (Netherlands), project Reflective society: rethinking cultural heritage through design and technology Anastasios D. Doulamis, Technical University of Crete (Greece), project 4D-CH-WORLD (Four Dimensional Cultural Heritage World) Anna Lluveras, University of Pisa (Italy), project SYNOPYE (Saccharide Materials In Paint Systems: Nature, Occurrence And Physicochemical Evolution) Giovanna Campani, University of Florence (Italy), project SPRINGARAB ( Social Movements and Mobilisation Typologies in the Arab Spring) Roberto Castaldi, Scuola Superiore SantAnna of Pisa (Italy) Title: The European way out of the crisis Rapporteur: Marinos Ioannides, Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus), ITN DCH coordinator Title: The Challenges of ICT for an Innovative Europe

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Coffee break Plenary session (Conference Room: 1st Floor) Rapporteurs summary of the parallel sessions Conclusions (Conference Room 1st Floor) Stella Targetti, VicePresident Tuscany Region Massimo Inguscio, Director of the Department of Physical Sciences and Technologies of Matter, National Research Council (CNR) Alessandra Luchetti, Head of Marie Curie Actions Unit, DG EAC, European Commission Maria Chiara Carrozza, Italian Minister of Research and Education

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