Hungarian Academy of Sciences

14.00 - 18.00 

18.00 - 21.00

Registration

Welcome party,
by E. Sylvester Vizi, President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

08.00 - 09.00

Registration

09.00 - 09.45
Room A

Opening greetings
with video screens in Room B

E. Sylvester Vizi, President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Ferenc Mádl, President of the Republic of Hungary
Representative of Romano Prodi, President, European Commission
Walter Erdelen, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO
Goverdhan Mehta, President Elect, International Council for Science

09.45 - 12.00
Room A

Alexandre Lámfalussy
First President, European Monetary Institute
Knowledge, Science and Economic growth: A European Perspective

10.45 - 11.15

Harvey V. Fineberg
President, Institute of Medicine, The National Academies, USA
Do Medical Advances Improve the Quality of Life?

Goverdhan Mehta
Former President, Indian Academy of Science president Elect, International Council for Science
Knowledge, society and development in the 21st Century

11.45 - 12.00

Viktor Orbán
Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary

14.00 - 17.30

Room A 

Knowledge, environment and development

Chair and Main Key-note Speaker

Mohamed El-Ashry
Former Chairman, Global Environment Facility, Egypt/USA
Knowledge, environment and development

Key-note Speakers

Thomas Rosswall
Executive Director, ICSU

Shem Oyoo Wandiga
University of Nairobi, Kenya
A science policy on knowledge led society and development

George Schopflin
Jean Monnet Professor of Politics, UCL-SSEES, United Kingdom
New driving forces behind development

Room B 

Knowledge and quality of life

Hans Wigzell
Rector, The Karolinska Institute, Chief Scientific Adviser of the Swedish Government, Sweden
Key-note Speakers

Sir George K. Radda
Chief Executive, Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
Knowledge and quality of life with particular relevance to the ageing population

Craig Venter
President of the Center for the Advancement of Genomics, USA

Jean-Pierre Changeux
College de France & Institut Pasteur, France

Room C 

Knowledge and science

Chair and Main Key-note Speaker

Alain Pompidou
Professor of Medicine, René Descartes University, France
Science and policy decision making

Sir Alec Broers
Royal Academy of Engineering, United Kingdom
Universities and industry working together - The need for collaboration in the development of high technology

Pieter Drenth
President, All European Academies, The Netherlands
Science: Does it matter?

Masao Ito
Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan
New situations in science - Research fields, disciplines, integration and internationalization

Jan Uddenfeldt
Senior Vice President, Ericsson, Sweden
Knowledge, what is it? - A case study: Mobile Communication

09.00 - 11.30
Room A 

Plenary Session
with video screens in Room B

09.00 - 09.30

Achilleas Mitsos
Director General, Commission of the European Union, DG-XII
Knowledge, science and research in the EU in the 21st century

Julia Marton-Lefevre
Executive Director, LEAD, United Kingdom
Knowledge and action - environment and sustainable development

10.00 - 10.30

10.30 - 11.00

William A. Wulf
President, Academy of Engineering, the National  Academies, USA
Challenges for Computing and Information Technology In The Twenty First Century

Péter Boross
Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary

Gyula Horn
Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary

14.00 - 17.30

Parallel Thematic Sessions

Room A

Main Key-note Speaker

Sergio Barabaschi
Vice-President, Euro CASE, Italy
Knowledge-based economy

Tero Ojanperä
Senior Vice President, Nokia, Finland
Knowledge-based economy: vision, values and strategy

András Inotai
Director, Institute for World Economics, Hungary

Wim Wielens
CEO of EMEA Region, Philips, The Netherlands

Room B

Peter A. Freeman
Assistant Director, National Science Foundation, USA
New approaches to knowledge for an information-based society

Tamás Roska
Professor of Information Technology, Hungary
Information, knowledge and an extension of reasoning to spatial-temporal domain - a neuro-inspired approach in an age of abundant information

Nicolaus Lobkowicz
Director, ZIMOS, Germany and USA

Gennadi Ivanovich Savin
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Information society and knowledge

Room C

Rainer Gerold
Director, "Science and Society" at the Research Directorate-General of the European Commission

Chantal Delsol
Professor of Philosophy, France
How and why there is a specific relation with knowledge in Europe

Lourdes Arizpe
President, International Social Science Council

Mariano Gago
Former Minister for Science, Portugal

19.00:

09.00 - 09.10

Greetings from the Hungarian Parliament

Katalin Szili
Speaker of the Parliament

09.10 - 10.10

Summary and conclusions of the six thematic sessions (10 min each):
session chairs

General conclusions and proposals for the future

Norbert Kroó
Secretary General, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

10.30 - 10.50

World Academy of Young Scientists

10.50 - 10.55

Proposals for the continuation of the World Science Forum series

10.55 - 11.15

11.15 - 11.45

Presentation of the UNESCO Prizes

Walter Erdelen
Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO

József Hámori
Chair of the Advisory Board, President of the UNESCO World Conference on Science 1999

11.45 - 12.10

Vaira Vike-Freiberga
President of the Republic of Latvia

12.10 - 12.30

Closing plenary speech

Péter Medgyessy
Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary

12.30 - 12.40

E. Sylvester Vizi
President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Science, knowledge, society, and future: Challenges and responsibilities