International Conference on Competence Research Centre Programmes

Düsseldorf 3 February 2009

Maritim Hotel

9.00 – 9.15	Registration and coffee
9.15 – 9.30	Welcome, Alexander Grablowitz, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF
9.30 – 10.30	Session 1: Good practices with CRC programme set-up
	Chair: D. Kavlie, Research Council of Norway
	• Experiences from COMPERA (F. Monteny, Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders)
	• Outcome of the CREST WG on Industry led CRCs (M. Hussey, Enterprise Ireland)
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee
11.00 – 12.00	Session 2: Experiences with the management of CRC programmes
	Chair: M. Lundberg, VINNOVA
	• Spill overs of CRCs - the case of Northern Irelands Centres of Excellence (S. Roper, Warwick Business School)
	• Management the second generation of CRC programmes in Austria and Sweden (O. Starzer, Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft)
12.00 – 13.00	Session 3: International cooperation of CRC programmes
	Chair: D. Rehfeld, IAT Gelsenkirchen
	• Instruments and tools for the internationalisation of CRCs (X. Maidagan, InnoBasque, General Manager Internationalisation)
	• Experiences regional cross-border cooperation (Dr. Wolfgang Blank, CEO BioCon Valley GmbH)
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 15.00	Session 4: CRCs in Europe, what about the future?
	Chair: S. Stahl-Rolf, VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH
	• The (potential) role of CRCs in the European Research Area (N.N., European Commission)
	• CRCs in perspective: future trends of CRC-related programmes (Erik Arnold, Technopolis)
15.00 – 16.00	Session 5:Conclusions & discussion
	Chair: Maarten Sileghem, Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders
	• Conclusions of the meeting: viewpoints
	• Moderated Debate (D. Rehfeld, IAT Gelsenkirchen)
16.00 – 17.00	Networking drink