CESSDA ERIC Launch

Programme

CESSDA ERIC Launch - Bergen, 14th of June 2017

Location: Radisson Royal Blu Hotel - Dreggsallmenningen 1, 5003 Bergen (where is this?)
15:00-17:30 CESSDA ERIC SYMPOSIUM
15:00 - 15:10 Welcome by Kari Balke Øiseth, Director-General Ministry of Education & Research and Chair of the CESSDA AS General Assembly
15:10 - 15:25 Speech by Bjørn Haugstad, State Secretary Ministry of Education & Research
Open Science in Norway
15:25 - 15:40 Dag Rune Olsen, Rector of the University of Bergen
Our Research Future
15:40 - 16:10 Keynote speech by Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General of DG Research & Innovation of the European Commission
ERIC ceremony: Robert-Jan Smits awards the ERIC assignment
16:10 - 16:40 Coffee Break
16:40 - 17:20 Role of CESSDA, panel discussion chaired by Bjørn Henrichsen, Director of NSD and Chair of the CESSDA Board of Directors
  • Bjørn Henrichsen - Introduction to CESSDA (from Council to Consortium)
  • Panel members:
    • Miloslav Bahna (SK) – strengthening & widening, views from Slovakia
    • Rory Fitzgerald (ESS, SERISS) – collaboration in Social Sciences
    • Alexia Katsanidou (GESIS) – training and interoperable data
    • Matthew Woollard (UKDA) – service providers in CESSDA
17:20 - 17:30 CESSDA – present & future, Ron Dekker, Director of CESSDA
17:30 Closing
Location: CESSDA House, Parkveien 20, 5007 Bergen (where is this?)
18:00 - 19:00 CESSDA Open House
Location: University of Bergen, Aula, Muséplassen 3, 5007 Bergen (where is this?)
19:00 - 19:30 Welcome drinks
19:30 - 21:30 Dinner hosted by the University of Bergen and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research