Day 2 - 5th July 2018

Thursday, 5th of July 2018

08:30	Registration Venue: Congress Innsbruck, Rennweg 3, 6020 Innsbruck

09:00	Plenary Opening
	Simone Van Trier, Moderator

	Welcome from the Hosts Marcus Hofer, CEO of Standortagentur Tirol

	Austrian Presidency Official Trailer

	Official Opening of WIRE 2018 Patrizia Zoller-Frischauf, Minister for Economic Affairs, Tyrol Barbara Weitgruber, Director General Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, Austrian EU Presidency 2018

	Welcome from DG Research and Innovation Jean-Eric Paquet, Director General for Research and Innovation

10:15	Coffee Break

10:45	Plenary Session

	Innovative regions and global connectivity (download presentation as pdf) Riccardo Crescenzi, Full Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science, ERC Grant Holder

11:30	Panel Discussion Sharing Excellence and Synergies with other EU programmes including ESIF Policy discussion on the regional dimensions of the 9^th EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Jean-Eric Paquet, Director General for Research and Innovation, European Commission Erich Unterwurzacher, DG Regio, European Commission Lambert van Nistelrooij, European Parliament Moderated by Simone van Trier

12:30	Lunch

14:00	Themes - Parallel Sessions

	Track A: Science & Research Rolf Altenburger, Environmental Research Center (Leipzig Halle), Germany (download presentation as pdf) Andreja Kutnar, University of Primorska/ Director of the InnoRenew CoE Renewable materials and healthy environments research and innovation centre of excellence, Slovenia Iryna Kristensen, NORDREGIO, Sweden Jiří Nantl, Maseryk University/CEITEC, Brno Stefan Fitz-Rankl, University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg, Austria Moderator: Stefan Weiers, EC DG RTD Rapporteur: Adeline Kroll, EC DG RTD

	Track B: Entrepreneurship Helena Acheson, c3 - solutions Stuttgart, Germany Juha Tall, Agency for Rural Affairs, Finland Harald Oberrauch, Durst Phototechnik AG, Tyrolean Business Angels, Italy Roberto Napoli, C-Lab Contamination lab of the University of Trento, Italy (download presentation) Moderator: Lisa Spöck, Standortagentur Tirol Rapporteur: Stefanie Höllinger, Standortagentur Tirol

	Track C: Connectivity & Infrastructure Wolfgang Streicher, University of Innsbruck, Austria Claus Habfast, Grenoble Metropole, France Tatiana Kováčiková, University of Zilina, ERA Chair (MoTiV project), Slovakia Jürgen Haberleithner, APEC Study Centre/University of Colima/EC, JRC Directorate B - Growth and Innovation, B3 Unit: Territorial Development/Smart Specialisation Platform, Seville (download presentation as pdf) Moderator: Pirita Lindholm, ERRIN Rapporteur: Christina Lercher, Standortagentur Tirol

15:30	Coffee Break

16:00	Hosted by… Sessions
	Host 1: EUSALP (AG 1 and AG 2) New Approaches for need-based cross-regional cooperation to cope with Alpine Region Challenges Andreas Atena, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Benedikt Sedlmayr, Cluster Agency Baden-Württemberg, Germany Emanuela Zilio, Center of Excellence for Mountain Studies of the University of Milan, Italy Anna Giorgi, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Milan, Italy Moderator: Lukas Nögel, Cluster Agency Baden-Württemberg, Germany Host 2: ERRIN/ Auvergne-Rhônes-Alpes Cooperation between regional innovation ecosystems: Inspiration from Alpine Regions Hortense Lutz-Hermellin, Head of Brussels office, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France Valentina Pinna, Head of Research and Innovation sector, Lombardy Region, Italy Quentin Courbon, project manager, VIAMECA, France Philip Pfaller, Bavarian Research Alliance, Germany Paolo Gregori, Managing Director, “ProM” Mechatronics prototyping facility of Trentino Sviluppo, Italy Pirita Lindholm, ERRIN Moderator: Thomas Ammerl, Bavarian Research Alliance Host 3: European Cluster Collaboration Platform / Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs / Clusterix 2.0 Cluster Transforming Technologies and New Business Models Maria Bendl, Federal Ministry for Digital, Business and Enterprise & European Partner, Head of the National Austrian Cluster Platform, Austria Peter Heydebreck, European Cluster Collaboration Platform, Project Expert, Germany Hélène-Diane Dage, Deputy Head of the Unit Clusters, Social Economy and Entrepreneurship, DG GROWTH, European Commission Konstantin Schneider, Deputy Head of the Baden-Wuerttemberg agency, Germany Round Table Discussion: Linas Eriksonas, Project Coordinator LITEK - Laser and Engineering Technology Cluster, Lithuania Michael Jäger, Head of Cluster Mechatronics at the Regional Agency of Tyrol, Austria Daniel Cosnita, President of the Romanian Cluster Association, Romania Jonas Bergholm, Business Developer Small and Medium-sized Companies at Region Skane, Sweden Moderator: Gerlinde Pöchhacker-Tröscher, P-IC Host 4: NCP wide.net Role of Centres of Excellence in regional innovative eco-systems Marta Barbas, STRONGMAR Project, Head of Funding Opportunities Office, INES TEC, Portugal Giorgios Chatzikostas, Head of Business Development Department, BioSense Institute, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Jean Sciare, Director of Energy, Environment, Water Research Centre (EEWRC) at The Cyprus Institute (CyI), Nicosia, Cyprus Magdalena Borzęcka, JUNG – Institute of Soil and Plant Cultivation, Poland Moderator: Katarzyna Walczyk-Matuszyk, Coordinator of the NCP_WIDE.NET project and Deputy Director of the NCP Poland Rapporteur: Matthias Woiwode von Gilardi, NCP Germany, Head of Unit in the DLR

17:00	Coffee & Networking

17:30	End of Conference Day 2

18:30	*Networking Dinner is open at Orangerie*

19:00	Networking Dinner for Delegates Venue: Orangerie at Congress Center Innsbruck - ground floor Unfortunately due to bad weather conditions it will not be possible to go up the mountai for safety reasons.