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Programme

  • Day 1 - 19 April
  • Day 2 - 20 April
  • Day 3 - 21 April
  • Day 4 - 22 April

Day 3 - 21 April

Venue: The Marriott

9:00
Team meeting - Reporting so far, preparation Day two
9:30
The European Year of Creativity and Innovation
Odile Quintin, European Commission Director General for Education, Training, Culture and Youth
10:15
Coffee break
10:30
Statements/ Presentations by EYCI Ambassadors:
Moderator: Karel Bartak, Head of Unit Communication and exploitation of results, European Commission, DG for Education and Culture

Speakers include:

  • Eric Spiekermann, Professor and typography designer
  • Damini Kumar, Designer and inventor
  • Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Professor and researcher on innovation
  • Karlheinz Brandenburg, Professor and researcher on information and communication technology
12:00
Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems
Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Professor at Aalborg University, researcher on innovation
EYCI Ambassador
13:00
Lunch buffet / Time for reporting/interviewing/ producing
14:00 Meeting the EIT Board Members
Prof. Giovanni Colombo and Dr. Anders Flodström, Board's Executive Committee
15:15 Coffee break / Time for reporting and interviewing
15:30 The Innovation Journalism Concept and the state of the global Innovation Journalism Intitiative
David Nordfors, Director of the VINNOVA Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University
16:00
Panel discussion
Moderator: David Nordfors
Innovation journalism initiatives

  • Violeta Bulc, Vibacom
  • Eric Karstens, European Journalism Centre
  • Wilfred Runde, Deutsche Welle
  • Turo Uskali, University of Jyväskylä
16:45 Time for reporting/ interviewing/production
20:00
Dinner at Bonsoir Clara

 


The conference is organised by the European Journalism Centre, in cooperation with the European Commission’s DG Education and Culture.