Network meeting for Swedish Research Council’s centres of excellence

Tuesday 3 June

12.00 Lunch

Universitetshuset (the University Building), Biskopsgatan 3, Uppsala

13.00 Welcome

• Mattias Marklund, former secretary general fo Natural Engineering Sciences, Swedish Research Council
  
• Gabriele Messori, director Climes, Uppsala University
• Anders Bjers, moderator, Swedish Research Council

Excellence initiatives

Katarina Bjelke, Director General, Swedish Research Council

13.15 Our strategies for building a strong research environment

Ove Nisson, Professor and Director of Umeå Plant Science Center

14.15 Networking themes:

1. Organisational structures. Room VIII. Moderator: Sebastian Westenhoff, professor at Department of Chemistry, Uppsala University
2. Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. Lecture hall IX. Moderator: John Ljungkvist, researcher at Department of Archaeology and Ancient History and Conservation, Uppsala University
3. Roundtable discussion about administrative center coordination - experiences and insights. Room XI. Moderator: Sakıp Murat Yalçın project coordinator climes, Uppsala University

16.00 Impact Beyound Academia

• Anna Maria Fleetwood, external relations advisor, Swedish Research Council
• Tove Fall, professor in molecular epidemiology, Uppsala University
• Josepine Fernow, centre coordinator, communications strategist and project manager at the Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University
  

18.30 Dinner

Wednesday 4 juni

9.00 'Conditions that enter-seeke one another': Interdisciplinarity, the Humanities, and the Public Good

Wes Williams, professor at the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford

10.30 Presentations of 5 centres

• Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History
• Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary (CAPIm)
• Commonalities in biomembrane and biomolecular interactions (COMMONS)
• Center for modeling adaptive mechanisms in living systems under stress (UmU-IceLab)
• Swedish centre for impacts of climate extremes (Climes)

11.45 Conclusions and outlook

• Anders Bjers and Lucas Pettersson, head of the Department of Research Funding, Swedish Research Council.

12.30 Lunch