The HALRIC project management team cordially invites all project members and potential collaborators to the opening conference of the HALRIC project!
It will be an inspirational day covering the project and the project partners, discussions of how to work together and create synergies, examples for applying for pilot projects, and opportunities for networking. The day will end with dinner (participation optional).
Participants: This conference is for everyone who will be working on the HALRIC project at one of the partner organizations* (such as work package participants, finance officers, project staff, clinical or academic researchers wishing to participate in cross-border pilot projects, etc.), as well as researchers and representatives from companies or other organizations interested in collaborating with unique life science research infrastructures.
Date: 20 April 2023
Time: 9:30 – 17:30 (optional dinner 18:00 – 20:00)
Venue: Clarion Hotel Copenhagen Airport, Ellehammersvej 20, 2770 Kastrup (accessible from within the airport, train station, and metro station)
If you have signed up and need to change your plans, please also contact stb@mva.org to unregister.
Program:
| 9:30 | Arrival & registration, networking, light breakfast |
| 10.00 | WELCOME TO THE HALRIC PROJECT |
| Opening of the kick-off conference Kajsa M. Paulsson, HALRIC Project Director, Lund University |
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| Why collaborate across borders? Erik Johansson, Project Advisor, Interreg Öresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak (ÖKS) |
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| 10.15 | HALRIC project roles and activities – background and overview Kajsa M. Paulsson HALRIC Project Director, Lund University Stephan Bouman, HALRIC Deputy Project Director,Medicon Valley Alliance (MVA) |
| Project management & communication (WP1) Maria Sundh and Mette Bach Dyremose, HALRIC Management Team, MVA |
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| Cross Border Innovation & Research (WP2) Kajsa M. Paulsson, HALRIC Project Director, Lund University |
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| The Hanseatic Science Cloud (WP3) Anders Sjöström, Project Manager, Lund University |
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| Strengthening the regional life science eco-system (WP4) Klaus Von Lepel, Ministry for Science and Research, City of Hamburg Petter Hartman, CEO, Medicon Village Innovation |
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| 11.10 | HALRIC budget & guidelines Claus Højlund, CFO, Medicon Valley Alliance |
| Get to know your peers in the HALRIC partnership! Moderated by Kajsa M. Paulsson and Stephan Bouman |
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| 12.00 | LUNCH IN RESTAURANT HORIZON |
| 13.00 | INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER: HOW CULTURE SHAPES BEHAVIOR Meet Julien S. Bourrelle, Author and Lecturer on Nordic culture |
| CROSS-BORDER SYNERGIES | |
| 14.00 | Welcome on behalf of the HALRIC Lead Partner Viktor Öwall, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Lund University |
| How hospitals and companies can use research infrastructures Anja Schmidt-Christensen, Researcher, Lund University Derek Logan, Professor, Lund University Maria Garcia Alai, Head of Facility, EMBL |
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| Cross-border pilot projects and the first call for proposals (WP2) Kajsa M. Paulsson, HALRIC Project Director, Lund University |
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| 15.10 | Bring your coffee & cake to meet your next collaboration partners in HALRIC |
| 15.50 | Cross-border synergies with the Hanseatic Science Cloud (WP 3) Anders Sjöström, Project Manager, Lund University |
| Cross-border collaborations in the life science ecosystems (WP 4) Expert discussion with: Pia Kinhult, Head of Host States Relations, ESS Petter Hartman, CEO, Medicon Village Innovation Anette Steenberg, CEO, Medicon Valley Alliance Klaus Von Lepel, Ministry for Science and Research, City of Hamburg |
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| 15.50 | Parallel session: Finance and procedures For financial officers & administrators in HALRIC Claus Højlund, CFO, Medicon Valley Alliance |
| 16.45 | Joint discussions & wrap-up |
| 17.15 | End of program |
| 18.00 | Dinner (optional and only with pre-registration) |
Transportation and accommodation:
Please arrange and book any HALRIC-related travel and accommodation yourself. All HALRIC partner organizations have a travel overhead budget (calculated as 6% on top of the staff costs covered by the project), meaning that you have sufficient funds for all the necessary traveling in the project period. No documentation of your travel or accommodation is needed towards Interreg, so you only need to follow your own organization’s travel guidelines.
Please keep sustainability in mind when traveling, and let us know when you have made a greener choice for a HALRIC-related trip, so we can add that to the project’s sustainability goals!
Hotel suggestions (here is a little map overview):
- Clarion Hotel Copenhagen Airport (see below for 10% discount) – the conference hotel itself
- Comfort Hotel Copenhagen Airport (see below for 10% discount) – right next to the conference hotel
- Scandic CPH Strandpark – a 15 min walk from the conference
- Best Western Plus Airport Hotel Copenhagen – a 15 min walk from the conference, or 1 stop by metro
Discount: with the Clarion and Comfort hotels, you can get a 10% discount on their best daily rate. To book rooms with that discount, please contact meetings.cph@choice.dk and mention that you are attending the HALRIC event on the 20th of April. There is no special agreement with the other two hotels, but you are encouraged to look up their room prices.
* The partner organizations of the Hanseatic Life Science Research Infrastructure Consortium (HALRIC):
- Sweden: Lund University (lead partner), MAX IV, ESS European Spallation Source, Malmö University, Skåne University Hospital, Region Skåne, Medicon Village Innovation
- Denmark: University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark, Aarhus University, University of Southern Denmark, Rigshospitalet/Region Hovedstaden, Medicon Valley Alliance (project management)
- Germany: University of Hamburg, DESY, European XFEL, EMBL, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, City of Hamburg, Life Science Nord
- Norway: University of Oslo
Medicon Valley Alliance handles project- and communication-related tasks on behalf of the HALRIC partnership, including event and conference management. Please add *@mva.org as a safe sender in your email program, so emails and confirmations do not go to your spam folder.
The HALRIC project is co-funded by the EU through Interreg Öresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak.
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