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Final
program
1st European MBES Forum
Role of MBES in Europe
Room K
December 5th, Thursday, 10.30 - 17.30
(in conjunction with the 2nd EMBEC)
Objectives
The Forum is organised by the ProTem group responsible for the setting
up of a European Alliance in Medical and Biological Engineering
and Science, EAMBES (www.eambes.org). The objective of the forum
is to present and discuss the current European wide initiatives,
namely the creation of the European Research Area, the 6th Framework
Program and its new instruments, especially Networks of Excellence,
and the creation of the European Higher Education Area in relation
to the field represented by EAMBES. The final session of the Forum
discusses the current status of the creation of EAMBES.
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Time
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Topic
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Speaker
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Session
1: MBES and the European Research Area and the European
Higher Education Area I
Chairmen: Professors Joe Barbenel, Strathclyde University,
UK and Christian Roux, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications
de Bretagne, France
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10:30
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Welcome & Opening statements
by chairmen
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10:40
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Implementation
of the European Research Area
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Professor
Jane Grimson, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland |
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11:05
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Implementation
of the European Research Area through the instruments of
the 6th Framework Program
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Dr.
Olivier Le Dour, European Commission, Brussels |
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11:30
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EUREKA in ERA
- The complementarities
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Mr.
Philippe Loward, EUREKA National Project Co-ordinator, Bureau
for International Research and Technology Co-operation (BIT),
Austria |
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11:55
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Implementation
of the European Higher Education Area
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Prof.
Joachim Nagel, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany |
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12:20
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Closing
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MBES
and the European Research Area and the European Higher Education
Area II
Chairmen: Professors
Marcello Bracale, University of Naples, Italy and Ratko
Magjarevic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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13:30
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National MBES
related funding and focus activities
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Prof.
Jean-Louis Coatrieux, University of Rennes, Rennes, France |
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14:00
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Healthcare
technology - Industry viewpoint
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Mr.
Hannu Ahjopalo, Instrumentarium Corporation, Helsinki, Finland |
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14:30
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ERCIM
model as a model for collaboration
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Prof.
Stelios Orphanoudakis, FORTH Institute of Computer Science,
Herakleon, Greece |
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15:00
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Closing
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MBES
and the European Research Area and the European Higher Education
Area III
Chairmen: Professors
Jos van der Sloten, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
and Jan Wojcicki, Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical
Engineering, Poland
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15:30
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Examples of MBES European
research networks in formation
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BioNet
and the VRLAB initiative
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Dr.
Marco Viceconti, Laboratorio di Tecnologia Medica, Istituti
Ortopedici Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy |
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EHeart
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Dr.
Claudia Riedel, Karlsruhe University, Germany |
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Tissue
micro-diagnosis and imaging down to the cellular level:
an opportunity for future co-operation in the EU
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Dr.
Christian Depeursinge, BIO-E: Biomedical Institute of Imaging,
Optics and Engineering, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland |
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Biosignal
interpretation and modelling
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Professor
Pablo Laguna, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain |
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16:30
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Progress
report on the creation of the European Alliance on Medical
and Biological Engineering and Sciences
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Niilo
Saranummi, VTT Information Technology, Tampere, Finland |
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17:30
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Closing
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