Programme
09:30 Registration
10:00 Opening / Welcome Remarks│ Moderator: Ellenor Devine, VR
Jung-Hye Roe (NRF, President)
Sven Stafström (VR, Director General)
10:20 Special Speech I: Results and Future of Two Countries' R&D
Eva Åkesson (Uppsala University, Vice-Chancellor)
Jin Tack Chung (Korea University, President)
11:00 Keynote speaker
Lars Hultman, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)
The Virtues of External Funding Agencies; Promoting Scientific Renewal and Innovation Output.
11:30 Group Photo
11:40 Lunch
Scientific program │ Moderator: Magnus Friberg, VR
13:10 Session 1 │ Bio & Life Sciences
Peter Swoboda, Karolinska Institutet
From worm nerve cells to human brain conditions (and back)
Junho Lee, Seoul National University
[TBD]
14:10 Session 2 │ Material Sciences
Jonas Ringsberg, Chalmers University of Technology
The Importance of Research within Materials Science for Sustainable Limit State Design of Large Structures - Numerical Modelling, Analyses and Experiments.
Taeghwan Hyeon, Seoul National University
[TBD]
15:10 Coffee break
15:40 Session 3 │ Information and Communications Technology
[TBD]
17:00 Summary, wrap-up and Mingle
18:00 Dinner at Piperska Muren, hosted by NRF President.