Jonge wetenschappers van over de hele wereld komen samen in Warschau (en)
What makes a young person want to become a scientist? How do you attract more young talent to science? What will be the role of researchers in coping with the momentous problems confronting Europe? And what is the most effective and modern way of talking about scientific discoveries?
Over a dozen scholarly sessions and discussion panels will dissect the economic crisis, food security, biodiversity, effective use of the natural resources and climate change.
The Symposium "Science: Passion, Mission, Commitment" at the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw on 25-27 September will showcase one of the EU's flagship scientific exchange programmes known as the "Marie Curie Actions" For the past fifteen years the programme has supported international exchanges of researchers and their training at every stage of their scientific careers. Since 1996 it has enabled some 50 thousand leading young scientists from 127 countries to conduct research and obtain training at scientific institutions, universities and corporations in Europe and other continents.
The keynote event of the conference will be a session titled "Towards the Nobel Prize", with the participation of Professor Michael Sohlman of the Nobel Foundation. In a conversation with Wojciech Mikoluszko, Prof. Sohlman will reveal little-known facts about the selection of future Nobel Prize winners and will explain how the award stimulates the promotion of revolutionary discoveries.
The special guests of the Symposium are the EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism, Sport, Media and Youth, Androulla Vassiliou i, and the President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek i.
The organization of the conference in Warsaw, the birth place of Maria Sklodowska-Curie, was suggested to the European Commission in early 2010 - as a key event of the Polish Presidency - by the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education, Professor Barbara Kudrycka.
President Bronislaw Komorowski has assumed the honorary patronage of the conference. Its organizers are the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the European Commission and the National Contact Point for EU Research Programmes.
More information and details of the programme on: www.mariecurie2011.pl.
Magdalena Kula
MSHE Presidency Spokesperson