Plenary sessions

The conference was introduced by :

• Comissioner Potocnik in charge of research at the European Commission (download text)
• and by Adrian Alsop, research director at ESRC. (download presentation)

They followed brief presentations made by :

• Luke Georghiou introducing the conference (download presentation)
• Nancy Rothwell and Alistair Ulph presenting the new University of Manchester
• and Philippe Larédo presenting the PRIME Network of Excellence (download text and slides )

The session concluded the conference. It was made of 3 parts :

• reports from the session (the reports can be found with the sessions, see page "Thematic Sessions")
• a presentation by the EC and the activity report from PRIME (download report and presentation)
• an introduction to the preparation of a PRIME position paper on FP7 (download text)

A further specific session was organised by the members of the Characterisation - Terttu Luukkonen, Maria Nedeva and Remi Barré - on the framework developed for monitoring the dynamics of NoEs (see presentation and reference document).