World Science Forum Budapest

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World Science Forum Budapest

• 8-10 November 2003

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World Science Forum - BudapestKnowledge and
Society

• In 2002 UNESCO designated the day of
• 10 November
• as World Science Day

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World Science Forum - BudapestKnowledge and
Society

• In 2003 the World Science Day
• will be uniquely celebrated
• in Hungary
• the first meeting of the series
• World Science Forum - Budapest
• will be organised
• on 8-10 November

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World Science Forum - Budapest

• under the Chief Patronage of Professor Ferenc
  Mádl, the President of the Republic of Hungary,
  and
• under the Patronage of Mr. Romano Prodi, the
  President of the European Commission

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World Science Forum - Budapest

• International patrons
• Mr. Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of
  UNESCO, and
• Professor Jane Lubchenko, President of the
  International Council for Science.

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World Science Forum - Budapest

• supported by the Government of Hungary
• having the full moral support of UNESCO and
  ICSU

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World Science Forum - Budapest

• with the participation of over 300 distinguished
  scientists and highly respected personalities
  from more than 100 countries
• and with a full coverage of the international
  media.

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Preparations

• The Chair of the Conference is Dr. E. Sylvester
  Vizi , the President of the Hungarian Academy of
  Sciences
• the Chair of the Organising Committee is Dr.
  Norbert Kroó, the Secretary General of the
  Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• the Executive Director of the Organising
  Committee is Dr. Balázs Gulyás of the Karolinska
  Institute, Stockholm.

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Main Objectives of the Conference
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Main Objective

• To discuss the novel challenges and roles of
  knowledge in the 21st Century

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Main Objective

• The conference will tackle six major themes
• Knowledge-based society
• Knowledge-based economy
• Knowledge and science
• Knowledge and quality of life
• Knowledge, environment and development
• Knowledge and information

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Plenary Speakers
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Professor Alexander Lámfalussy

• First President, European Monetary Institute.
  The father of the euro, one of the leading
  financial experts of the world, Chairman of the
  Wise Mens Committee of the European Union.

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Professor John Marburger III.

• Professor of physics, chief scientific advisor
  to the President of the United States the most
  recognised science policy-maker in the United
  States.

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Professor Goverdhan Mehta

• Chemist, Former President of the Indian Academy
  of Sciences, President Elect of the International
  Council for Science and the Co-President of the
  InterAcademy Council.

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Achilleas Mitsos

• Director General, Directorate General of Science,
  Research and Development (DG-XII), Commission of
  the European Union

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Professor William A. Wulf

• Professor of computer sciences, President of the
  Academy of Engineering, the National Academies,
  USA.

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Professor Lu Yongxiang

• Engineer. Deputy of the Peoples Congress of
  China, member of the Presidium of the Central
  Committee, President of the Chinese Academy of
  Sciences.

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Sessions of the Conference
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Knowledge-based society
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Viscount Etienne Davignon

• President of Société Générale, former EU
  Commissioner for industrial affairs of the Delors
  Commission, one of the most prominent financial
  investors in Europe.

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Professor Lourdes Arizpe

• Former Assistant Director-General of UNESCO, one
  of the leading sociologists in Mexico.

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Knowledge-based economy
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Professor Vernon Smith

• Nobel Prize-winner in Economics (2002). He
  received this award for his studies on the
  psychological background of decision-making in
  economics.

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Dr. Tero Ojanperä

• The Senior Vice-President of Nokia and head of
  the Nokia Research Center comes from Finland.

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Professor András Inotai

• Director of the Institute of World Economics of
  the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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Knowledge and science
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Professor Alain Pompidou

• Professor of medicine, a former Member of the
  European Parliament, Chairman of the French
  Bioethics Committee.

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Professor Masao Ito

• World-famous neuroscientist, who made
  fundamental discoveries in neurophysiology.
  Currently he is the most influential scientist
  and science-policy maker in Japan.

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Knowledge, environment and development
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Professor Mohamed El-Ashry

• Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the
  Global Environment Facility (GEF), Egypt and
  United States.

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Dr. Julia Marton-Lefevre

• Executive Director, LEAD (Leadership for the
  Environment and Development), United Kingdom.
  Former Director of ICSU.

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Information-based society and knowledge
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Professor Tamás Roska

• A distinguished representative of Information
  Technology will talk about new ways to design
  computers and utilise information in the 21st
  Century.

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Professor Peter Freeman

• The Assistant Director of the US National
  Science Foundation will cover the field of
  research on information and society in the 21st
  Century.

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Knowledge and quality of life
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Professor Hans Wigzell

• Rector of the Karolinska Institute, President of
  the Nobel Assembly, chief scientific advisor of
  the Swedish Government.

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Professor Craig Venter

• A revolutionary geneticist the first to map the
  human genetic code, the founder and owner of one
  of the most significant biotechnological
  companies of the world.

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Programme survey

• Day 1 8 November 2003
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 9 12 AM Opening and
• Plenary Sessions
• 14-18 PM Thematic Sessions

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Programme survey

• Day 2 9 November 2003
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 9 12 AM Plenary Sessions
• 14-18 PM Thematic Sessions

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Detailed programme

• Day 3 10 November 2003
• World Science Day
• Hungarian Parliament
• 9 11 AM Final Conclusions and Recommendatiosn
  for Mankind
• Presentation of the UNESCO Prizes year 2004
• 11.30 AP 13.00 PM Concluding Plenary Lectures

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Communicational background

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