25 September 2007
Hotel Echo, Bratislava, Slovakia

Programme

9.30: Registration

Morning Session

10.00: Welcome Addresses
- Representative of Bratislava Self-Governing Region
- Ľubomír Falťan (Slovak Academy of Sciences)

10.30: Introduction to the EURO-COOP project
- Ronald J. Pohoryles, Project Co-ordinator, ICCR

10.45: Trends in science and technology up to 2015, including Structural Funds support” (Marta Cimbáková, Ministry of Education of SR)

11.00: Coffee Break

11.30: Innovation support in the Operational Programme Bratislava Region for the programming period 2007-2013, Mariana Streďanská, Ministry of Construction and Regional Development of SR)

11.45: Universities within the knowledge triangle (Robert Redhammer, Slovak University of Technology)

12.00: Updating RIS BSK in term of the use of Structural Funds” (Štefan Vrátny, BIC Bratislava)

12.15: Discussion

13.00: Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

14.30: Bratislava region - Unlocking Innovation Potential” (Vladimír Baláž, Tatiana Kluvánková – Oravská, Edita Nemcová, Institute for Forecasting SAS)

15.00: Comments on linkages between Operational Programmes and regional innovation strategies by each Euro-coop partner

15.30: Coffee Break

16.00: Panel Discussion about outcomes of the workshop

16.30: Concluding Remarks

17.00: End of the workshop