GRC Meeting Program

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May 14, Monday

Timing	Event	Venue
08:30 – 09:00	Registration for Side events	2^nd Floor Lobby
09:00 - 16:00	Side event:
09:00 – 12:15	Roundtable “Neighbors in Research”	Sapphire Hall
13:45 – 16:00	Introduction of research facilities	NRC “Kurchatov Institute”
09:00 – 14:30	Side event: GRC Gender Working Group Meeting	Crystal Hall 3

10:00 – 17:00	Registration for GRC meeting participants	2^nd Floor Lobby
10:30 – 12:00	Executive Support Group meeting	Charlotte Hall
14:00 – 16:00	Governing Board meeting	Sapphire Hall
16:30 – 17:45	GRC Regional meetings: — Asia&Pacific — America — Africa — Europe — MENA	Sapphire Hall Charlotte Hall Emerald Hall Crystal Hall Topaz Hall
18:00 – 18:30	Moderators of breakout groups meeting	Topaz Hall
18:30 – 20:00	Co-hosts Welcome reception	2^nd Floor Lobby

May 15, Tuesday

Timing	Event	Venue
8:30 – 9:00	Registration for GRC meeting participants	2^nd Floor Lobby
9:00 – 17:00	GRC Annual Meeting	Crystal Hall
9:00 – 9:45	Opening ceremony Chair: Vladislav Panchenko Board Chairman, Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) Welcome address: France Cordova Director, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA Jin Ho Seobr Acting President, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Russia’s Senior Officials Introduction of GRC HORCs	Crystal Hall
9:45 – 10:15	Break Presentation of RFBR published books exhibition Presentation of photo exhibition «Six years of GRC »	2^nd Floor Lobby
10:15 – 10:45	7^th GRC Annual Meeting roadmap: сonsultative process preceding the Meeting Mario Pinto GRC Government Board Chairman President, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada	Crystal Hall
10:45 – 12:30	Plenary session 1 Peer/Merit Review Co-Chairs Jin Ho Seo Acting President, National Research Foundation (NRF), Republic of Korea Vladislav Panchenko Board Chairman, Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) Moderator Molapo Qhobela Chief Executive officer, National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa Discussant Stan Gielen President, Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands Panel Jean-Pierre Adrien Bourguignon President, European Research Council (ERC) Sirimali Fernando Chairperson, National Science Foundation (NSF), Sri Lanka Alexander Gabibov RFBR Board Member; Director, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS, Russia Endorsement of the final paper «Statement of principles and approaches on Peer/Merit Review» «Background paper on the revision of Global Research Council Statement of principles and approaches on scientific merit review»	Crystal Hall
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13.30 – 17.00	Plenary Session 2. Science Diplomacy Co-Chairs: Vladislav Panchenko Board Chairman, Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) Jin Ho Seo Acting President, National Research Foundation (NRF), Republic of Korea	Crystal Hall
13:30 – 14:15	Key speaker Anatoly Torkunov Rector, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), Russia
14:15 – 15:30	Discussion in break-out groups:
	Group 1. Sharing a common understanding of Science Diplomacy Moderator: Prue Williams General Manager, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), New Zealand Rapporteur: Claudia Guerrero Director, National Secretariat of Science, technologies and innovations (SENACYT), Panama	Sapphire Hall
	Group 2. Expanding capacity to leverage the potential of Science Diplomacy Moderator: Alfred Sumani Executive Secretary, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Zambia Rapporteur: Rebecca Keiser Head of International Science and Engineering Department, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA	Charlotte Hall
	Group 3. Promotion the science of the Science Diplomacy Moderator: Ingrid Katrina Petersson Director General, Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS), Sweden Rapporteur: Dorothy Ngila Project Specialist, National Research Foundation (NRF ), South Africa	Emerald Hall
	Group 4. (for observers) National approaches to the Science Diplomacy Moderator: Alexander Choubaryan Director, RAS Institute of General History, Russia Rapporteur: Pierre-Bruno Ruffini University of Le Havre, France	Crystal Hall
15:30 – 15:45	Break
15:45 – 16:45	Plenary session on Science Diplomacy (to continue) Reporting out of group discussion (break-out groups’ moderators) Acknowledgement of the discussion paper “Science Diplomacy: the role of research councils and the Global Research Council”	Crystal Hall
16:45 – 17:00	Group photo
17:00 – 18:00	Free time
18:30 – 21:00	Conference dinner

May 16, Wednesday

Timing	Event	Venue
8:00 – 9:00	Breakfast for GRC Governing Board members	Sapphire Hall
9:00 – 13:00	Session 3. GRC business and future directions Chair: Mario Pinto GRC Government Board Chairman; President, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada	Crystal Hall
9:00 – 10:00	Special Guest presentation Yury Oganesyan Laboratory Head, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Russia Alexander Dynkin President, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations RAS (IMEMО), Russia
10:00 – 10:15	Report from the Gender Working Group
10:15 – 10:30	Report from roundtable «Neighbors in Research»
10:30 – 11:00	Break
11:00 – 11:45	GRC Governing Board report
12:15 – 12:30	A look ahead to 2019
12:30 – 12:45	Q&A
12:45 – 13:00	Closing remarks and аdjournment
13:00 – 13:30	Press conference for co-hosts of 2018 and 2019 Annual Meetings and Chairman of Governing Board	Sapphire Hall
13:00 – 14:00	Farewell lunch
14:00 – 15:00	Executive Support Group/International Steering Committee meeting	Sapphire Hall
15:00	Excursions (Optional)	Sapphire Hall

Annual Meeting, Moscow 14–16 May 2018