Papers/Material from Sessions at ESOF2004

Available papers/material
Below you find the Papers/Materials from plenary lectures, sessions and the career programme held at ESOF2004, that has been sent to us ((deadline for sending these were set to 17 September, at latest 12.00 hrs CET):

Plenary Lectures/Sessions

Beyond global warming: Where on Earth are we going?
Organiser: Susannah Eliott, IGBP
Speakers: Will Steffen, John Schellnhuber, Stefan Rahmstorf, Paul Crutzen, Katherine Richardson, Uno Svedin
Held: 2004-08-26 at 09:30-12:30

Visit the ICSU web site, for material/papers!

Can chemistry survive in Europe?
Organisers: Frank Agterberg, Cefic, on behalf of AllChemE, Belgium and Evelyn McEwan
Speakers: Jon McCleverty, Pietro Tundo, Marcos Gomez, Kristy Mac Donald, Frank Agterberg and Istvan Horvath
Held: 2004-08-25 at 14:45-17:45

PDF file, Jon McCleverty
PDF file, Pietro Tundo
PDF file, Marcos Gomez
PDF file, Frank Agterberg
PDF file, Kristy Mac Donald
PDF file, Istvan Horvath

Can Europe adapt to climate change?
Organisers: Sheila Anderson, Research Councils UK and Asher Minns
Speakers: David Stainforth, Franziska Matthies, Richard Klein and Jonathan Köhler
Held: 2004-08-28 at 09:30-12:30

PDF-file, summary/biographies

Can European citizens influence the agenda for neuroscience?
Organiser: Tinne Vandensande, King Baudouin Foundation, on behalf of the Consortium of 11 partner organisations from nine European countries, Belgium
Speakers: Simon Joss, Rinie van Est, Tinne Vandensande and Gerrit Rauws
Held: 2004-08-25 at 14:45-16:15

PPS-presentation, Gerrit Rauws, Simon Joss, Rinie van Est and Tinne Vandensande
Word document, Gerrit Rauws, Simon Joss, Rinie van Est and Tinne Vandensande
Word document (biographies

Climate and risk management: are we ignoring the obvious?
Organiser: John Aviott, IIASA
Speakers: Philip Campbell, Bert Bolin, Michael Obersteiner, Kenneth Möllersten, Christian Azar
Held: 2004-08-27 at 14:45-16:15 at Norra Latin Musiksalen

PPT-presentation, Kenneth Möllersten

Developing a strategy for European research funding agencies
Organiser: Regis Cabral, A&U2iN, Analys och Utredningsuppdrag i Norr, Sweden
Speakers/Discussants: Imre Hronszky, Regis Cabral, Rosario Ramos, Nuri Süha Bayindir and Luísa Henriques
Held: 2004-08-27 at 09:30-12:30

PPT-presentation, Regis Cabral
PPT-presentation 2, Regis Cabral
PPT-presentation, Rosario Ramos
PPT-presentation, Nuri Süha Bayindir
PPT-presentation, Luísa Henriques

Does science help to run the country?
Organisers: Kjell Andersson, Karita Research, Sweden, Albert Teich, AAAS Washington DC, USA and David Cope,UK Houses of Parliament Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology London, UK
Speakers: Hans Bergström, Majléne Westerlund Panke, David Cope, Albert Teich and Britt-Marie Drottz Sjöberg
Held: 2004-08-25 at 14:45-17:45

PPT presentation, David Cope
For more information, please visit the EPTA web site!

European science policy in a global context
Organiser: Frédéric Sgard, OECD Global Science Forum and ICSU
Speakers: Robert-Jan Smits, Judy Franz, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Khotso Mokhele, Carlo Heip, Ian Corbett
Held: 2004-08-28 at 09:30-12:30

PPT-presentation, Intro - Frédéric Sgard
PPT-presentation, Robert-Jan Smits
PPT-presentation, Judy Franz
Word document, Judy Franz
PPT-presentation, Kiyoshi Kurokawa
PPT-presentation, Khotso Mokhele
PPT-presentation, Carlo Heip
PPT-presentation, Ian Corbett

Visit the ICSU web site, for more material/papers!

From quarks to galaxies
Organisers: Michael Kobel, Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Germany, Phil Burrows (London), Giorgio Chiarelli (Pisa), and François le Diberder (Paris) as ELCSG outreach subcommittee coordinators on behalf of the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA), Germany, European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) Brian Foster (Bristol, Chair) and European Particle-Physics Outreach Group (EPOG) Erik Johansson (Stockholm, Chair)
Speakers: Gerard 't Hooft, Licia Verde, Ugo Amaldi, Ulf Danielsson and Albrecht Wagner
Held: 2004-08-27 at 14:45-17:45

Visit the Teilchenphysik web site, for material/papers!
For further International Linear Collider Information, please visit the Intercations web site.

Giving substance to sustainable development
Organiser: Annika Nilsson, Department of Water and Environmental Studies
Linköping University, Sweden and Thomas Rosswal, ICSU
Speakers:Jill Jäger, Roger Kasperson, Carl Folke, Susan Owens, Björn-Ola Linnér and Thomas Rosswall
Held: 2004-08-26 at 14:45-17:45

Visit the ICSU web site, for material/papers!

It's not easy being green - Prospects and Perspectives for Green Technology in Asia-Europe
Organiser: Bertrand Fort, Director for Intellectual Exchange, Asia-Europe Foundation.
Speakers: Emil Salim, Michael Grubb, Frank Convery, Morihiro Kurushima, Jackrit Watanatada, Arjin B. J. Van As, Philippe Bergeron (European rapporteur)
Held: 2004-08-28 at 14:45-17:45

PDF file, Michael Grubb
PDF file, Frank Convery
PDF file, Arjin B. J. Van As

Lost in translation: media, science and politics
Organiser: Stephan Herrera, Acumen Journal of Life Sciences, The Economist, USA and Laura Sheahan
Speakers: Stephan Herrera, Anna Gergely, Ortwin Renn, Anders Hägerstrand and Mark Welland
Held: 2004-08-26 at 09:30-12:30

PPT-presentation, Ortwin Renn

Making links, building bridges: Science matters in South Eastern Europe
Organiser: Howard Moore, UNESCO-Roste
Speakers: Milica Uvalic, Magda Stavinschi, Miroslav Trajanovic, Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska and Nada Svob-Dokic
Held: 2004-08-26 at 09:30-12:30

Visit the UNESCO-Roste web site, for material/papers!

Molecules as Arts?
Organiser: Gabor Naray-Szabo, Federation of European Chemical Societies, Hungary
Speakers: Gabor Naray-Szabo, Cristina De Matteis, Samar K. Das, Paul Mezey, Gerhard Pohl and Béla Vizi
Held: 2004-08-25 at 14:45-16:15

Word document, Gabor Naray-Szabo
PDF file, Gerhard Pohl

Nanotechnology: applications and implications
Organiser: Wolfgang Heckl, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany
Speakers: Mark Welland, Andrew Moore, Wolf M. Heckl and Douglas Parr
Held: 2004-08-26 at 14:45-17:45

PPT-presentation, Andrew Moore

Promoting growth in Europe
Organiser/Speaker: André Sapir, Professor of Economics, ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Economic Adviser, Group of Policy Advisers to the President, European Commission, Executive President Group of Economic Analysis, European Commission, Belgium
Held: 2004-08-27 at 08:15-09:15

PPT-presentation, André Sapir

Psychopathology of organisations
Organisers: Joachim Hasebrook, International School of New Media (ISNM) at University of Lübeckand Hochschule für Bankwirtschaft, Frankfurt/Main, Germany and Stefan Hofmann, Boston University, USA
Speakers: Leif Edvinsson, Sara Cox, Paul Babiak, Erich Barthel, Joachim Hasebrook and Stefan G. Hofmann
Held: 2004-08-25 at 14:45-17:45

PDF-file, Joachim Hasebrook and Stefan Hofmann
PDF-file 2, Joachim Hasebrook and Stefan Hofmann

Public participation in risk management
Organisers: Kjell Andersson, Karita Research, Sweden, Magnus Westerlind and Björn Hedberg
Speakers: Sören Wibe, Ortwin Renn, Kjell Andersson, Björn Hedberg and Eskil Ullberg
Held: 2004-08-27 at 09:30-12:30

PPT-presentation, Björn Hedberg
PPT-presentation, Eskil Ullberg
PPT-presentation, Ortwin Renn
PPT-presenation, Kjell Andersson

Science and the media: how does science become headline news?
Organisers: Ginger Pinholster, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA, Fiona Fox and Catherine O'Malley
Speakers: David Vaughan, Dawn Duncan, Malen Elvira de Ruiz, Ginger Pinholster, Nils Bruzelius and Gordon Woods
Held: 2004-08-28 at 14:45-17:45

Visit the AAAS web site, for material/papers!

Should Europe explore the planets?
Organiser: Piero Messina, European Space Agency (ESA), France
Speakers: Daniel Sacotte, Piero Messina, Gerhard Kminek
Held: 2004-08-28 at 14:45-17:45

PPT-presentation, Piero Messina

Spreading the word: who profits from scientific publishing?
Organiser: Françoise Praderie, Observatoire de Paris and Siméon Anguelov, UNESCO Consultant, France
Speakers: Wilhelm Krull, Hans Dieter Daniel, Roger Elliott, Pierre Baruch, Sally Morris, Hélène Bosc and Frank Gannon
Held: 2004-08-26 at 14:45-18:15

PDF-file (cover), summary and bios
PDF-file (content), summary and bios

The artificial human: fear, fiction and fact
Organiser: Horst A. Glaser, University of Pisa, Deptartment of Linguistics, Italy and Sabine Rossbach, University of the Saarland Institute for Comparative Literature, Saarbrücken, Germany
Speakers: Horst A. Glaser, Jochen Eulert, Peter Gendolla, Christoph Klein, Alois Knoll, Eberhard Passarge and Sabine Rossbach
2004-08-28 at 09:30-11:00

PDF-file, Horst A. Glaser
PDF-file, Sabine Rossbach

The open access revolution
Organisers: Helen Doyle, Public Library of Science, USA and Jan Velterop, BioMed Central Ltd Current Science Group London, UK
Speakers: Helen Doyle, Jan Velterop, Richard Durbin, Barend Mons, Luisa Dillner, Robert Terry and David Prosser
Held: 2004-08-25 at 14:45-17:45

PDF-file (abstract), Helen Doyle
PPT-presentation, Helen Doyle
PPT-presentation, Jan Velterop
PPT-presentation, Richard Durbin
PPT-presentation, Barend Mons
PPT-presentation, Luisa Dillner
PPT-presentation, Robert Terry
PPT-presentation, David Prosser

The overlooked evolutionary dimension of modern fisheries
Organisers: Ulf Dieckmann, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Austria and Mikko Heino, Institute of Marine Research Bergen, Norway
Speakers: Ulf Dieckmann, Mikko Heino, Adriaan Rijnsdorp, David Conover, David Reznick and Richard Law

PDF-file, summary/biographies
PPT-presentation, Ulf Dieckmann
PPT-presentation, Mikko Heino
PPT-presentation, Adriaan Rijnsdorp
PPT-presentation, David Conover
PPT-presentation, David Reznick

The social responsibility of scientific institutions
Organisers: Lydie Koch Miramond, Scientific Advisor DSM, French Atomic Energy Commission; Convenor: Euroscience Working Group on Ethics in Science
France and Kathinka Evers
Speakers: Barbara Rhode, Margaret A. Somerville and Gerard Toulouse
Held: 2004-08-26 at 16:15-17:45

PDF File, Summary

Universal language or polyglot discourse?
Organiser: Marion Steinicke, IDK
Speakers: Roland Pochet, Jens Rometsch, Lodewijk Arntzen, Heinz Georg Held, Pit Kapetanovic and Birger Bergh
Held: 2004-08-26 at 16:15-17:45

PDF-file, Birger Bergh
PDF-file, Heinz Georg Held
Word document, Pit Kapetanovic
PPT-presentation, Roland Pochet
Word document, Roland Pochet
PDF-file, Jens Rometsch

Universities between public values and commercialisation
Organiser: Sandra Bitusikova, EUA
Speakers: Eric Froment, David Andrew Phoenix, Lea Brunner, Lesley Wilson
Held: 2004-08-26 at 14:45-16:15 at Norra Latin Room 361

PPT-presentation nr 1, Lesley Wilson
PPT-presentation nr 2, Lesley Wilson
PPT-presentation, David Andrew Phoenix

Where are the women in science?
Organiser: Nelli Didenko, Nelli Didenko, ES Local Section in Russia, Marcelle Rey-Campagnolle, Renata Vitman
Speakers: Judy Franz, Marcia Barbosa, Iryna Vavilova, Renata Vitman, Irina Eliseeva and Nina Sartori
Held: 2004-08-27 at 09:30-12:30

PDF-file, Judy Franz
PPT presentation, Nina Sartori

ESOF2004 Career Programme

Careers Workshop: A European employment market for researchers: challenges and opportunities Coordinators:Dagmar M. Meyer, MCFA Chair, Germany and Magda Lola, Euroscience & MCFA
Speakers/Discussants: Sieglinde Gruber, Jerzy Langer, Tom Casey, Sami Mahroum, Alexandra Oltean
Held: 2004-08-28 at 09:30-11:00

PDF-file, Tom Casey
PDF-file, Sieglinde Gruber
PDF-file, Jerzy Langer
PPS-presentation, Jerzy Langer
PDF-file, Abstract and Biographies
PPT-presentation, Sieglinde Gruber

Careers Workshop: “Family life" and "research career" - a contradiction in terms?
Coordinators: Dagmar M. Meyer, MCFA Chair and Maresi Nerad
Speakers/Discussants: Louise Ackers, Ragnhild Sohlberg, Bryony Gill, Francesco Pavani and Christine Heller del Riego
Held: Date: 2004-08-28 at 14:45-16:15

PDF-file, Abstract and Biographies

Careers Workshop: From slaves to masters - the long and winding road to independence
Coordinators: Toni Gabaldon, Eurodoc, Coordinator of Eurodoc's Mobility workgroup and Janet Metcalfe, Euroscience & MCFA
Speakers/Discussants: Martin Andler, Toni Gabaldon, Mihaela Gheorghiu, Ma Li
Held: 2004-08-28 at 09:30-11:00

PDF-file, Toni Gabaldon

Careers Workshop: Intersectoral mobility - a one-way street? Myths and reality
Coordinators: Dagmar M. Meyer, MCFA Chair and Marie-Gabrielle Schweighofer, Director of the Association Bernard Gregory
Speakers/Discussants: Jens Degett, Frank Heemskerk, Marie-Gabrielle Schweighofer, Ivan Montanari, Sanin Hasibovic
Held: 2004-08-28 at 14:45-16:15

PDF-file, Frank Heemskerk
PPT-presentation, Marie-Gabrielle Schweighofer
PDF-file, Abstract and Biographies

Careers Workshop: The role of mentoring and networking for the development of a scientific career
Coordinators: Marta Maczel, Interim President, World Academy of Young Scientists and Seema Sharma, European Program Director, Science's NextWave
Speakers/Discussants: Frank Gannon, Dick Van Vlooten, Marie Wahren-Herlenius, Lívia Mészáros, Marie-Claude Roland
Held: 2004-08-28 at 11:00-12:30

PPT-presentation, Dick Van Vlooten

Careers Workshop: Trends in European career systems - how much flexibility do we need, how much insecurity can we accept?
Coordinators: Magda Lola, MCFA Administrative Board, Co-ordinator of the MCFA Science Policy Panel and Dagmar M. Meyer, Euroscience & MCFA
Speakers/Discussants: Juan de la Figuera, Christoph Bargholtz, Patricia Arsene, Magda Lola, Andrej Mirossay
Held: 2004-08-28 at 11:00-12:30

PDF-file, Juan de la Figuera
PPT-presentation, Patricia Arsene
PDF-file, Abstract and Biographies

Mobility Symposium -Mobility beyond Europe: Mobility seen in a global context
Coordinators: Fiona Wood, ARMS - Australasian Research Management Society and Dagmar Meyer, Euroscience & MCFA
Speakers/Discussants: Fiona Wood, Sami Mahroum, Ma Li, Mihail Gabriel Chelu and Sieglinde Gruber

PDF-file, Abract and Biographies

Mobility Symposium - Return and Reintegration of Mobile Researchers
Coordinators: Bryony Gill, Centre for the Study of Law and Policy in Europe, Leeds University, UK and Jaroslav Mysiak, MCFA Administative Board
Speakers/Discussants:Bryony Gill, Francesco Pavani, Nikolina Sretenova, Juan de la Figuera, Louise Ackers
Held: 2004-08-27 at 16:15-17:45

PPT-presentation, Nikolina Sretenova
PPT-presentation, Bryony Gill

Mobility Symposium: The Special Situation of Young Researchers in Central and Eastern Europe
Coordinators: Piotr Swiatek, ESF Cost Office Brussels and Snezana Krstic, Euroscience & MCFA
Speakers/Discussants: Crina Cismas, Marie-Claude Roland, Irena Kuzmanoska, Jerzy Langer and Christina Vidinova
Held: 2004-08-27 at 11:00-12:30

PPT-presentation, Crina Cismas