Programme booklet LERU’s 10th Anniversary Conference

European Research Universities: Guide and Engine for Europe 2050

Barcelona, 9-10 May 2012

Welcome

Dear participant,

The League of European Research Universities (LERU) and the Universitat de Barce- lona welcome you to LERU’s 10th Anniversary Conference.

The conference, entitled “European Research Universities – Guide and Engine for Europe 2050”, provides a unique forum for the leaders of some of Europe’s leading research universities to exchange views with their counterparts from outside Europe and with high level representatives from the government and business sectors.

We will focus on the present and future role of European research universities, rela- ting it, in particular, to the EU research and innovation policy of the coming years. A comparison will be made with the situation in other parts of the world, including the US, Australia, and China, looking at topics such as frontier research and innovation, research assessment, management, funding, training and careers, mobility and the nexus between teaching/learning and research.

The leaders of LERU universities will share their views regarding the future of research universities in Europe and formulate proposals for how European research universi- ties should evolve in order to remain a guide and engine for Europe 2050. Comments on those proposals will be voiced by representatives from the EU institutions, the business world, and LERU’s network counterparts such as the AAU, Go8 and C9.

This two day event is designed to think forward and discuss the research university of the future. We will be featuring discussions with university leaders, entrepreneurs and policymakers and there is plenty of time in the programme to network.

Finally, we would like to thank the Universitat de Barcelona for hosting and suppor- ting this conference.

For the next decade, LERU intends to keep pushing the frontiers of innovative re- search!

Prof. Kurt Deketelaere Secretary-General LERU The League of European Research Universities

The League of European Research Universities (LERU) is an association of twenty- one leading research-intensive universities that share the values of high-quality teaching within an environment of internationally competitive research. Founded in 2002, LERU advocates education through an awareness of the frontiers of human un- derstanding; the creation of new knowledge through basic research, which is the ul- timate source of innovation in society; and the promotion of research across a broad front in partnership with industry and society at large.

The purpose of the League is to advocate these values, to influence policy in Europe and to develop best practice through mutual exchange of experience. LERU regularly publishes a variety of papers and reports which make high-level policy statements, provide in-depth analyses and make concrete recommendations for policymakers, universities, researchers and other stakeholders.

The LERU universities are: Universiteit van Amsterdam / Universitat de Barcelona / / Uni- versity of Edinburgh / Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg / Université de Genève / Uni- versität Heidelberg / Helsingin yliopisto () / Universiteit Leiden / KU Leuven / / University College London / Lunds univer- sitet / Università degli Studi di Milano / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München / / Université Pierre et Marie Curie / Université Paris-Sud 11 / Université de / Universiteit Utrecht / Universität Zürich

Programme LERU’s 10th Anniversary Conference

Wednesday 9 May 2012 12.00-13.15: Reflections from an EU perspective Paranimf 17.00: Arrival and registration of participants Chair: Prof. Kurt Deketelaere, Secretary-General of LERU Hall Mr. Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission 18.00: Opening session Prof. Helga Nowotny, President, European Research Council Gardens Mr. Brian Ager, Secretary-General, European Roundtable of Industrialists Prof. Dídac Ramírez i Sarrió, Rector of the Universitat de Barcelona Mrs. Lesley Wilson, Secretary-General, European University Association Prof. Bernd Huber, Chairman of LERU and President of LMU München 13.15-14.30: Lunch Mr. Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission Paranimf Corridor Prof. Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Adviser to President Barroso, European Commission 14.30-15.15: Plenary Address “The research university of the future”, Prof. Douwe Breimer, former Rector Magnificus of the Universiteit Leiden Prof. Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-, University of Cambridge 19.00: Welcome reception, buffet and music Paranimf Gardens 15.15-16.15: Comments from an EU perspective Paranimf Thursday 10 May 2012 Chair: Prof. Alain Beretz, President of the Université de Strasbourg, Member of the LERU Board of Directors 08.00-09.00: Registration Mr. Robert-Jan Smits Rectorate Hall Prof. Helga Nowotny 09.00-10.00: Welcome and introductory remarks Mr. Brian Ager Paranimf Mrs. Lesley Wilson Prof. Dídac Ramírez i Sarrió, Rector of the Universitat de Barcelona 16.15-16.45: Coffee break Prof. Bernd Huber, Chairman of LERU and President of LMU München Paranimf Corridor Prof. Amparo Camarero Olivas, Spain’s General Secretary for Universities Prof. Andreu Mas-Colell, Catalan Minister for Economy and Knowledge 16.45-17.30: Global Panel Debate Prof. Carmen Vela, Spanish State Secretary for Research, Development and Innovation Paranimf Chair: Prof. Malcolm Grant 10.00-11.30: Research universities in 2012 – A global perspective Paranimf Prof. Bernd Huber Chair: Prof. Jordi Alberch, Vice-Rector Research, Universitat de Barcelonaw Dr. John C. Vaughn Prof. Ed Byrne Europe: Prof. Malcolm Grant, President and Provost of University College Prof. Yang Wei London, Member of the LERU Board of Directors United States: Dr. John C. Vaughn, Executive Vice-President of the Association of 17.30-17.45: Conclusions, Prof. Bernd Huber American Universities (AAU) Paranimf Australia: Prof. Edward Byrne, Vice-Chancellor of Monash University, 18.00-18.30: Piano Concerto Deputy Chair of the Group of Eight (Go8) Paranimf China: Prof. Yang Wei, President of Zhejiang University, 18.30-20.00: Reception Chairman of the C9 League Paranimf Corridor 11.30-12.00: Coffee break Paranimf Corridor Speakers LERU’s 10th Anniversary Conference 9

Prof. Dídac Ramírez i Sarrió Prof. Douwe Breimer Rector of the Universitat de Barcelona Former Rector Magnificus of the Universiteit Leiden

Prof. Dídac Ramírez i Sarrió (Barcelona, 1946) holds two Ph.D. degrees from Prof. Douwe D. Breimer was Rector Magnificus of from UB, one in Economics and Business and one in Philosophy and Education 2001 till 2007 and also President from 2005 till 2007. He was one of the foun- Sciences. He has been the Rector of the Universitat de Barcelona since 2008 ders of LERU in 2002 and a member of its Board of Directors from July 2003 and a permanent member of the Royal Academy of Economic and Financial until February 2007. Since 1975 he is Professor of Pharmacology at Leiden Sciences since 2002. He was previously Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Economic University; he received several scientific distinctions for his scientific re- and Business Sciences of UB (1984-1989); Vice-Rector for Economics and search among which are honorary doctorates from Universities of Gent, Up- Administration at UB (1990-1994); UB delegate at the University School of psala, Budapest, Pamplona, London, Tokyo and Montreal. He is a member Hotel Management and Tourism (1995-1999); Treasurer of the Futbol Club of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, of the Academia Europaea Barcelona (2003); President of the Catalan Society of Philosophy (a branch and foreign associate member of the Institute of Medicine of the National of the Institute of Catalan Studies, 2001-2007); Director of the Department Academy of Sciences USA. He served on numerous national and internatio- of Mathematics for Economics, Finance and Actuarial Sciences (2001-2008); nal advisory and evaluation committees, including the Innovation Platform and receiver of the Intervida Private Foundation (from the Department of in the Netherlands chaired by the Dutch prime minister. He is also one of the Justice of the Catalan Autonomous Government, 2007-2009). founders of the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences (EUFEPS) and served as its president for several years. He currently is a member of the supervisory board of the Technical University Delft, of the Board of KULeu- ven and of the governing body of .

Prof. Anne Glover Mr. Robert-Jan Smits Chief Scientific Adviser to President Barroso, European Commission Director-General of DG Research & Innovation, European Commission

Professor Anne Glover was Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland from 2006- Robert-Jan Smits is Director-General of DG Research and Innovation (RTD) 11. She joined the European Commission as Chief Scientific Adviser to the at the European Commission. In this capacity he is responsible for defining President in January 2012. Anne holds a Personal Chair of Molecular and and implementing the EU policy and programmes in the field of research Cell Biology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, with current research and innovation (average annual budget 8 billion euro). His previous assig- focusing on the development and application of whole cell biosensors for nment was Deputy Director-General of DG JRC where he was responsible environmental monitoring and investigating how organisms respond to for Programmes and Stakeholder Relations, Resource Management, and stress at a cellular level. three Institutes, being the Institute for Energy, the Institute for Environment She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Society of Bio- and Sustainability and the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies. logy, Royal Society of Arts and the American Academy of Microbiology. Anne Mr. Smits is chairing several high-level committees such as the European was recognised in March 2008 as a Woman of Outstanding Achievement in Research Area Committee (ERAC) and the Steering Committee of the ERC the UK and was awarded a CBE for services to Environmental Science in the (ERCEA) Queen’s New Years Honours list 2009. Speakers LERU’s 10th Anniversary Conference 11

Prof. Bernd Huber Prof. Maria Amparo Camarero Olivas Chairman of LERU and President of LMU München Secretary-General of Universities, Ministry of Education, Culture & Sport

Ms. Maria Amparo Camarero Olivas, Secretary-General of Universities. Professor Dr. Bernd Huber, born 1960 in Wuppertal/Germany, is Professor Awarded the ’s Doctorate in 1993, Maria Amparo Ca- for Public Finance, and since 2002 President of Ludwig-Maximilians-Univer- marero went on to complete a Master in Economics at the College of Eu- sität (LMU) München. He holds a degree in economics from the University rope, Bruges, and then occupied a series of academic posts including visi- Gießen (1984) and received his Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.) in 1988 at the University ting scholar at the Nottingham School of Economics (1992), senior fellow of Würzburg. He completed his post-doctoral thesis in 1994. In the same at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1996) and finally year, he accepted the Chair in Public Finance at LMU München, and was professor of Applied Economics at Jaume I University, where she also held acting as Dean of the Faculty before he was elected as President. Among the Jean Monnet Chair and coordinated the research group Economic Inte- his numerous functions, he is a member of several advisory councils, of the gration (INTECO). More recently, her appointments have included Treasurer Scientific Council to the German Ministry of Finance and of the Board of of the Spanish Association of International Economics and Finance (AEEFI) Directors of Venice International University. Since 2008, Professor Huber is (1998–2005) and Autonomous Secretary for Universities and Science, Gene- the Chairman of LERU. ralitat Valenciana, (2008–2011). Since January 2012, Camarero has acted as Secretary-General of Universities in the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. Apart from her academic and institutional appointments she has also published numerous articles in specialist journals. Prof. Andreu Mas-Colell Catalan Minister for Economy and Knowledge Prof. Carmen Vela Spanish State Secretary for Research, Development and Innovation Prof. Andreu Mas-Colell has been the Catalan Government’s Minister of Eco- nomy and Knowledge since December 2010. He studied Economics at the Uni- Carmen Vela is the Spanish State Secretary for Research, Development and versity of Barcelona and gained his Doctorate from Minnesota University. He is Innovation since January 2012. Before her election, she was managing di- Professor of Economics at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (currently rector at INGENASA, a biotechnology company based in Madrid (Spain) and on leave), and previously Professor of Economics at Harvard University (1981- devoted to a animal health. She is a biochemist with more than 30 years ex- 96) and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Berkeley University in Ca- perience in Immunology, Virology and related fields. She is the author of lifornia (1972-80). In 1997 Andreu Mas-Colell was elected as Foreign Associate numerous publications and patents granted in the EU and US. She was a of the National Academy of Sciences at the EUA and Foreign Honorary Member member of the Advisory Group of PEOPLE, the External Advisory Committee of the American Economic Association and in 2009 he became a member of of EUREKA and President of the Spanish Society for Biotechnology. the European Academy. He was General Secretary of the European Research Council (ERC) between July 2009 and August 2010. From 2006 to 2010 he was President of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. Andreu Mas-Colell has written some 100 research papers on subjects ranging from abstract gene- ral equilibrium theory and the structure of financial markets to pricing policy for public firms. His many awards include the King Juan Carlos I Award for Economy (1988) and the Catalan Sant Jordi Cross (2006). Speakers LERU’s 10th Anniversary Conference 13

Prof. Jordi Alberch Dr. John C. Vaughn Vice-Rector Research of Universitat de Barcelona Executive Vice-President of the Association of American Universities (AAU)

Prof. Jordi Alberch is currently Vice-Rector of Research for the University of Dr. John C. Vaughn was appointed Executive Vice-President of the AAU in Oc- Barcelona. He is Professor in the Department of Cell Biology, Immunology tober 1996. As Executive Vice President, he serves as deputy to the president and Neuroscience in the Medical School of the . He and chief operating officer. He also serves as director of policy studies, su- received his MD (1983) and PhD (1986) degrees from the University of Barce- pervising the association’s work in developing national and institutional po- lona. He was a visiting researcher at Georgetown University (1988-1989), the licies that support the missions of the member universities. He has specific University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)/Robert Wood responsibility for association activities in the areas of intellectual property, Johnson Medical School (1994-1995) and the Karolinska Institute (1997). information technology, research libraries and scholarly communication. His main research topic is the study of the pathophysiology of the neuro- He works with member presidents and chancellors, chief academic officers, degenerative disorders and he has published more than 100 papers in peer and other university administrators in addressing these areas. In promoting reviewed journals. He is a member of the editorial board of several journals. national policies, he works closely with government relations representa- tives to advance appropriate and effective federal legislation and regulations in the support of academic programs and activities.

Prof. Malcolm Grant Prof. Edward Byrne President and Provost of University College London, Member of the LERU Board of Directors Vice-Chancellor of Monash University, Deputy Chair of the Group of Eight (Go8)

Prof. Malcolm Grant has been President and Provost of UCL since 2003, and Professor Byrne has had an active career in clinical neurology and basic neu- was previously Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge. Born and educated in rological research. He received his MBBS with first class honours from the New Zealand, he is an environmental lawyer and Bencher of Middle Temple, University of Tasmania in 1974 and moved to Adelaide the following year, and has researched and published extensively in environmental planning becoming Neurology Registrar in 1977. During the years 1980 – 1982, he and local government law. He was appointed CBE in 2003. was the Muscular Dystrophy Research Fellow at Queen Square in London. He is a member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEF- In 1983, he returned to Australia as the Director of Neurology at St Vincent’s CE) and the Hong Kong University Grants Committee. He is also a Governor Hospital Melbourne and from 1992, was Professor/Director. Ed was awarded of the London Business School and the Ditchley Foundation, and a British the degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Melbourne in 1995. Business Ambassador. He has previously served as Chairman of the Russell He was the Founding Director of the Melbourne Neuromuscular Research Group of the UK’s research-intensive universities, the Local Government Institute and the Founding Director of the Centre for Neuroscience and Commission for England, the UK Agriculture and Biotechnology Commis- Professor of Experimental Neurology at the University of Melbourne. As Di- sion and the Standards Committee of the Greater London Authority. In 2011 rector of the Centre for Neuroscience, he played a major role in driving the he was appointed to chair the new NHS Commissioning Board. establishment of Neurosciences Victoria and Neurosciences Australia. He is a Board member of BUPA Pty and Cochlear Pty Ltd and immediate past Editor-in-Chief of the Internal Medicine Journal. Speakers LERU’s 10th Anniversary Conference 15

Prof. Wei Yang Prof. Helga Nowotny President of Zheijiang University and Chair of the C9 League President of the European Research Council

Professor Wei YANG was born on 16 February 1954 in China. He received his Prof. Helga Nowotny is Professor Emerita of Social Studies of Science, ETH PhD. from Brown University,(USA) in 1985 and was promoted to full professor Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and a founding member of the at Tsinghua University (China) in 1989. His main academic and research areas European Research Council. In 2007 she was elected ERC Vice President and cover Fracture Mechanics, Mechatronic Reliability, and Micro/Nanomechanics. in March 2010 succeeded Fotis Kafatos as President of the ERC. She holds a In 2006, he took the position of President of Zhejiang University, China. He has Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University (USA). and a doctorate in juris- also served as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, member of the prudence from the University of Vienna. Her current host institution is the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Council Member of China As- Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF). Helga Nowotny is a member sociation of Science and Technology, Chair of Zhejiang Association for Science of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ludwig Maximilians University Mu- and Technology, Chair of the Union of Chinese Research Universities, Chair of nich and member of many other international Advisory Boards and selection the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (2009-2010), and Asia-Pacific Chair committees. From 2005 until– June 2011 she was Chair of the Scientific Advi- of the Global University Network of Innovation, and as a member of the Part- sory Board of the University of Vienna. She is a Foreign member of the Royal nership Board Steering Group of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN). Swedish Academy of Sciences and long standing member the Academia Eu- ropaea and recipient of several prizes and awards.

Prof. Kurt Deketelaere Mr. Brian Ager Secretary-General of LERU Secretary-General of the European Roundtable of Industrialists

Since July 2009, Kurt is the Secretary-General of the League of European Re- Brian Ager is Secretary-General of the European Round Table of Industrialists search Universities (LERU). (ERT). The ERT is a forum of some 50 European industrial leaders aiming Before joining LERU, he was the chief legal advisor (2004-2007) and the at promoting the competitiveness and growth of Europe’s economy. ERT chief of staff (2007-2009) of the Flemish Minister for Public Works, Energy, Members are Chairmen and Chief Executives of major European companies. Environment and Nature. He is also a professor of law (however on parttime Prior to this he was for 16 years Director General of EFPIA, the European Fe- leave since 2007) at the University of Leuven, the university where he studied deration of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, the representative law (1984-1989), obtained his PhD in Law (1989-1995) and spent (until now) voice of the research-based pharmaceutical industry operations in Europe. his whole academic career. His background includes ten years in the UK Government’s Health and Safe- Furthermore, he is an honorary professor of law at the University of Dun- ty Executive firstly as a Specialist Inspector of health and safety and then as dee, and has been a visiting professor of law at the Universities of London, Secretary to the UK’s Advisory Committee on Genetic Manipulation. Before Sydney and Singapore. Kurt published extensively in the field of EU Environ- that he held posts at the UK Department of Health and in a National Health mental, Energy and Climate Change Law, and is the editor of several leading Service hospital as a clinical biochemist. bookseries and journals in that field. Finally, he is on the board of a number of profit and non-profit organisations in Belgium, and chairs the Board of Directors of the Flemish Energy Regu- lator (VREG). Speakers LERU’s 10th Anniversary Conference 17

Mrs. Lesley Wilson Prof. Alain Beretz Secretary-General of the European University Association President of the Université de Strasbourg, Member of the LERU Board of Directors

Professor Beretz graduated in Pharmacy and has been a member of the Lesley Wilson joined EUA at its creation in 2001 and formally took over as Pharmacology faculty of the since 1990. His re- Secretary General in 2002. Previous to this, she held a number of senior po- search deals with thrombotic disorders, vascular pharmacology and chronic sitions in higher education and research management at European level, in vascular diseases. He was Vice-President in charge of technology transfer, particular as Director of UNESCO’s European Centre for Higher Education and then President of the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg. He was in Bucharest (UNESCO-CEPES) from 1995 to late 1999, Head of the newly elected in January 2009 as the first president of the University of Strasbourg, established Science Policy Unit at the European Science Foundation in Stras- resulting from the innovative merger of the three previous universities. The bourg (1994/1995) and Director of the EC TEMPUS Office in Brussels from University of Strasbourg is a laureate of the “Operation campus”, leading to 1990 to 1994. a €375 million endowment for the improvement of campus buildings, and A graduate of the University of Glasgow and the Institut des Hautes Etudes one of the first three winners of the “Excellence Initiative”, a series of com- Européennes at the University of Strasbourg, she spent her early career as petitive calls for projects yielding a total €1.2 billion of endowment. He is one a scientific staff member of the German Science Council in Cologne before of three members of the Board of Directors of LERU. moving to Brussels in 1988 to join the newly established ERASMUS Bureau.

Prof. Sir Leszek Borysiewicz Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge

Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge since October 2010.

Sir Leszek was previously Chief Executive of the UK’s Medical Research Council (2007-10) and before that he was at Imperial College London, as Principal of the Faculty of Medicine and later as Deputy Rector, where he led the development of inter-disciplinary research between engineering, physi- cal sciences and biomedicine. Whilst at the University of Wales in Cardiff in the 1980s he led a research team that carried out pioneering work on vaccines. He was knighted in 2001 for services to medical research and education. Map Historic Building – Universitat de Barcelona

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