2019 The XXXIII Euragri Conference
Event Information
Description
Sunday 22 September
19:30 Visit to Ghent historical center followed by dinner at Restaurant Pakhuis (at own expenses)
Monday 23 September (at ILVO - Mensa - Caritasstraat 39 - 9090 Melle)
8:00 Pick up at the hotel
8:30 Registration open
9:00 Welcome:
- Opening speech Flemish Minister
- ILVO, Joris Relaes, Administrator General
- Agrolink Flanders, Nadine Buys, President
- EURAGRI, Gerry Boyle, President
10:00 Keynote session I : Where are we coming from - where are we going? Yves Seghers, Centre for Agrarian History
10:30 Global challenges in feeding 10 billion humans caring for their health and the planet. (Presenting perspectives from the The Lancet report) Lina Gordon, Stockholm Resilience Center
11:00 Coffee
11:20 Keynote session II: The multi-actor approach within the Agricultural Knowledge Innovation System, Inge Van Oost, DG AGRI, EC
11:50 The role of agribusiness in providing solutions for the future Marc Sneyders, Bayer
12:10 Young European farmers’ vision of agriculture Jannes Maes, CEJA
12:30 Lunch at the Food Pilot (with demos and tasting of local food)
14:00 Excursion to ILVO (Plant and Animal Department)
16:00 EURAGRI General Assembly @ILVO (members only)
17:30 Transport to Brewery Huyghe
18:00 Visit to Brewery Huyghe – reception with beer and snacks
19:00 Transport Restaurant Het Pand - Ghent - Dinner 19:30
Tuesday 24 September (at PAC - Room De Schelde - W. Wilsonplein 2, Ghent)
9:00 The BIOEAST Initiative Barna Kovacks, Permanent Representation of Hungary to the EU
9:30 Reporting from EURAGRI workshop “The European Research and Innovation Agenda in an international perspective – the role of multifunctional approaches”, Bettina Heimann & Uno Svedin, EURAGRI
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Interactive session - moderator Greet Riebbels, Head Communications Dpt. ILVO Engagement of stakeholders in co-designing research and innovation agendas and impact? Visions of the future; how to get there and what do we expect from research? Elke Rogge, Dpt Agriculture & Society, ILVO
10:45 Stakeholders’ voices: Farmers: - Lars Croket, Leaks BE, - Balázs Fatér, Herbs, HU
11:15 The food processing industry, Veerle Rijckaert, Flanders Food
11:30 Slow Food, Ursula Hudson, Consumer Organisation
11:45 NGO: Joris Aertsens,Rikolto
Discussions/Voting +/- 60 minutes
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Panel session: reactions from the agricultural research sector: Moderator Gerry Boyle - ILVO (tbc)
- Christian Huyghe, INRA
- Ülle Jaakma, Estonian Life Science University
- Wayne Powell, SRUC
15:00 Rounding up
15:30 Closing of conference
HOTELS
We made a selection of hotels in the historical center of Ghent, you can book them using the following links:
Picture: KADOC-KU Leuven. Beeldarchief Boerenbond