For the first time, the ERC will take part in VivaTech, an annual technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups held in Paris, France. Together with the CNRS, the ERC will take part in the CNRS Innovation and Prospective Talks – a programme of round-tables bringing together scientists and representatives from the innovation ecosystem.
 
ERC Scientific Council Member, Sylvie Lorente, will take part as a speaker in the round-table ‘The European Union: bringing publicly-funded basic research to market’ alongside Alain Mermet, Director of the Europe and International Division at the CNRS to discuss how the European Union can sustain a dynamic that fosters innovation growing out of public research. Testimonials will be provided by entrepreneurs who have benefited from European Union funding such as Amanda Silva Brun, an ERC grantee and CNRS Director of Research as well as Co-founder of Everzom.

Programme:
 
'The European Union: bringing publicly-funded basic research to market' 
 
Moderator:

• Saman Mussachio, Head of editorial content CNRS

 
Speakers :

• Alain Mermet, Director, Europe and International Division, CNRS
• Sylvie Lorente, ERC Scientific Council Member, Associate Dean for Research and Innovation College of Engineering Villanova University, Pennsylvania, USA / Professeur INSA Toulouse
• Amanda Silva Brun, CNRS Director of Research, Co-founder of Everzom and ERC grantee
• Dafiné Ravelosona, CNRS Director of Research, Co-founder of Spin-Ion Technologies

 
Please note this event will take place at the CNRS stand at Vivatech and will not be web-streamed.