Event

30-03-2017
1st China-Belgium Innovation Dialogue

Programme
Participants list

Plenary session - Presentations

Welcome Words  (Ms Zuhal Demir)

Research and Innovation Landscape and Policy in China & in Belgium

• R&I landscape and policy in Belgium  (Ms Zuhal Demir)
• R&I Landscape and Policy in China  (H. E. Mr HUANG Wei)
• Greeting to the First China-Belgium Innovation Dialogue  (H. E. Mr QU Xing)

Successful Cooperation Instruments

• Young Scientist Exchanges
  • Introduction of National Science Foundation of China (Mr FENG Feng)
  • Cooperation instruments China-F.R.S.-FNRS (Mr Joel GROENEVELD)
  • How to promote Flemish-Chinese partnerships in basic research? (Ms Isabelle VERBAEYS, FWO)
    
• Cooperation among Science Parks
  • The ongoing story of a successful sino-belgian cooperation (Ms Magdalini IOANNIDIS, Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park)
  • Wuhan East Lake High-Tech Development Zone  (Ms LI Jing)
  • The Go-to Platform for Hi-tech China-EU Innovation & Cooperation (Ms ZHANG Minrong, United Investment Europe SA)
    

Highlights of Science and Innovation Cooperation

• Factories of the Future
  • SMIC and Imec Collaborations (Ms JI Minghua)
  • Huawei Corporate Presentation (Mr KONG Yu)
  • Nanoelectronics and digital technology enabling disruptive innovation (Mr Luc VAN DEN HOVE, IMEC)
  • The Go-to Platform for Hi-tech China-EU Innovation & Cooperation (Ms ZHANG Minrong)
• Life sciences
  • Development and valorisation of new control strategies of pests, vectors of viral diseases in rural regions (Mr Frederic FRANCIS, ULg – Gembloux ABT)
  • Agricultural Development in China and China-Belgium Collaboration
    (Mr WU Kongming, CAAS)
    
• Space and Aeronautics
  • SPACE in BELGIUM (Mr Jacques NIJSKENS, BELSPO)
  • Innovation Cooperation development (Mr FAN Bin)

Concluding remarks from the chairs  (Belgium: Ms Zuhal Demir, CASC)

Concluding remarks Minister  (Mr Wei Huang, Ministry of Science and
Technology, China)

Forum - Presentations

Factories of the Future

• Nanoelectronics and digital technology enabling disruptive innovation(Mr Ludo DEFERM, IMEC)
• Factories of the Futurein Wallonia (Mr Benoit MACQ, UCL)
• Flanders make (Mr Bert DEXTERS)
• Mecatech (Mr Thibaud VANROODEN)
• A Better Connected World (Mr KONG Yu, HUAWEI)
• SMIC (Ms JI Minghua)

Life sciences

• Regional agri-platforms in Flanders: an opportunity for
  internationinal collaboration  (Ms Sylvia BURSSENS, Agrolink)
• BIOwin  (Ms Laurence Timmermans)
• Single point of entry to support the development of your health project in Brussels  (Ms Camille MOMMER, Lifetech Brussels)
• Research on Antimicrobial Resistance linked to China  (Mr Herman GOOSSENS, UAntwerpen)
• Agricultural Development in China and China-Belgium Collaboration (Mr WU Kongming, CAAS)
• Creating More Golden Results in Chinese Golden Decade (Mr XIE Kehong, Goub)
  

Space and Aeronautics

• Skywin  (Mr Michel STASSART)
• The Flemish Aerospace Group (FLAG) and success stories of research and development in the Flemish aviation sector (Mr Helge PFEIFFER)
• Unlocking the potential of Near Space  (Mr Steven KREKELS, VITO)
• CAS and its Cooperation with Belgium in Space and Aeronautics (Mr CAO Dianwen)
• Innovation cooperation development (Mr FAN Bin, CASC)