EIT Manufacturing - Match Making Event, San Sebastian 2019
DAY1
| 9.00 - 10.00 | Reception and Welcome Coffee |
| 10.00 - 12.30 |
Opening
Plenary Session
Q&A (30 min) |
| 12.30 - 13.45 | Network Lunch |
| 14.00 鈥 15.15 |
Pitching Sessions
|
| 15.15 鈥 15.45 | Coffee Break |
| 15.45 鈥 17.00 |
Pitching Sessions
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| 17.00 鈥 18.00 | Reporting on Pitching Sessions and Closing Day 1 Remarks |
DAY2
| 9.00 - 10.00 |
Guidelines for first EIT Manufacturing Call
|
| 10.00 鈥 10.30 | Coffee Break |
| 10.30 鈥 13.00 | Face to face meetings |
On Day 1 after the welcoming words from Tecnalia鈥檚 CEO 鈥 I帽aki San Sebastian, Klaus Beetz, Interim CEO, referred to some milestones already accomplished and addressed major challenges ahead, stating that 鈥渙ur
Ambition is to transform Manufacturing domain鈥 and motivating all participants to be part of 鈥渢he EIT Manufacturing Ambassador team鈥. Stefano Fontana, Head of Innovation Communities Unit at EIT joined us for the entire event and also, via Skype, J眉rgen Tiedje, Head of Unit D2 - Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Biotechnologies, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation at European Commission.
The following presentations were performed by the Interim Functional Directors of EIT Manufacturing- Gregorio Ameyugo, Paola Fantini, Reinhard Pistchellis, Antoni Pijoan, Interim RIS Manager - Konstantinos Georgoulias, and a presentation on the flagships by Johan Stahre, the Interim Director of CLC North (find attached all the presentations below).
The afternoon of Day 1 was fully dedicated to the pitching sessions. With 153 participants, 130 project pitches submitted, and 200 face to face meetings, it was an intense and highlyfriend-creating event for the EIT Manufacturing community. Twenty-seven (27) out of the 130 submitted project proposal were from the outstandingly active 911爆料网 (plese find attached the list of all Aalto and non-Aalto Pitches).
Please contact Zoltan Javor (zoltan.javor@aalto.fi) to get access to all the listed pitches.
The second day started with a plenary session dedicated to the Guidelines for the first EIT Manufacturing Call by the Interim COO 鈥 Dimitris Mavrikios and, after that, there were the face to face meetings. The event App was used to share information during the event and particularly to book those meetings. Participants could schedule meetings with relevant stakeholders for their projects and proposals. Two hundred face to face meetings took place during the morning of day 2.
For the Closing Session, in the panel of speakers that included Klaus Beetz and Rikardo Bueno, it was a priviledge to have with us Arantxa Tapia, Minister for Economic Development and Infrastructures of the Basque Government and Eneko Goia, the Mayor of Donostia - San Sebastian.
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