Successful R & I in Europe 2024

Agenda

Thursday, 15 February 2024 (Day 1)

Including exhibition: Innovations for Europe based in NRW

Conference Moderator: Dr Bernd Janson

Friday, 16 February 2024 (Day 2)

Including exhibition: Innovations for Europe based in NRW

Conference Moderator: Dr Bernd Janson

Van der Valk Airporthotel

Am Hülserhof 57
40472 Düsseldorf

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Airport-Venue shuttle

There will be a shuttle from the airport to the venue (and back) on 15 and 16 February 2024.

About one week prior to the event, we will inform all participants who have indicated that they require an airport-venue shuttle where and when the shuttle service will run!

The meeting point at the airport where the shuttle leaves will be signposted.

The service is operated free of charge as a courtesy to our participants and on a “first-come, first served” basis. Please note that it is not possible to book the shuttle.

There will be more information about the shuttle service soon.

There are several hotels close to Düsseldorf Airport. We have made special arrangements with three of them for our conference delegates. You can book rooms using our promotional codes. You are, of course, also free to book other hotel accommodation.

Please note that the event organizer does NOT cover any travel expenses, costs for hotels, etc. nor can the event organizer book accommodation for you.

Van der Valk Airporthotel

It is recommended that event participants stay at the conference hotel. 40 rooms are reserved for the Successful R&I in Europe 2024: 11^th European Networking Event.

• Single room per room/night €153 incl. breakfast
• Double room per room/night €163 incl. breakfast

To reserve Van der Valk Airporthotel please call T +49 211 200 63 0 or send an email with the promotional code: ZENIT

Address: Van der Valk Airporthotel, Am Hülserhof 57, 40472 Düsseldorf

This offer is available until 17 January 2024.

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ibis Düsseldorf Airport

Event participants can also stay at ibis Düsseldorf Airport, which is only a short distance from the event venue. 30 rooms are reserved for the Successful R&I in Europe 2024: 11^th European Networking Event.

• Single room €82 per room/night incl. breakfast

To reserve ibis Düsseldorf Airport please call T +49 211 29888711 or send an email with the promotional code:: ZENIT150224

Address: ibis Düsseldorf Airport, Wanheimer Str. 78, 40468 Düsseldorf

This offer is available until 5 January 2024.

Hotel Mutterhaus

Event participants can also stay at Hotel Mutterhaus, which is only a short distance from the event venue. 25 rooms are reserved for the Successful R&I in Europe 2024: 11^th European Networking Event.

• Single room €137 person/night incl. breakfast
• Double room €157 per room/night incl. breakfast

To reserve Hotel Mutterhaus please call T +49 211 61727-0 or send an email with the promotional code: SUCCESSFUL 2024

Address: Hotel Mutterhaus Düsseldorf GmbH, Geschwister-Aufricht-Str. 1, 40489 Düsseldorf

This offer is available until 21 December 2023.

How to participate in the Call for Presentations

Each presentation lasts a maximum of 6 minutes.

Parallel workshops will focus on eight topics:

• Cluster 1: Health
• Cluster 2: Creative Industries
• Cluster 4: Digital Technologies
• Cluster 4: Industrial Technologies
• Cluster 5: Energy
• Cluster 5: Mobility
• Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
• Innovation Procurement (PCP/PPI)

The deadline for submitting proposals in the call for presentations is 12 January 2024.

Around 400 stakeholders from science and business took part in the international networking event “Successful R&I in Europe 2019” on 14 and 15 February.

It was the tenth time that the Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia had extended an invitation to the “Successful Research & Innovation in Europe” conference in Düsseldorf. In its anniversary year, a record 400 delegates from science and business (double the figure from the first conference in 2009!) from 30 countries seized the opportunity to present not only new ideas for future projects but also research results ready for commercialisation, seek potential partners for joint “Horizon 2020” proposals and engage in networking.

Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen, Minister, and Klaus Kaiser, Parliamentary State Secretary, both from the Ministry of Culture and Science, took part on behalf of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia in the international platform organised by the NRW.Europa team at ZENIT. The European Commission was represented by Dr. Wolfgang Burtscher, Deputy Director-General for Research and Innovation and Mattia Pellegrini of the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME).

The conference focussed on “Horizon 2020”, the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, for which a budget of about € 80 billion was/is available for research projects in the period from 2014 to 2020. About € 20 billion in funding are still available for the last two years of the programme.

“Few other regions spend as much on research as we do. North Rhine-Westphalia is in a good position to deliver a valuable contribution,” said Klaus Kaiser, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture and Science, in his welcome address. He went on to say that the platform is an excellent opportunity for stakeholders in North Rhine-Westphalia to establish interesting contacts with whom to put innovative ideas into practice.

Mattia Pellegrini, Head of Department Finance and Administration at the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (the European Commission body in charge of the Enterprise Europe Network), spoke on “Ten Years of the Enterprise Europe Network: Results and Challenges”, stressing the Network’s importance for Europe’s business and research landscape.

“Engaging with proposers is essential in order to identify what advice and support they require. Only in this way can a seamless transition from Horizon 2020 to Horizon Europe succeed in 2021 and can we continue to expand North Rhine-Westphalia’s participation in the forthcoming Framework Programme for Research and Innovation,” said Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen, NRW’s Minister of Culture and Science, in her keynote speech entitled “Horizon Europe: First Impressions from NRW”.

Dr. Wolfgang Burtscher, Deputy Director-General for Research and Innovation, explained the draft proposal for Horizon Europe, which will follow on from Horizon 2020 and run from 2021 to 2027. The programme has a budget of € 100 billion and represents a revised and improved research and innovation agenda aimed at making better use of Europe’s globally leading role in research excellence and of its industrial strengths.

The conference was structured in thematic workshops – with about 120 pitches over the two-day event – and open networking sessions. The topics presented originated, amongst others, from the fields of ICT, nanotechnologies, energy, life sciences and transport.

With over 3,000 delegates in total, the “Successful R&I in Europe” conference series, for which the working language is English despite the German venue, has been a tremendous success since it first took place in 2009. This large number of participants substantiates its importance for Europe’s research and innovation calendar. The consortia it has produced have led to over 100 project proposals at EU, national and regional level. The fact that over half the delegates came from abroad confirms that the format answers a demand for networking platforms at international level.

In the framework of a parallel exhibition entitled “Innovations for Europe based in NRW”, a number of selected projects and initiatives were presented.

Delegates had at their disposal an eCar shuttle service provided with the support of local sponsors that ran between Düsseldorf Airport and the impressive venue of Van der Valk Airporthotel.

The conference profited from a broad spectrum of promotional activities undertaken by the Enterprise Europe Network, the largest business, technology and innovation support network in the world (over 600 organisations in over 60 countries), of which ZENIT is a partner in a consortium with NRW.BANK and NRW.International. Further assistance was provided by many organisations in this year’s partner countries: Belgium, Finland, France, Israel, the Netherlands and Poland.

(From left to right: Dr. Karsten W. Lemke, ZENIT GmbH; Dr. Wolfgang Burtscher, Deputy Director-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission; Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen, Minister of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia; Dr. Bernd Janson, ZENIT GmbH; Dr. Peter Fisch, moderator)

• Keynote speech by Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen, Minister of Culture and Science
• Keynote speech by Klaus Kaiser, Parliamentary State Secretary

Contact:
ZENIT GmbH
Dr. Bernd Janson
Tel.: +49(0)208 30004 22
bj(at)zenit.de

Video „Impressions from Successful R&I in Europe 2019: 10th European Networking Event“

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the conference series „Successful R&I in Europe: European Networking Event“, ZENIT GmbH/NRW.Europa produced a new video to celebrate its success over the last decade. The video features both the keynote speakers (Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen, NRW’s Minister of Culture and Science; Klaus Kaiser, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture and Science; Dr. Wolfgang Burtscher, Deputy Director-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission; Mattia Pellegrini, Head of Department Finance and Administration,  Executive Agency for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (EASME)) and testimonials from other important players in the European innovation and technology landscape, such as Dr. Peter Fisch, former Head of Unit at DG Research and Innovation, representatives of the Enterprise Europe Network, the National Contact Points as well as project managers and innovative enterprises in NRW.

Happy Viewing!