The ScanBalt Satellite Meeting - Science & Policy

 

Our goal is to improve the chances of the Nordic region to face the major future challenges in:

  • health
  • ecology
  • climate

Coping with the enormous dimensions and complexity of these challenges requires advanced research based on state of the art combined with a strong political backing. This meeting aims to increase the awareness among political decision makers about the need to bolster collaborative research in the Nordic region.

ScanBalt sees it as a major task to catalyze the interplay between researchers and political decision makers so as to establish the intellectual infrastructure on which the future society so strongly depends.
The ScanBalt Academy seminar is dealing with science and policy, ecology and biomedicine, and most important with collaboration within these important issues at Top of Europe, - The High North Policy.

We are proud to count on the participation of the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jonas Gahr Støre, and the newly elected President of American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, Professor and Nobel laureate Peter Agre at our meeting.
Minister Gahr Støre will discuss the international implications of High North Policy while Professor Peter Agre will discuss the role of science in diplomacy, using Fridtjof Nansen as a role model for the 21st Century. We will have lectures about marine bioprospecting in the North, and discuss health and climate in an Arctic perspective. An important topic will be a discussion about the ecology of the northern marine regions, the White Sea, The Barents Sea and the Baltic Sea. These topics are very important for bringing ecology and biomedicine from Russia and Northern Europe more close together.

We believe that by combining science and policy issues, we are creating new opportunities for the progress in the region.

 

Program June 10th (13.00 - 17.15)

  • 13.00 Welcome by Kaare R. Norum, President ScanBalt Academy
  • 13.15 Jonas Gahr Støre: The High North Policy: Implications for collaboration with Russia on Science (Minister of Foreing Affairs, NORWAY)
  • 13.25 Peter Agre: The role of Science in Diplomacy; FridtjofNasen as a role model for the 21st Century (John Hopkins School of Public Health, USA)
  • 14.00 Hans Metelmann: ScanBalt, a Biomedical Region at the Top of Europe (Professor and Chair ScanBalt, Schwerin)
  • 14.15 Liisa-Hakamies Blomqvist: New Nordic Research Initiatives (NordForsk Director, NORWAY)

COFFEE BREAK

  • 15.00 Jeanette H. Andersen: Marine Bioprospecting in the North (Univ. of Tromsø, NORWAY)
  • 15.15 Fredrik Almqvist: New antibiotics from the Arctic Ocean (Univ. of Umeå, SWEDEN)
  • 15.45 Nils Christian Stenseth: The Ecology of the Barents Sea (Univ. of Oslo, NORWAY)
  • 16.15 Viktor Berger: White Sea: Ecology and Environment (White Sea Biological Station, RUSSIA)
  • 16.45 Erik Bonsdorff: Ecology of the Baltic Sea (Åbo Akademi University, FINLAND)