Agenda

09:00 - 09:30 Opening

Name Surname | Position

Day 1: 10th of May, 2023

Venue: Didžioji Aula, Gimnazijos st. 7, Kaunas, Lithuania

Day 2: 11 th of May, 2023

Venue: Room 217, VMU Agriculture Academy, Studentų st. 11, Kaunas region.

Day 1: 10th of May, 2023

Venue: Didžioji Aula, Gimnazijos st. 7, Kaunas, Lithuania

8:45 – 9:00 Registration

Joint high-level kick-off
MODERATORprof. Tomas Krilavičius, VMU

9:00 – 9:05 Welcome speech

Prof. Juozas Augutis, Rector of Vytautas Magnus University

9:05 – 9:10 Welcome speech

TBA

9:10 – 9:15 Welcome speech

European Research Executive Agency, Head of Sector in
Widening Participation Unit, Patricio ORTIZ DE LA TORRE

9:15 – 9:20 Welcome speech

Prof. Peter Aronsson, Rector of Linnaeus University.

9:20 – 9:25 Welcome speech

Karina Firkaviciute, Policy Officer, DG Research and Innovation

9:25 – 9:30 Welcome speech

Gintautas Jakštas, Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Lithuania

9:30 – 9:35 Welcome speech

Danas Augutis, Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania

9:35 – 9:40 Welcome speech

Lena Wibroe, vice Mayor, Växjö

9:40 – 9:45 Welcome speech

TBA

Key-note speeches

10:00 – 10:20 Current challenges in sustainable forestry: why excellence matters

Gintautas Mozgeris, Professor, Vytautas Magnus University
Ola Eriksson, Professor, LNU / Johan Bergh, Professor, LNU

10:20 – 10:40 Digital transformation of society and industry – an applied research perspective. How we can apply this to forestry 4.0?

Arianit Kurti, Associate Professor, LNU

10:40 – 10:55 Introduction to Forest 4.0 CoE: Governance and Infrastructure, CoE’s strategy

Tomas Krilavičius, Prof., Vytautas Magnus University

Main Research Tasks of the project, Business model implementation through innovation support services

Rytis Maskeliūnas, Professor, Kaunas University of Technology

10:55 – 11:10 Policy Aspects of Teaming Action within the Horizon Europe Work Program "Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation"

REA’s expectations towards Teaming project implementation

European Research Executive Agency, Head of Sector in Widening Participation Unit, Patricio ORTIZ DE LA TORRE

11:10 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30 PANEL SESSION

Moderator, Kristina Alešiūnienė, AgriFood
Barbora Kudzmanaitė, Research Manager, PPMI ‘Digitalisation in the agrifood sector – cross-cutting lessons learned’
Prof. Julija Kiršienė, VMU Vice – Rector for Research
Dr. Leonas Balaševičius, Vice-Rector of Kaunas University of Technology
Anna Rosenqvist, Interior Cluster, Sweden
Danas Augutis, Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania
Prof. Astrida Miceikienė, Chancellor of Agriculture Academy, VMU
Prof. Peter Aronsson, Linnaeus University, Rector
Dr. Rimantas Vaitkus, Member of VMG Group‘s Strategy Board
Closing remarks

REA’s expectations towards Teaming project implementation

Media

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

Technical project kick-off (307 a., Gimnazijos st. 7, Kaunas)

13:30 -14:30 Opening remarks, main objectives of the project Brief description of WPs and the way forward

Prof. Tomas Krilavičius, VMU

14:30 - 14:45 Coffee break

14:45 - 15:45 Project implementation: Legal, Financial, and Administrative Aspects

Project Officer Doru-Leonard Irimie

15:45 - 16:15 Q&A

Exchanges between EC/REA officers and the project team

19:00 Networking/social event (Višta Puode)

Exchanges between EC/REA officers and the project team

Day 2: 11 th of May, 2023

Venue: Room 217, VMU Agriculture Academy, Studentų st. 11, Kaunas region.

9:00 - 17:00 Internal project kick-off

Participants: Project beneficiaries and REA/EC staff

9:00 – 10:00 Visit VMU Forestry Labs

prof. Gintautas Mozgeris

10:00 - 11:30 Brief description of WPs 1,2,3 and way forward

Speakers: VMU prof. Tomas Krilavičius

11:30 - 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 - 12:45 Discussing WP 4 Scientific excellence and education activities development

LNU, prof. Arianit Kurti

12:45 - 13:45 Lunch

13:45 - 15:00 Discussing WP 5 Business model implementation through innovation support services

KTU, prof. Rytis Maskeliūnas

15:00 - 16:00 Discussing on WP 6 Dissemination, exploitation, and communication

Art21 founder, AGTech Investor, EIT Food care partner, startup ecosystem expert Augustas Alešiūnas;
Senior Innovation Officer at AgriFood Lithuania Thomas Gitsoudis

16:00 - 16:15 EDIH for industry, agfro and energy – opportunities for green and digital transformation

LIC Project manager Gytis Junevičius

16:15 - 16:30 The Synergy of Forestry and Digital Innovations (GFarm for LIFE, ICAERUS, XGain)

Researcher & R&D Projects Coordinator at ART21 Kęstutis Skridaila

16:30 - 17:00 Closing remarks

Researcher & R&D Projects Coordinator at ART21 Kęstutis Skridaila

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