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
MODERATOR – prof. 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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