EPS – ICTP – UNESCO – SEENET- MTP Workshop

Promotion of physics in the CEI countries and
Integrating Access to Research Infrastructures in Europe
Sofia, 23-25 November 2014

Type of activity:

The Second workshop in the frame of the Project “Towards the integration of the Physics community in CEI countries into the ERA” co-financed by:

• Central European Initiative (CEI)
• European Physical Society (EPS)
• ICTP Trieste (Italy)
• Southeastern European Network in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics (SEENET-MTP)
• UNESCO Venice Office (UVO)

Participants:

The Workshop will bring together scientists, EU officials and science policy experts, as well as representatives of the SEENET-MTP partner institutions, aiming to establish a strategic and project partnership between leading scientific institutions and researchers from South-East, Central-East and Western European countries.

Main goals:

• To establish a strategic and project partnership between leading scientific institutions and researchers from SE-CE and European countries.
• To identify specific actions and to prepare joint applications of to Horizon 2020 Programme and similar European and Paneuropean Programmes

Venue:

Sofia, Bulgaria
BEST WESTERN PLUS City Hotel
6 Stara planina Str., Sofia 1000, BG
Tel.: +359 2 915 15 00; Fax: +359 2 42 31 078

Program Committee:

• Mario Scalet, UNESCO Venice Office
• Ignatios Antoniadis / Luis Alvarez Gaume, CERN Geneva
• Ana Proykova, Sofia University
• Radu Constantinescu, SEENET-MTP Craiova
• Goran Djordjevic, SEENET – MTP Nis
• Christoph Rossel, EPS
• David Lee, EPS
• Alessandro Lombardo. CEI Trieste
• Joe Niemela, ICTP
• Fernando Quevedo, ICTP

Organizing Institutions:

• SEENET-MTP Office Nis
• Physical Society Nis, as the logistic partner
• University of Sofia (logistic partner)

(Source: A. Proykova/Sofia University)