Going to the EuroScience Open Forum

From Wednesday 25th to Saturday 28th Stockholm will host the EuroScience Open Forum 2004, an european-level open conference on the current status, challenges and promises of science, technology and their impact on society. Organized by the EuroScience association, the gathering should be a good occasion to get an up-to-date view on the trends, policies and debates going on in Europe.

The programme is dense, to say the least, and as the page describes it as a smörgåsbord (Swedish self-serving buffet), it indeeds combines plenary lectures, seminars, open debates as well as exhibitions and events all around the city, thus trying to make it closer to a celebration of science than just yet-another dry succession of panels. As for me, I am most interested by the sessions on emerging fields and the ones on the policy issues in Europe (such as Innovation and creativity in Europe, organized by the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship). The most difficult decision will be to choose among all the simultaneously scheduled events...

See you at Norra Latin and Folkets Hus!