P R O G R A M M E

Tuesday 18, 9:00-18:00

Room: Teatro Auditorio

9:00-9:45Conference opening and welcoming speeches

Vicente Álvarez Areces, President of the Government of the Principality of Asturias: The Integrated Maritime Policy, the role of the European Marine and Maritime Research and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Paz Fernández Felgueroso, Mayor of Gijón, Spain

Alicia Paz Antolín, Director General for the Sustainability of the Coast and the Sea, Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, Spain

Paul Nemitz, Head of Unit Maritime Policy coordination and development, Directorate General Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, European Commission

Enrique Tortosa Martorell, Director General, Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), Spain

9:45-11:15 Session 1: Research in marine renewable energies and maritime transport/shipping and shipbuilding

CHAIR: Waddah Saab, Research Programme Officer, Surface Transport , Directorate General Research, European Commission

RAPPORTEUR: Geoffrey O’Sullivan, Marine Institute, Ireland

Nathalie Rousseau, European Ocean Energy Association, (EU-OEA)

Cristina Huertas, Director Marine Energy, Inabensa-Abengoa, Spain

Iver Iversen, Business Development Director, Wilhelmsen Shipping

11:35-13:00 Session 2: Research and innovation related to sustainable fisheries and mariculture.

CHAIR: Eduardo Balguerías, Deputy Director, Spanish Oceanographic Institut

RAPPORTEUR: Willem Brugge, Directorate General Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, European Commission

Paul Connolly, Director, Fisheries Science, Marine Institute, Ireland

Michael Kaiser, School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales-Bangor

Martin Scholten, Director Animal Sciences Group, University of Wageningen, the Netherlands

Courtney Hough, General Secretary, European Aquaculture, Technology and Innovation Platform (EaTip)

Jacques Fuchs, Head of Sector Fisheries and Aquaculture, Directorate General Research, European Commission

14:30-16:30 Session 3: Research and innovation related to marine biotechnologies

CHAIR: Garbiñe Guiu Etxeberria, Research Programme Officer, Directorate General Research, European Commission

RAPPORTEUR: Javier Pantoja, Advisor, Ministry for Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, Spain

Carmen Cuevas, Director Research and Development PharmaMar

Jan Olafsen, University of Tromsø, Norway

Beatriz Reguera, Spanish Institute of Oceanography

Mercedes García-González, University of Seville, Spain

16:30-18:00 Session 4: Research and innovation related to underwater marine technologies and European research infrastructures

CHAIR: Klaus Wallmann, Head of the Research Unit "Marine Geosystems", Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences, IFM-Geomar, Kiel, Germany

RAPPORTEUR: Antonio M. Pascoal, Professor, Technical Superior Institute, Portugal

Gilles Ollier, Head of the Earth Observation Sector, Directorate for Environment, European Commission

Chantal Compère, IFREMER, Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (French Research Institute forthe Exploitation of the Sea), France

Vincent Rigaud, Director Underwater Systems, Ifremer, France

John Campbell, Technical Director, International Association of Oil and Gas Producers