5th European Innovation Summit: '5 Calls to Wake-up Europe'

The 5th European Innovation Summit will take place from 30 September-3 October in the European Parliament. The summit is taking place under the patronage of European Parliament President Martin Schulz, and will feature around 25 events including a closing and opening ceremony, a series of conference sessions, workshops, breakfast, lunch and dinner debates organised by summit partners and an exhibition.

Key speakers will include several commissioners, 30 MEPs, Prof. Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Adviser to the European Commission President, Prof. Burton Lee, Lecturer, European Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Stanford School of Engineering, Robert-Jan Smits, Director General, European Commission, DG Research&Innovation, Richard Pelly, Chief Executive Officer of the European Investment Fund, Kristin Danielsen, EUREKA Chair, International Director of The Research Council of Norway, former president of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek, as well as the rapporteurs for Horizon 2020, the Structural Funds and the MFF.

The 5th European Innovation Summit will not only focus on the implementation of the new instruments, but also seek to identify the remaining barriers to innovation and how they can be overcome to 'make innovation happen' in Europe. A summit declaration, listing '5 Calls to Wake-up Europe” will be presented during the closing event.

Following the success story of the previous summits, when more than 300 speakers, including the presidents of the European Parliament and the European Commission, and some 3,000 innovation stakeholders from Europe and beyond engaged in the debate, more than 700 stakeholders, policy-makers, practitioners and academics are expected to attend.

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