Pre-conference dinner (by invitation only)

Registration

Educating for research integration and implementation, global panel discussion with Thieu Besselink (live in the Hague) and with speakers from Australia, Uruguay, Germany (webcast). Includes breakfast.

Interactive break - opportunity to meet other participants.

Official Welcome by the Dean Professor Jouke de Vries and Gabriele Bammer, global conference chair.

Why we need integration and implementation? Current issues in peace & security research and sustainability science. With Prof. Roel in ’t Veld and Dr. Esther Turnhout and Prof. Edwin Bakker.

Lunch

Parallel sessions on 1) concepts & methodology; 2) peace & security; 3) sustainability

Heuristics of Transdisciplinary Research by Christian Pohl (webcast from Canberra)

Break

Knowledge integration and implementation. What we can learn from socio-technical innovation in agriculture. Prof. Cees Leeuwis.

Do we need a new field of research on Research Integration and Implementation? Interactive debate with Prof. Cees Leeuwis and Prof. Jacqueline Broerse.

Drinks

Registration and coffee

Striking a balance between politicization and irrelevance. Do we need activist scientists? Interactive debate with Prof. Frank Miedema and Dorette Corbey. Moderated by Prof. Richard Griffiths

Break

Shale Gas in the Netherlands: The role of science in shaping the public debate. With Peter van de Wiel (Alderman in Boxtel) and Arnoud van Waes (Rathenau Institute)

An Introduction to Systems Thinking: Integration and Implementation in the Face of Wicked Problems by Gerald Midgley - webcast

Lunch

Parallel sessions on 1) concepts & methodology; 2) peace & security; 3) sustainability

Break (Option to change parallel session)

Parallel sessions on 1) concepts & methodology; 2) peace & security; 3) sustainability

Break

High-level closing plenary with Prof. Thea Hilhorst, Prof. Joris Voorhoeve. Moderated by Prof. Josee van Eijndhoven

Closing & Drinks