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Registration (1:00 p.m.)
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Opening (3:00/3:05 p.m.)
André Hurst, President, WKD Foundation
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Introduction to the Symposium (3:05/3:15 p.m.)
Pascal Couchepin, Swiss Federal Councillor, Head of the Department of Home Affairs
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Bridging the Knowledge Cultures in the Age of Innovation (3:15 / 3:25 p.m.)
Jàn Figel’, European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Multilingualism
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Scientific session 1
Chair : Hiroyuki Yoshikawa,
President, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
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Introduction : ”Two Cultures, one Human Mind” (3:25 / 3:35 p.m.)
Francis Waldvogel, President Emeritus of the Swiss Polytechnical Institutes, Program Director of the WKD
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Address (video) (3:35 / 3:45 p.m.)
Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino Research Professor in Entomology, Harvard University, USA
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“The Rules of the Game” of the first Symposium: Objectives and Importance of the Dialogue (3:45 / 4:00 p.m.)
Dame Julia Higgins, Professor of Polymer Sciences at Imperial College, London, Foreign Secretary and Vice President of the Royal Society, UK
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Break (4:00 / 4:15 p.m.)
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Keynote Lecture I : From Brain Dynamics to Consciousness: how Matter Becomes Imagination (4:15 / 5:15 p.m.)
Gerald M. Edelman, Nobel Laureate, Director of the Neurosciences Institute and President of Neurosciences Research Foundation, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
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Welcome cocktail and networking (5:30 p.m.)
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