Academia Europaea Knowledge Hub - Wrocław

Key activities in 2013

Aleksandra Nowak & Katarzyna Majkowska

1. 25th ANNUAL CONFERENCE • General summary• People and institutions involved• Sponsorship

2. SEMINAR Early Modern Print Culture In Central Europe• General summary

• People involved

3. OTHER HUB ACTIVITIES• People involved• Other activities

SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES AND BUDGETARY ASPECTS

•16-19 September 2013 (+ private AE meetings)

•350 participants, with approx one third coming from Poland

•Nobel Prize, Lasker Award, Turing Award, Abel Award or Gödel Prize laureates, HL representation from EC and Polish communities

•10 outstanding young Polish scholars with the 2013 Burgen Scholarships

•Plenary lectures fully video-recorded

•Substantive part of the conference prepared by AE Program Committee members

•Logistics - team of Academia Europaea Wrocław Knowledge Hub, Convention Bureau – Wroclaw and the Head office of the AE in London

25th AE ANNUAL CONFERENCE in Wrocław (Poland)

General summary

25th AE ANNUAL CONFERENCE in Wrocław (Poland)

Branding

25th AE ANNUAL CONFERENCE in Wrocław (Poland)

Branding

25th AE ANNUAL CONFERENCE in Wrocław (Poland)

Travel & Accommodation

• Reimbursement of costs of transportation:-debate plenary speakers-plenary speakers-Burgen Scholars

• Accommodation provided for 106 conference participants

• Top hotels of Wrocław : Monopol, Sofitel, Art, and Europeum (+ PURO for Young Academy)

• Remaining guests provided with information regarding recommended hotels and discount codes for booking

• In total 55 flights covered: mostly from Amsterdam, London, Paris, Vienna, Frankfurt, Warsaw, Munich or Milan, also Newark and Houston

25th AE ANNUAL CONFERENCE in Wrocław (Poland)

Registration & Website

• Professional registration system• 7 categories of the participants (AE Member, YAE Member, Visitor, etc.)• Launched on 24 May 2013 and closed on 7 September 2013

• 124 speakers profiles with a short biographical note and a photo• Full programme with abstract to each session• Detailed social programme, accommodation, venues, acompanying events, etc.• Full gallery with more than 400 professional photos

•Program Committee•Lars Walloe – AE President•Roger Elliott – AE Board•Pieter Emmer – AE Board•Jerzy Langer – AE Board•Ole Petersen – AE Board•with advice of the Board, Section Chairs and Executive Secretary

•Organisation Committee•David Coates – AE, London•Magda Piasecka + team– Convention Bureau Wrocław•Aleksandra Nowak – AEKH, Wrocław•Katarzyna Majkowska-Kołyszko – AEKH, Wrocław•Jerzy Langer – AE, Wrocław, Warsaw•Volunteers (about 80 persons)

•City of Wrocław• Ewa Gołąb-Nowakowska + team – Foreign Relations Department• Maciej Litwin + team – Wrocław Academic Hub

•Wrocław Research Centre EIT+• Izabella Łatak + team

25th AE ANNUAL CONFERENCE in Wrocław (Poland)

People and institutions involved

SEMINAR Early Modern Print Culture In Central Europe

General Summary

• The Wrocław Semiars - initiative of Academia Europaea, University of Wrocław and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond

• Three-year project mainly for young researchers from Central and Eastern Europe.

• Early Modern Print Culture In Central Europe took place at the sametime as 25th Conference of Academia Europaea from 16 to 18 September 2013, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Wrocław

• The seminar gathered more than 60 persons, where of 24 participants presented their papers (e.g. Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Belarus, Russia, Germiany, Slovakia and Sweden)

SEMINAR Early Modern Print Culture In Central Europe

People involved

• Professor Pieter Emmer – AE Board supervision

• Professor Stefan Kiedroń – Wrocław University, chair of the Seminar

•Professor Siegfried Huigen – Wrocław University, now AE Member

•Doctor Barbara Kalla – Wrocław University, chair of the next Seminar

•Professor Marcin Cieński – Dean of the Faculty of Philology, Wrocław University

•Professor Beata Baczyńska – Head of Institute of Romance Philology, Wrocław University

•Aleksandra Nowak – AEKH

• with help of the Convention Bureau Wrocław and group of volunteers

OTHER HUB ACTIVITIES

People involved

• Aleksandra Nowak, Katarzyna Majkowska - Kołyszko (AEKH)

• Interns – P. Kozakiewicz, A. Malanda, P. Piątkiewicz, M. Ball

• Convention Bureau Wrocław – M. Piasecka, staff, volunteers

• Wrocław Academic Hub – T. Luty, M. Litwin

• AE Board – J. Langer, P. Emmer, L. Walloe and others

• University of Wrocław, College of Eastern Europe, Willy Brandt Center, Academy of Young Scholars and Artists, Wrocław University of Technology, etc.

OTHER HUB ACTIVITIES

Other activities

•Support ALLEA Board meeting•Support Board Meeting with Annual Conference of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE)•Support Graz Information Centre •Support Nomination Process

•Exhibition of young artists “Areas under Curves” •Summer School Programme•Visiting Lectures Programme •Ossolineum Lecures•Regimes of Memory series•Wrocław Seminars project•Tentative Emeritus Scholarship/Fellowship

•Internships

•Networking, contact with academic research institutions from Poland