Kalkara, Malta, 5 - 8 May 2011
Sharing Knowledge across the Mediterranean (6)
The conference was organized with the support of the Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST) and took place at the Villa Bighi.
The discussions and the conclusions led to the following recommendations: RecommendationsSKFMalta2011
The list of participants is available here: SKFParticipantsMalta
The videos of the conference are available here: videos in EN
Program
Download the programOpening Session
09h00
Welcome address
Nicholas Sammut (MCST) et Robert Klapisch (SKF)
Robert KLAPISCH
Robert KLAPISCH entered the French CNRS after graduating from Ecole de Physique et Chimie de Paris. His PhD work, under René Bernas, a pioneer in Mass Spectrometry was about the nucleosynthesis of the rare light elements Lithium Beryllium and Boron and the puzzle of how they survive being burnt by fusion. This led him to using CERN accelerators and to participate in its advisory committees. He left CNRS in 1981as Herwig Schopper CERN DG asked him to become Director of Research (1981-1987). Carlo Rubbia the new DG (1989 to 1993) asked him to be his adviser and to boost the CERN Communication Policy. He organized the LEP Inauguration Ceremony in 1989 and directed a Pavilion at the 1992 Seville Expo. After the end of Rubbia’s mandate he co-authored the proposal for the Energy Amplifier, a new approach to nuclear energy (1993-1997). In 2002, he was appointed by President Chirac to the Committee preparing the “Charte de l’Environnement” which has since become a part of the French Constitution. As President of the French Association for the Advancement of Science (2000-2003), he advocated a North-South Scientific Dialogue between scientists from Europe and those from Less Developed countries, from the African Continent and the Middle East, as a privileged means to avoid the infamous “Clash of Civilisations”. This led him to set up in 2006 a dedicated “Sharing Knowledge Foundation” (SKF), which he chairs. President Sarkozy promoted him Officier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2007.
Robert Klapisch passed away on the 21 March 2020.
Energy for development
Moderator: Robert Klapisch
09h15
Natural gas: a game changer?
Bruno Weymuller, former Director for Strategy at TOTAL
10h00
Nuclear renaissance: status and perspectives
Jacques Bouchard, senior adviser to the CEO of the French Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique
10h45
The dawn of electric cars
Philippe Guédon, former CEO Matra automobiles (by video)
11h30
Round table: renewable and low-carbon energies in Maghreb: Needs in capacity building and research
Dominique Gentile, CNAM (France)
Tewfik Hasni (Algeria): Hasni_malta
Mohamed Rafiq (Morocco): rafik_malta
Mohamed Safi (Tunisia): safi_malta
Christophe Cristofari (France), Public Private partnerships: cristofari_malta_file
Abdel-Ilah Afifi (Maroc), Capacity building for renewable energies: Afifi_Malta
The indispensable mobility of scientists
14h00
Report on meeting at Brussels, 8th November 2010
Anissa Lardjane, MSH and Womedlaw, Paris
14h20
Activities of the “Peoples” committee of the European Commission
Jean-Patrick Connerade, Imperial College, London
Water
14h45
Introduction: the growing number of publications on renewable energies for desalination is a leading indicator
Moderator: Miriam Balaban, European Desalination Society, L’Aquila
Miriam Balaban
Miriam BALABAN is a graduate in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. She is the founder of Desalination, the international journal for desalting and purification of water, and was its Editor-in- Chief from 1966 to 2009. In 2009 she launched the monthly journal Desalination and Water Treatment to accommodate the growing flood of papers in the field and enable prompt publication. She is editor and publisher of the Desalination Directory, the international online database in desalination water reuse. She is the Secretary General of the European Desalination Society with its headquarters in Italy, where she organizes courses, conferences, and workshops in desalination. She is associated with the desalination program – Center for Clean Water and Energy – in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Desalination Association and Star of Honor from the President of Italy. She has been adviser to the African Academy of Science in establishing the journal “Discover” and establishing the African Association of Science Editors.
15h15
Desalination by Reverse Osmosis and Malta’s programme
Marc Muscat, CEO Malta Water Services Corporation
15h45
Status and opportunities in the development of Osmotic power
Stein Erik Skilhagen, Statkraft, Norway
16h45
Hydro-diplomacy: toward concrete results
Valerie Hoffenberg, Special Representative of France for the economic, cultural commercial, educational and environmental dimensions of the Peace process in the Middle East
17h30
Round table: middle east in extreme water stress
Abdelrahman Tamimi, Director of the Palestinian Hydrology Group, Palestine: tamimi_malta
Shimon Tal, ex-Israel Water Commissioner, Israel: tal_malta
Mousa Mohsen, Dean of Research, Hashemite University, Jordan
18h15
End of session
MCST Welcome Session
09h00
Addresses
Address by Hon. Dr. Lawrence Gonzi, Prime Minister of Malta: Gonzi_malta
Address by Hon. Dr. Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, MP, Chairman of EuroMediti and MCST
The Malta Scientific Organisation by Dr. Nicholas Sammut, Vice-Chairman and CEO of MCST: sammut_malta_1
Fighting the digital divide
Moderator: Guy Worsmer
Guy WORMSER
Guy WORMSER : chercheur scientifique né le 9 mai 1956. Ancien élève de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, agrégé de sciences physiques, docteur d’état de l’Université de Paris Sud (1984). Directeur de recherches de classe exceptionnelle au CNRS. Ancien directeur adjoint de l’Institut national de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des particules (IN2P3)(1999-2003) , ancien directeur du Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire d’Orsay (2005-2011), créateur et directeur de l’Institut des Grilles du CNRS (2007-2009), créateur du Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique France-Grilles(2006-2010). Guy Wormser a joué un rôle majeur dans la mise en place en France et en Europe de la grille de calcul pluridisciplinaire EGEE puis EGI qui a permis d’analyser de façon remarquablement efficace l’énorme volume de données produites auprès du LHC mais aussi de servir d’outil nouveau et puissant dans beaucoup d’autres disciplines scientifiques. Guy Wormser s’est aussi beaucoup attaché à promouvoir les réseaux académiques à haut débit, la grille et les technologies apparentées comme le cloud comme outils de choix pour la coopération scientifique et le développement entre le Nord et le Sud.
11h30
Progress of connectivity infrastructures in Sub-Saharan Africa
Aidan Baigrie, SEACOM, South Africa
12h00
National and regional research & education networks
Tusu Tusubira, CEO of Ubuntu-net
Tiemoman Kone, President of the Board of WACREN: kone_malta_file
Yousef Torman, Ju-Net and ASREN: torman_malta
International Research Programmes
Moderator: John Ellis
John ELLIS
John ELLIS is the Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics at King’s College in London. After his 1971 PhD from Cambridge University, he worked at SLAC, Caltech, and CERN (Geneva), where he was Theory Division Leader for six years. His research interests focus on the phenomenological aspects of elementary particle physics and its connections with astrophysics, cosmology and quantum gravity. Much of his work relates directly to interpreting results of searches for new particles. He was one of the first to study how the Higgs boson could be produced and discovered. He is currently very active in efforts to understand the Higgs particle discovered recently at CERN, as well as its implications for possible new physics such as dark matter and supersymmetry. He also studies possible future particle accelerators, such as the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) and future circular colliders, and is known for his relentless efforts to promote global collaboration in particle physics. John Ellis was awarded the Maxwell Medal (1982) and the Paul Dirac Prize (2005) by the Institute of Physics. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1985 and of the Institute of Physics in 1991, has several honorary doctorates and is an Honorary Fellow of King’s College Cambridge and of King’s College London. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2012.
14h00
“IASS, a springboard of ideas for sustainable development”
Carlo Rubbia, Scientific Director of IASS (Potsdam) and CERN
14h30
Physics of LHC at CERN
Overview, John Ellis, CERN: ellis_malta_file
Contribution of Moroccans physicists, Abdeslam Hoummada, Casablanca: Hoummada_Malte
Report on the “Ecole Avancée de Physique au Maghreb” at Taza, Driss Benchekroun, Casablanca: Benchekroun_Malta
Doctoral Students at CERN, e.g. Doctoral students fellowships of the Hassan II Academy, Patrick Fassnacht, CERN: Fassnacht_malta and Mohamed Gouighri, CERN: Gouighri_Malte_pdf
Other countries of the region: Nicholas Sammut, Malta: sammut_malta_2
Muhammad Alhroob, Palestine: Alhroob_Malta
Adel Trabelsi, Tunisia.
16h45
Status of SESAME programme
Chris Llewelyn-Smith, President of the SESAME Council for UNESCO
17h00
Round table of SESAME participants
Zehra Sayers, Turkey: sayers_malta
Uri Raviv, Israel: Raviv_malta
Hany Helal, Egypt
Medhat El-Halawany, Egypt: elhalawany_malta_file
17h45
ICTP contribution to integration of African Science
Bobby Acharya, ICTP, Trieste
18h15
End of session
Feeding the World
Moderator: Bernard Bachelier
09h30
African agriculture and productivity
Augustine Langyintuo, AGRA, Kenya
11h00
Aquaculture, a major source of proteins in arid countries
Gideon Oron, Ben Gurion University of the Neguev, Israel
Gamal El-Naggar, Director of the Central Laboratory for Aquaculture Research, Egypt: elnaggar_malta_file
Managing catastrophes
12h00
Earthquakes; Can we predict them? How should we prepare?
Philip England, Université d’Oxford
Special report
12h30
The Future of Mobile Internet in Egypt and Africa
Mark Shalaby, Director Legal Affairs WIND Telecommunicazioni S.p.A
Financial fluxes, diasporas and competitivity
Moderator: Henry Marty Gauquié
Henry MARTY-GAUQUIE
With Graduations in International Law and Political Science, he has dedicated his whole career to the European integration. In 1978, he begins by working for the French Prime Minister (Raymond Barre) in the legal department of the S.G.C.I., now S.G.A.E. From 1981 to 1989, he served at the European Court of Justice as First Secretary at Law of the French Judge, and at the European Court of Auditors as deputy-Legal Counsel and Director of the President’s Private Office. In 1989, he joins the European Investment Bank where he is appointed Spokesperson and Director of EIB Group’s Communication. In late 2003, he becomes the EIB Group Representative in Paris, also in charge with the institutional liaison with non-EU International Organisations. Although retired since end of 2016, he has kept various responsibilities such as Board Member of the French Institute for PPP(IGD), Paris, and Member of the Advisory Board of the FEMISE Network, Marseille and Cairo. He is also Member of the Scientific Councils of the Sharing KnowledgeFoundation, Geneva, of the Association Euromed-IHEDN, Marseille and Paris, and has joined the “Groupe d’analyse JFC Conseil”.Ordre du Mérite européen : Silver Medal.
14h30
The aftermath of the global crisis in the Mediterranean: the claim for democracy and new growth
Henry Marty Gauquié, Director of the Paris Bureau of the European Investment Bank: marty-gauquie_malta
Moncef Cheikh-Rouhou, Vice-President of the Cercle des Économistes Arabes: Cheikh-Rouhou_malta
15h30
Competitivity factors in emerging economies
Pascal Colombani, Chairman of the Board of Valeo, Senior adviser AT Kearney, ex CEO of CEA
16h00
The emergence of Subsahara Africa
Lionel Zinsou, CEO of PAI Partners
17h00
The Energy Policy of France
Catherine Cesarsky, High Commissioner for Atomic Energy, France
17h30
Discussion
18h00
End of session
Closing session
09h00
Preparation of recommendations
10h30
General discussion and recommendations
11h30
End of conference
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