Tuesday September 7^th, 2010: 11:30 – 13:00 

Europe must maintain its competitiveness and contribute to sustainable development through education and training that reflect the needs of tomorrow's "knowledge workers".

This session will address the following questions:

- Are our education and training systems (and existing European initiatives) delivering the appropriate skills for a sustainable knowledge-based economy?

- How to attract the most competent people to industry and research - in particular women - in areas like nanotechnologies, materials, manufacturing and engineering?

- How can manufacturing enterprises become "learning factories"?

- How can the industry's potential be exploited through innovation?

Chair

• Costas Kiparissides, University of Thessaloniki (Greece)

Speakers

• George Chryssolouris, Professor, LMS Director, Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems & Automation (LMS), University of Patras (Greece)

• Pasj Salhberg, Centre for International Cooperation and Mobility (Finland)
• Jos van Haaren, Senior Director Philips Research (Netherlands)
• Barbara Malic, Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)