Chairperson: Christophe. Collette, LIGO scientific collaboration, ULiège and ULB
10:00 Edwin De Pauw, President of the Research Council Introductory remarks
of ULiège
10:10 Jean-René Cudell, co-president of the Belgian
The importance of the Einstein Telescope for Belgian science pdf
cosmoparticle network, ULiège
10:20 Job de Kleuver, Secretary-general of APPEC European Astroparticle Physics strategy with focus on Gravitational Wave ambitions pdf
10:35 Michele Oleo, Policy officer European Roadmap and approach of the ESFRI Forum pdf
Policy officer, department of Economy, Science &
Innovation, Flanders
10:45 Provincie Limburg and Nikhef Short movie on the Einstein Telescope NL FR EN (mov 437 Mb)
Allocution of Theo Bovens, King's Commissioner of the province of Limburg (mov 380 Mb)
10:55 Jo van den Brand, A European strategy for going from LIGO and Virgo to the Einstein Telescope pdf
Spokesperson of the Virgo Collaboration
11:25 Thierry Lagrange The business impact of major scientific infrastructures pdf
Head of the Industry, Procurement and Knowledge
Transfer department, CERN
11:55 Frank Linde Closing remarks pdf
Program Leader of the Dutch GW initiatives
12:00 Visit of various stands staffed by scientists and engineers (photos from BRF)
· Interferometry KUL
· Laser technology Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT, RWTH Aachen
· Virgo technologies Nikhef
· The space frontier Centre Spatial de Liège
· Vibration isolation ULiège/ULB
