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Brussels, Belgium - 29 September 2010

The meeting will take place at the ULB Solbosche Campus, Building S, 1st Floor, Avenue Jeanne - Johannalann 44, Brussels, Belgium, 1050.

For a detailed campus map and instructions on getting to the campus by car and public transport please click here. For  a more detailed public transport map please click here.

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The VPH Network of Excellence would like to invite all those involved with the VPH initiative to an all-hands meeting where key VPH  stakeholders will update the community on strategic activities and facilitate discussion on the general strategic directions for the VPH  community in the coming years. This public discussion will provide the basis for the 2010 update of the VPH Research Roadmap, the document coordinated by the  VPH NoE  to channel the views of the community and to inform European Commission policy for this field. This meeting will address the creation and implementation of the VPH Institute,  facilitate the consensus process on the ARGOS position paper - a new initiative to foster  transatlantic integration of the VPH effort in Europe and the US- as well as explore possibilities for the VPH Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Support Action and other VPH FET Flagship initiatives.

Preliminary Agenda - Wednesday, 29^th September, 2010

14:00-18:30    Annual Strategic Consensus meeting of the VPH Initiative.

Moderators: Peter Hunter and Marco Viceconti

14:00-14:30            VPH ToolKit. Keith McCormack, University of Oxford

14:30-15:00            VPH Infrastructures.  Peter Coveney, University College London

15:00-15:30            VPH Internationalisation. K. Marias and G. Stamatakos, ICS-FORTH

15:30-16:00            ARGOS Position paper. Marco Viceconti, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli

16:00-16:30            Break

16:30-17:00            VPH FET and FET Flagship.  Gordon Clapworthy, University of Bedfordshire

17:00-17:30            VPH Institute update.  Marco Viceconti, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli

17:30-18:30            Recommendations for Roadmap update.  Peter Hunter, University of Auckland

POLITICAL DEMONSTRATION INFORMATION FOR 29th SEPTEMBER

The European Trade Union Confederation is staging a European Day of Action on 29  September. This Day of Action follows a decision by the ETUC Executive Committee on 1 and 2 June. It will be made up of a Euro-demonstration in Brussels and trade union actions in the various European countries. The European trade unions will be demonstrating against the austerity measures adopted recently by many European countries, and to demand recovery plans in favour of quality jobs and growth. 80,000 people are expected to take part in this demonstration.

Please note that the political demonstration will not take place near the Solbosch campus where all meetings are taking place. However, you may experience some inconvenience in travel arrangements. The political demonstration ‘No to austerity’ will start in Gare Du Midi at 11.30am and then a procession will leave from the Gare du Midi at 13.00pm and will go to the European Commission  in Schuman to arrive by 15.00pm. The demonstration will end at 16.00pm.

Details of the demonstration can be found here

Whilst it is very difficult to predict a planned political demonstration like this – we are  advising people that if possible - to stay away from the route and area of the demonstration during this time.  The demonstration is likely to affect transportation. We would advise you to not go to the metro stations Gare du midi, porte de Hal, Hotel des Monnaies, Louise, Porte de Namur, Trone, Schuman and Merode during the period of the procession (13.00 – 15.00pm). We would also advise you to be aware that transport in Brussels may be very busy in the morning of the 29^th with people arriving to the political demonstration.

To view the route and map of where the political demonstration will take place please click here

For a detailed campus map and instructions on getting to the campus by car and public transport please click here. For  a more detailed public transport map please click here.