This breakout session at the 2020 Technology Forum Alpbach will focus on the role that applied research can play in the crisis. We will discuss the role of applied research before (e.g. foresight studies), during (e.g. vaccine research) and after (e.g. acceleration of change) crises. How can crises and challenges in general lead to more sustainable societies and economies and how can research, technology and innovation contribute to this?

Moderator

• Siegfried Reich
  Managing Director and Head of Research, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Salzburg

Speakers

• Klaus Pseiner
  Managing Director, FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency, Vienna
• Iris Filzwieser
  Managing Director, METTOP GmbH; President, Austrian Cooperative Research, Vienna
• Matthias Weber
  Head of Center Innovation Systems and Policy, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna
• Christiane Spiel
  Professor of Bildung Psychology and Evaluation; Head of Department of Applied Psychology: Work, Education, Economy, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna
• Eva-Maria Titz
  Policy advisor to Minister Leonore Gewessler, Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology, Vienna

Additional information is available at https://2020.alpbach.org/events/34