Program

Monday, 19th February 2007 – 9.30 - 17.30 hrs
9.30 - 10.00 hrs	Welcoming Speech	Dr. Helga Lukoschat Managing Director, Femtec. GmbH, Germany
9.30 - 10.00 hrs	Opening Talk	Robert O'Meara Scientific Officer, European Commission, Belgium Michael Thielen Permanent State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Germany
10.00 - 11.00 hrs	Introduction: Science and Technology – A Subject for Movies and TV?	Dr. Marion Esch Research Director, Femtec. GmbH, Germany Dr. Andrew Millington Managing Director, OMNI Communications Ltd., Great Britain
11.00	15 min. Tea and Coffee Break
11.15 - 12.45 hrs	Panel Discussion: Science and Technology as an Opportunity for Exciting TV Drama and Positive Role Models for Women	Prof. Dr. Lucienne Blessing Institute for Construction, Micro and Medicine Technology, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Jessica Pope Executive Producer Drama, BBC, Great Britain Dr. Gabriela Sperl Managing Director, Sperl + Schott Film GmbH, Germany Doris J. Heinze Head of TV Plays, Movies, Cinema, and Theatre, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Germany Anja Kunze Femtec Student, Germany Chair: Prof. Dr. Barbara Schaeffer-Hegel Chairwomen of the Supervisory Board of Femtec Inc., Germany
12.45	1 hour Lunch Break
13.45 - 15.45 hrs	Parallel Panels:
	Panel 1
	Which Topics and Characters in TV-Drama – Single Films, Series, and Soaps - are Girls and Young Women Interested in? And What Might They Find Exciting?
	Introductory Talk	Dr. Maya Götz Head of IZI, International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television, Germany
	Statements and Discussion	Christoph Pellander Editor Marienhof, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Germany Hortense Ullrich Bestseller Writer, Children’s Books, Germany Dr. Doris Elster Leibniz Institute for Science Education, Germany Julia Brüker Femtec Student, Germany Chair: Solveig Wehking Wehking PR, Germany
	Panel 2
	How to Turn Exciting Scientific Issues into Entertaining TV-Drama–Single Films, Series, and Soaps?
	Introductory Talk	David Harsent Writer, Great Britain
	Statements and Discussion	Elke Ried Managing Director, Zieglerfilm Köln, Germany Katharina Uppenbrink Managing Director, Verband deutscher Drehbuchautoren e. V. (Association of German Writers), Germany Dr. Pablo Hagemeyer Managing Director, The Dox Medical Consulting TV/Film, Germany Dr. Sigrid Eeckhout European Synchroton Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France Chair: Martin Spiewak Journalist for Research, DIE ZEIT, Germany
	Panel 3
	Outlook on the Future: Key Technologies and Scientific Issues
	Statements and Discussion	Prof. Dr. Lucienne Blessing Institute for Construction, Micro- and Medicine Technology, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Dr. Elfriede Simon Hardware Development of Power & Sensor Systems, Siemens AG, Germany Prof. Dr. Burghilde Wieneke-Toutaoui Chairwomen “Women in Engineering Profession”, VDI – The Association of German Engineers Vice-President, Technische Fachhochschule Berlin – University of Applied Sciences – Germany Prof. Dr. Ina Schieferdecker Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Germany Dr. Vera Meyer Institute of Biotechnology, specialised on Microbiology and Genetics, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Chair: PD Dr. Martina Schraudner Strategische Forschungsplanung Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, (Strategic Planning, Fraunhofer Association)
15.45	15 min. Tea and Coffee Break
16.00 - 17.30 hrs	Final Panel Discussion: To Copy or to Innovate? Strategies and Chances for New TV Content	Volker Szezinski Head of Program Planning, Deputy Program Director, SAT1, Germany Birte Dronsek Head of Editorial Office Word II, Main Editorial Office Entertainment-Word, ZDF, Germany Daniele Jörg Deputy Head of Department, WDR Program Group Science, Germany Prof. Dr. Marc Drüner Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin (University), Germany Dr. Bettina Brinkmann Head of Formats, European Broadcasting Union Chair: Stephanie Barrett ZDF Dr. Marion Esch Femtec. GmbH, Germany
17.30	Farewell
	Concluding Remarks (with Drinks)