Academia Europaea Knowledge Hub - Wrocław Key activities in 2013

1. AcademiaEuropaea • Knowledge Hub - Wrocław • Keyactivitiesin 2013 • Aleksandra Nowak & Katarzyna Majkowska

2. SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES AND BUDGETARY ASPECTS • 25th ANNUAL CONFERENCE • General summary • People and institutionsinvolved • Sponsorship • SEMINAR Early Modern Print Culture In Central Europe • General summary • Peopleinvolved • OTHER HUB ACTIVITIES • Peopleinvolved • Otheractivities

3. 25th AE ANNUAL CONFERENCE in Wrocław (Poland) General summary • 16-19 September 2013 (+ private AE meetings) • 350 participants, with approx one third coming from Poland • Nobel Prize,Lasker Award, Turing Award, Abel Award or Gödel Prizelaureates, HL representationfrom EC and Polishcommunities • 10 outstanding young Polish scholars withthe 2013 Burgen Scholarships • Plenarylecturesfullyvideo-recorded • Substantive part of the conference prepared by AE Program Committee members • Logistics- team of Academia EuropaeaWrocław Knowledge Hub, Convention Bureau – Wroclaw and the Head office of the AE in London

4. 25th AE ANNUAL CONFERENCE in Wrocław (Poland) Branding

5. 25th AE ANNUAL CONFERENCE in Wrocław (Poland) Branding

6. 25th AE ANNUAL CONFERENCE in Wrocław (Poland) Travel & Accommodation • Reimbursement of costs of transportation: • -debate plenary speakers • -plenary speakers • -Burgen Scholars • In total55 flightscovered: mostlyfromAmsterdam, London, Paris, Vienna, Frankfurt, Warsaw, Munichor Milan, alsoNewark and Houston • Accommodation provided for 106 conference participants • Top hotels of Wrocław : Monopol, Sofitel, Art, and Europeum (+ PURO for Young Academy) • Remaining guests provided with information regarding recommended hotels and discount codesfor booking

7. 25th AE ANNUAL CONFERENCE in Wrocław (Poland) Registration & Website • Professional registrationsystem • 7 categories of the participants(AE Member, YAE Member, Visitor, etc.) • Launched on 24 May 2013 and closed on 7 September 2013 • 124 speakersprofiles with a short biographical note and a photo • Fullprogrammewithabstract to each session • Detailedsocialprogramme, accommodation, venues, acompanyingevents, etc. • Fullgallerywithmorethan 400 professionalphotos

8. 25th AE ANNUAL CONFERENCE in Wrocław (Poland) People and institutionsinvolved • Program Committee • Lars Walloe– AE President • Roger Elliott – AE Board • Pieter Emmer – AE Board • Jerzy Langer – AE Board • Ole Petersen – AE Board • with advice of the Board, Section Chairs and Executive Secretary • OrganisationCommittee • David Coates– AE, London • Magda Piasecka + team– ConventionBureau Wrocław • Aleksandra Nowak – AEKH, Wrocław • Katarzyna Majkowska-Kołyszko – AEKH, Wrocław • Jerzy Langer – AE, Wrocław, Warsaw • Volunteers (about 80 persons) • City of Wrocław • Ewa Gołąb-Nowakowska + team – Foreign Relations Department • Maciej Litwin + team – Wrocław Academic Hub • Wrocław Research Centre EIT+ • Izabella Łatak + team

9. SEMINAR Early Modern Print Culture In Central Europe General Summary • The Wrocław Semiars - initiative of Academia Europaea, University of Wrocławand Riksbankens Jubileumsfond • Three-year project mainly for young researchers from Central and Eastern Europe. • Early Modern Print Culture In Central Europe took place at the same • time as 25th Conference of Academia Europaea from 16 to 18 September 2013, atthe Faculty of Philology, University of Wrocław • The seminar gathered more than 60 persons, where of 24 participants presentedtheir papers(e.g. Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Belarus, Russia, Germiany, Slovakia and Sweden)

10. SEMINAR Early Modern Print Culture In Central Europe Peopleinvolved • ProfessorPieter Emmer– AE Boardsupervision • ProfessorStefan Kiedroń – Wrocław University, chair of theSeminar • ProfessorSiegfried Huigen– Wrocław University, now AE Member • Doctor Barbara Kalla – Wrocław University, chair of thenextSeminar • ProfessorMarcin Cieński – Dean of theFaculty of Philology, Wrocław University • ProfessorBeata Baczyńska – Head of Institute of Romance Philology, Wrocław University • Aleksandra Nowak – AEKH • with help of the ConventionBureau Wrocław and group of volunteers

11. OTHER HUB ACTIVITIES Peopleinvolved • Aleksandra Nowak, Katarzyna Majkowska - Kołyszko (AEKH) • Interns – P. Kozakiewicz, A. Malanda, P. Piątkiewicz, M. Ball • Convention Bureau Wrocław – M. Piasecka, staff, volunteers • Wrocław Academic Hub – T. Luty, M. Litwin • AE Board – J. Langer, P. Emmer, L. Walloe and others • University of Wrocław, College of Eastern Europe, Willy Brandt Center, Academy of Young Scholars and Artists, Wrocław University of Technology, etc.

12. SupportALLEABoardmeeting • SupportBoard Meeting with Annual Conference of the YoungAcademy of Europe (YAE) • Support GrazInformation Centre • Support Nomination Process • Exhibitionof youngartists “Areas under Curves” • Summer School Programme • Visiting Lectures Programme • OssolineumLecures • Regimes of Memoryseries • Wrocław Seminarsproject • TentativeEmeritus Scholarship/Fellowship • Internships • Networking, contactwithacademicresearchinstitutionsfrom Poland OTHER HUB ACTIVITIES Otheractivities