Welcome and Opening (Start time 10:00 CET / 9:00 GMT)

• Inmaculada Figueroa, Deputy Vice Director General for Internationalization of Science & Innovation of the Spanish Ministry of Science & Innovation

ELI ERIC and Future Plans

• Allen Weeks, Director General of ELI ERIC

Portuguese involvement & research

• Luís O. Silva, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon

Spanish Involvement & Research

• Luis Roso, Director of the Spanish Center for Pulsed Lasers (CLPU)

Discussion / Q&A

Coffee Break

Industry Involvement - Portuguese experience, plans, technology platform, users & providers of instrumentation

• José Antão, Industrial Liasion Officer - CERN, ESRF, IFR & Agencia Nacional de Inovaçao

Industry Involvement - Spanish experience, plans, technology platform, users & providers of instrumentation

• Erik Fernández, Director of the Spanish Platform of Industry and Technology for Big Science Infrastructures

Education and Training - Portuguese experience, plans, courses, summer schools

• Marta Fajardo, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon)

Education and Training - Spanish experience, plans, courses, summer schools

• Luca Volpe, Director of CLPU Laser-Plasma Chair

Summary of Thematic Sessions

Roundtable / Discussion

• MODERATOR: Gonçalo Figueira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon

Closing Remarks