HISTORY OF ACTIVITIES 2017

Admittance as a European numerary academician: Salvatore Tomaselli

Relazioni conflittuali nelle aziende familiari: determinanti, tipologie, evoluzione, esiti (“Conflicting relationships in family businesses: determinants, types, evolution and outcomes”)
Answering speech: Miguel Ángel Gallo Laguna de Rins

Place: The Main Hall of the Foment del Treball building

Admittance as a corresponding academician: Manuel Puig Costa

Sobre el coleccionismo. Introducción a la historia (“About collecting: an historical introduction”)
Answering speech: Pedro Clarós Blanch

Place: The Main Hall of the Foment del Treball building

Admittance as a numerary academician: Jaume Armengou Orús

Teoria de la semblança i govern universitari (“Theory of similarity and university governance”)
Answering speech: Eugenio Oñate Ibáñez de Navarra

Place: The Main Hall of the Foment del Treball building

The debates of the Royal European Academy of Doctors Series of conferences: “The Future of the European Union”

Second conference: The Internal Threat to the European Union Speakers:

• Benita Ferrero-Waldner, former Federal Foreign Minister of the Republic of Austria – former European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy
• Santiago José Castellà Surribas, numerary academician, RAED
• José M. Gay de Liébana, numerary academician, RAED – professor of the University of Barcelona

Discussions chaired by: Lluis Uría

Admittance as a numerary academician: Mariano Monzó Planella

Història de la investigació oncològica. Retorn als orígens (“History of oncological research. return to its origins”)
Answering speech: Joaquim Gironella Coll

Place: The Main Hall of the Foment del Treball building

The debates of the Royal European Academy of Doctors Series of conferences: “Personalities from History”

Second conference: Joan Clarós va canviar la història de Catalunya a la Guerra del Francès 1808-1814. (How Joan Clarós changed the course of Catalan history during the war with France, 1808-1814”).

Speakers:

• Leticia Darna, Doctor of History. Corresponding academician of the Royal Matritense Academy of Heraldry and Genealogy.
• Domingo Neuenschwander, Baron of Prado Hermoso
• Oscar Uceda, Degree in History

Discussions chaired by: Pedro Clarós Blanch, numerary academician of the RAED.

Place: The Main Hall of the Foment del Treball building

Admittance as a numerary academician: Laureano Molins López-Rodó

Diagnóstico precoz del Cáncer de Pulmón: El Cribado, una herramienta para avanzar en su curación. (“Early diagnosis of lung cancer: screening, a tool for advancing its treatment”)
Answering speech: Pedro Clarós Blanch

Place: The Main Hall of the Foment del Treball building

Admittance as a numerary academician: Felio Vilarrubias Guillamet

Honor crédito comercial y la exceptio veritatis (“Honesty, commercial credit and the test of truth”)
Answering speech: Pedro Clarós Blanch

Place: The Main Hall of the Foment del Treball building

Admittance as a numerary academician: Nicole Mahy Gehenne

La vida és una llarga oxidació (“Life is a long process of oxidation”)
Answering speech: Rafael Blesa González

Place: The Main Hall of the Foment del Treball building

The debates of the Royal European Academy of Doctors Book presentation: Federal Systems. An international comparison

Speakers:

• Celina de Souza, researcher at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
• Roland Sturm, Professor of Political Science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
• Santiago José Castellà, numerary member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors. Professor of International. Law and International Relations, Academic Director of the Tarragona Smart Mediterranean City university chair.

Moderator: Teresa Freixes, numerary member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors, Professor of Constitutional Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

The debates of the Royal European Academy of Doctors Series of conferences: “Discussing the family firm”

First conference: The family firm: beyond the third generation Organised by: National Employment Promotion (Fomento del Trabajo Nacional), IESE, the Family Business Institute (Instituto de la Empresa Familiar) and the Royal European Academy of Doctors. Speakers:

• Juan Francisco Corona, numerary academician of the RAED, director general of the Family Business Institute.
• Josep Tàpies, doctor of industrial engineering, IESE professor of family business entrepreneurship.
• José Manuel Calavia, numerary academician of the RAED, professor of mercantile law at the University of Barcelona.

Discussions chaired by: Joaquín Tornos, chairman of the National Employment Promotion legal committee, professor of administrative law at the University of Barcelona.

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The mortgage situation in Spain after the judgements of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Spanish Supreme Court Organised by the Centre for Research into and Development of Property-Register and Commercial Law (known by its Spanish initials CIDDRIM) and the Royal European Academy of Doctors. Speakers:

• Fernando P. Méndez González, Director of Spanish International Relations in the Fields of Property and Commerce
• Rafael Arnáiz Ramos, Director of the Property-Register Study Service of Catalonia
• Manuel Ángel Martínez García, notary public
• Antonio Recio Córdova, President of the Provincial High Court of Barcelona

Moderator: Alfonso Hernández-Moreno, numerary member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors, Director of the CIDDRIM.

Admittance as a numerary academician: Dra. Nuria Vallcorba Plana

Salud periodontal y salud general: la alianza necesaria
Answering speech: Dr. Jaime Rodrigo de Larrucea

Admittance as a numerary academician: José Manuel Calavia Molinero

Gobierno y gestión en la empresa familiar 
Answering speech: Joan-Francesc Pont Clemente

The debates of the Royal European Academy of Doctors Series of conferences: “Personalities from History”

Third conference: Five hundred years since Luther (1517 -2017) Speakers:

• Josep Castanyé, professor emeritus of the Ateneu Universitari Sant Pacià (AUSP), a Catholic theologian specialising in German Protestant theology and a translator into Catalan of German Protestant theologians.
• Salvador de Brocà, numerary academician of the RAED, doctor in philosophy.
• Macià Riutort, full professor of the department of English and German studies at Rovira i Virgili University, a philologist and historian specialising in the evolution of the modern German language and Luther’s German translation of the Bible.
• Rev. Holger Luebs, rector of the Church of the German-speaking Protestant Community of Barcelona, a specialist in Lutheran theology.

Discussions chaired by: Josep-Ignasi Saranyana, numerary academician and chairman of the Human Sciences Section of the RAED.

Admittance as a numerary academician: Daniel Turbón Borrega

Darwin, Wallace y la Biología del Desarrollo Evolutiva ( Darwin, Wallace and the biology of evolutionary development)
Answering speech: Felio Vilarrubias Guillamet

Place: The Main Hall of the Foment del Treball building

The debates of the Royal European Academy of Doctors Series of conferences: “Discussing the family firm”

Second conference: The family firm: encouraging its survival (research project) Organised by: IESE and the Royal European Academy of Doctors Speakers:

• Ricardo Aparicio, IPADE, Pan-American University, Mexico.
• Gonzalo Gómez, INALDE, University of la Sabana, Colombia.
• Guillermo Perkins, IAE, Austral University, Argentina.
• Salvatore Tomaselli, University of Palermo, numerary academician of the RAED.
• Arlette Urrea, University of Costa Rica.

Discussions chaired by: Miguel Ángel Gallo, numerary academician and chairman of the Senate of the Royal European Academy of Doctors. IESE.

Admittance as honorary academician: Edmund Phelps, Nobel Prize in Economics

Answering speech: Maria José Esteban Ferrer

First Scientific Meeting: A convergence of the ways: Science and Business. RAED – IESE -ULPGC

Date: from 8 to 11 June 2017 Place: Fuerteventura, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Scientific programme:

Inaugural speech: Serendipity in Science, Sheldom L. Glashow, Nobel Prize in Physics Introduced by Catalina Ruiz, Professor of Physics at the University of La Laguna and winner of the Canary Islands Award for Research.

Round-table discussion:
Economics, politics and business: uncertainties, risks and opportunities; Hisham El Sherif, chairman of Nile Capital Investment; José María Gay, academician of the RAED; Jose Manuel Calavia, academician of the RAED; Nilo García Manchado, entrepreneur; Lorenzo Gascón, economist and academic of the RAED; Frédéric Borràs, academician of the RAED. Chaired by Claudia Arteaga, journalist and lecturer in the politics of communication.

Speech:
The impact of GM food on the alleviating of world hunger Richard Roberts, Nobel Prize in Medicine Introduced by Lluis Serra, Professor of Public Health at ULPGC

Speech:
International cooperation applied to specific, measurable objectives Luis López, thoracic surgeon at SCS, professor at ULPGC and winner of the Canary Islands Award for International Cooperation
Corner of excellence: An excellent opportunity to chat in a relaxed and friendly with some of the guests present at different places around the hotel.

Debate: What use is science to business? Pure vs applied science

Participants:
Sheldom L. Glashow, Nobel Prize in Physics;
Richard Roberts, Nobel Prize in Medicine;
José María Baldasano, King Jaume I Environmental Award;
Sonia Fernández-Vidal, lecturer at UAB and educator;
Juan Ruiz Alzola, professor at ULPGC;
Jaume Armengou, academician of the RAED.

Chaired by: Jordi Marti, academician of the RAED.

Speech:
A history of tenacity: the discovery of the structure of the ribosomes

Speaker:
Ada Yonath, Nobel Prize in Chemistry;
introduced by Cecilia Kindelan, Associate Director of the MBA Programme and Director of the International Exchange Programme of IESE.

Round-table discussion:
Technology and sustainable development

Participants:
Juan Ruiz, professor at ULPGC;
Luis López, Director of International Cooperation at SCS;
Catalina Ruiz, professor at ULL;
Lluís Serra, professor at ULPGC;
Josefa de la Rosa, Director of CUCID ULPGC.

Chaired by: Mari Àngels Calvo, academician of the RAED

Round-table discussion: The world’s new political scene: threats and forecasts

Participants:
Walter Lichem, former ambassador of Austria; Rosalía Arteaga, former president of Ecuador;
Inocencio Arias, former ambassador of Spain;
Ernst Iten, former ambassador Switzerland;
Joaquín Almunia, former European Commissioner.
Dr. Luis Alberto Lacalle, former president of Uruguay.

Chaired by: Claudia Arteaga, journalist and lecturer in the politics of communication

Admission as Numerary Academician: José Ramón Calvo Fernández

Tobacco or health: children do not choose Answering speech: Jordi Martí Pidelaserra

Admission as Honorary Academicians

• Sheldon L. Glashow, Nobel Prize in Physics Introduced by Dr. José Maria Gay
• Richard Roberts, Nobel Prize in Medicine Introduced by Dr. José Manuel Calavia
• Ada Yonath, Nobel Prize in Chemistry Introduced by Dr. José Luis Salido
• Luis Alberto Lacalle, former president of Uruguay. Introduced by Dr. Xabier Añoveros

Debate: Public economy vs market economy

Participants:
Ahmad Ranema, lecturer at IESE;
Jaime Llopis, lecturer at IESE;
Joaquim Vila, lecturer at IESE;
Miguel Ángel Gallo, academician of the RAED and lecturer at IESE;
Ginés de Rus, professor at ULPGC;
Francisco Javier Llovera, professor at UPC.

Chaired by: Juan Francisco Corona, Director General of the Family Business Institute and academician of the RAED.

Admission as Honorary Academician: Finn Kydland, Nobel Prize in Economics

Keynote address: José Ramón Calvo Fernández

Place: Main hall of the Fomento del Trabajo building

Admittance as a numerary academician: Montserrat Casanovas Ramon

El asesoramiento financiero, la figura del del Asesor Financiero y de las E.A.F.I.s
Answering speech: José Maria Gay de Liébana Saludas

Concert by pianist Samira Tabraue

Place: Main hall of the Fomento del Trabajo building The Academy’s summer dinner

Admittance as numerary academicians: Lluís Serra Majem and Javier Aranceta Bartrina

Dieta mediterránea: una visión global (The Mediterranean diet: a global view)
La nutrición comunitaria en el siglo XXI (Community nutrition in the 21 century)

Answering speech: José Ramón Calvo Fernández and Maria Àngels Calvo Torras

Place: The Main Hall of the Foment del Treball building

Third International Event. European Conference on Interdisciplinary Research: the evolution of science in the twenty-first century

• Admittance as honorary academicians of three Nobel laureates:
  • Erwin Neher, Nobel Prize in Medicine
  • Cristóbal Pissarides, Nobel Prize in Economics
  • Jerome Isaac Friedman, Nobel Prize in Physics
• The RAED and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
• Presentation of papers by the academicians present:
  • Subject area 1: Social Sciences and Human sciences.
  • Subject area 2: Health sciences and Biomedicine.
• Publication of a monograph edition of the RAED journal containing the conference speeches.
• Publication of an edition of the RAED journal containing a collection of “homages”.

Place: Baltic region: Copenhagen, Stockholm, St Petersburg.

Admittance as a numerary academician: Borja Corcóstegui

“La Conquista Del Fondo Del Ojo”
Answering speech: Pedro Clarós Blanch

Admission as Numerary Academician: Juan Trias de Bes

Barcelona, urban gallery
Answering speech: Jaime Rodrigo de Larrucea

Place: Main hall of the Fomento del Trabajo building

Admission as Corresponding Academician: Jesús Gerardo Sotomayor Garza

Speech: The influence of Spanish law in Mexico
Answering speech: Jordi Martí Pidelaserra

Place: Hall C of the Fomento del Trabajo building

Admission as Corresponding Academician: Joan Iglesias Capellas

Tax crime and the penal process: a timeline of misunderstandings
Answering speech: Emili Gironella Masgrau

Place: Main hall of the Fomento del Trabajo building

The debates of the Royal European Academy of Doctors Series of conferences: “Personalities from History”

Fourth Conference: Centenary of the Nobel Prize: Camilo José Cela Speakers:

• Julio Pérez Cela, Family (nephew) of the Camilo José Cela
• Adolfo Sotelo Vázquez, Professor of History of Spanish Literature at the University of Barcelona. Specialist in Camilo José Cela work.
• Marta Cristina Carbonell, Senior Professor of the History of Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature at the University of Barcelona. PhD in Hispanic Philology

Discussions chaired by : Xabier Añoveros Trias de Bes, numerary academician of the Royal European Academy of Doctors

Place: The Main Hall of the Foment del Treball building

The debates of the Royal European Academy of Doctors Series of conferences. Human Sciences Section

First Conference: Un apropament als conceptes d’infinit (“Approach of concept of infinite”)

Speakers:

• David Jou Mirabent, Numerary academician of RAED and Professor of Physics of the UAB.
• Pilar Bayer Isant, Numerary academician of RAED y Professor of Algebra of the University of Barcelona.
• Antoni Prevosti Monclús, Doctor in Philosophy and teacher of the University of Barcelona.
• Josep-Ignasi Saranyana Closa, numerary academician and chairman of the Human Sciences Section of the RAED.

Discussions chaired by: Daniel Turbón Borrega, Numeray academician of RAED and Professor of Physical Anthropology.

Place: Main hall of the Fomento del Trabajo building

Admission as Honorary Academician: Lluis Martínez Sistach, Cardinal of Barcelona

Laïcitat i laïcisme en l’occident europeu
Answering speech: Francesc Torralba Roselló

Place: Main hall of the Fomento del Trabajo building

Piano Concert by Cristina Casale

Place: Palau de la Música Catalana (Petit Palau). C/ Palau de la Música, 4-6 – Barcelona
Time: 20:00h

Admission as Corresponding Academician: Lluis Pons Puiggròs

Lo disruptivo y el futuro: tecnología y sociedad en el siglo XXI
Answering speech: José Ramón Calvo Fernández

Place: Main hall of the Fomento del Trabajo building

Christmas dinner of the Royal European Academy of Doctors

Place: Círculo Ecuestre. C / Balmes, 169 Bis, 08006 Barcelona
Time: 20.00h