LEAPS Incubator Workshop - November 12th @SOLARIS (Kraków)

Wednesday 12 Nov 2025, 09:00 → 21:00 Europe/Berlin

Conference room (SOLARIS Synchrotron)

 

The LEAPS Incubator workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss and design a framework to evaluate, select and structure LEAPS internal projects within the new structure of the LEAPS AISBL.

The LEAPS Incubator workshop will take place as a face-to-face only event on November 12th, from 9.00 to 17.00 at SOLARIS. It will be then followed by a workshop dinner at 19.00 at the Sukiennice Restaurant, on  Krakow´s Main Market Square (around 25 min by public transportation). 

This event is upon invitation only.

(The LEAPS plenary will take place on November 13th and 14th in a closeby location in Krakow: to register for the LEAPS Plenary please click here )

 

 

Accommodation
The LEAPS Incubator meeting will take place at the SOLARIS Centre, in the conference room. The LEAPS Plenary will be held at a separate venue, located only a 5-minute walk from SOLARIS.

For accommodation, we recommend booking at the Vanilla Hotel, which is conveniently situated near both SOLARIS and the Plenary venue. By using the reference  “LEAPS”, you can book a room at a special rate of 60 EUR per night, including breakfast. For bookings: email to info@aparthotelvanilla.pl

LEAPS INCUBATOR Workshop_ Agenda V3.0.docx

Opening and Welcome

SCOPE: From DIGITAL LEAPS to a Framework for internal projects

SESSION 1 - DIGITAL LEAPS Lessons Learned: Towards the Incubator Concept (presentations + discussion)

Presentation + Discussion

10:45 Coffee Break

SESSION 2 - LEAPS AISBL and internal projects: rules, governance, and funding schemes (with Q&A)

Presentation and Q&A

12:30 LUNCH BREAK

SESSION 3a - Designing a framework for LEAPS Internal Projects (key questions: “Which criteria should define a LEAPS internal project? How should funding decisions be made? What role should the Incubator play? What is the expectation from the incubator?”)

15:00 Coffee break

SESSION 3b: - Synthesis and Recommendations for the Incubator framework

SESSION 4 - Wrap-up: Proposals, priorities and next steps

Conclusions and agreed action points

19:00 WORKSHOP DINNER

Location: Sukiennice Restaurant, on the Main Market Square.

You can get there from SOLARIS by tram number 18, from the Kampus UP JP II stop to Poczta Główna — the ride takes about 22 minutes, plus around 5 minutes on foot to the restaurant. The restaurant is situated on the ground floor of the historic Cloth Hall (Sukiennice) in the Market Square.

SOLARIS will kindly distribute the local transport tickets for all participants of the workshop on Wednesday morning