Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Experienced Policy Maker and Program Coordinator with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration and transnational collaboration. Skilled in Systemic Transition Management, Innovation Policy and Programs, Development of Smart Energy Systems. He has a technical background as communication engineer.
The Clean Energy Transition Partnership is a transnational joint programming initiative to boost and accelerate the energy transition, building upon regional and national RDI funding programmes. The Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETPartnership) is a multilateral and strategic partnership of national and regional RDI programmes in European Member States and Associated Countries with the aim to contribute to the implementation of the SET Plan. The CETPartnership addresses the challenge of clean energy transition through coordinating national and regional research, development and innovation strategies, programmes, activities and stakeholders. Initiated under the 10th European EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon Europe (2021-2027), it also brings together the European Commission and public partners, addressing some of Europe’s most pressing challenges and contributing to reduce the fragmentation of the research and innovation landscape in the EU. There is agreement among all interested CETPartnership countries that the CETPartnership shall foster challenge driven research, development and innovation that stimulate transition and amplify the cooperation of research with “problem owners“ or “need owners” (potential buyers, procurers and users of solutions). This transformative approach in RDI is mirrored in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for the CETPartnership in the objectives and expected impacts of the CETPartnership the process to develop the SRIA as well as the RDI challenges to be addressed. By its highly transformative ambition the CETP delivers to the EU climate ambition and the new European Research Area as higher level policy goals and builds interfaces on European and international level.
From local trials towards a Smart Energy Systems knowledge community. The Joint Programming Platform Smart Energy Systems is a cooperation of 30 public funding programs from 23 countries to promote multilateral smart energy systems research, development and demonstration. Its goal is to support transnational, crossectoral, multidisciplinary, cooperative projects. It organises the learning among projects, national and regional programs and the European knowledge base and is actively contributing to the European Strategic Technology Plan (SET-Plan) www.eranet-smartenergysystems.eu
In the European SET- Plan working group for SET-Plan Key Action 4 on Energy Systems and Networks, representatives and experts from European countries together with invited European Technology and Innovation Platforms in 2017 developed the SET-Plan Action 4 implementation plan. The implementation plan was endorsed by the SET-Plan Steering Group and shall lay the ground for the joint implementation of identified Innovation Actions by member states and industry.
The National Stakeholder Coordination Group (NSCG) is a sounding board and exchange platform for national R&I stakeholders in the area of smart energy systems and networks, enabling them to contribute actively and in a coordinated way to the goals as European SET-Plan. The NSCG addresses national R&I policy makers, R&I funding program managers, key research institutes (typically members of EERA), R&I platforms (“Technology Platforms” or similar – typically consisting of grid operators, technology providers, R&D-institutes) and experts from regulators. It provides a framework for exchange and coordination among national stakeholders as well as with the working groups of ETIP SNET or other relevant ETIPs. The group shall reflect and comment on the ETIP activities from a national stakeholder´s perspective. The NSCG is organised by european member states, supported by ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus, additionally facilitated by the European Commission and ETIP SNET. The European Technology and Innovation Platform “Smart Networks for the Energy Transition” (ETIP SNET) European Technology & Innovation Platforms (ETIPs) have been created by the European Commission in the framework of the new Integrated Roadmap Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) by bringing together a multitude of stakeholders and experts from the energy sector. The ETIP Smart Networks for Energy Transition (SNET) role is to prepare consolidated stakeholder views on Research and Innovation to European Energy Policy initiatives in order to guide Research, Development & Innovation (RD&I) to support Europe’s energy transition. More specifically, its mission is to set-out a vision for RD&I for Smart Networks for Energy Transition and engage stakeholders in this vision, prepare and update the Strategic Research and Innovation Roadmap, and provide input to the SET Plan action 4 which addresses the technical challenges raised by the transformation of the energy system. (http://www.etip-snet.eu)