Saint-Genis-Pouilly, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Co-management of CERN IdeaSquare and EU projects manager for CERN Green Village Initiative
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Senior advisor at ScienceBusiness on EU innovation & research grants programmes and policies.
For almost 13 years I worked at Europe's leading grants consultancy called PNO Consultants. The company started in 1984, has about 300 employees and offices across Europe. I focussed specifically on European innovation grants (FP6, FP7 and H2020) in a variety of technology domains. My specialties were: ICT, security, health, transport, environmental sustainability (also through specialist-programmes like NER300, EEPR, LIFE etc.). My work consisted on helping universities, research institutes and many companies define their key-innovation projects, build project consortia and write and review technical grant proposals. Some examples of my activities are listed in the projects-section below. Typical clients included: CERN, Sintef, Unilever, university of Tampere, E.ON, GDF-Suez, university of Manchester, DLR, city of Amsterdam, IBA, university of Dresden, Thales NL, Océ (Canon), several Fraunhofer institutes, TU Delft, TU Eindhoven, VITO, NWO, EPFL.
I was also an elected member of the regional parliament of Limburg between 2007 and 2015 (I did not stand for re-election in 2015). Limburg is the southern-most province of the Netherlands. Capital of Limburg is the city of Maastricht. My party is the Dutch left-of-centre Social-Democratic party (PvdA). My focus areas as politician were: economic affairs & finance. Between 2007-2011 I also acted as vice-Chair of the political group in the regional parliament. In 2013 I became a member of the national party committee responsible for writing the party's election manifesto for the European Parliament elections 2014. Typical topics I was involved in and/or was the spokesperson during my time as politician: (*) financial rescue of Maastricht airport, (*) construction of the 27km long Buitenring Parkstad road infrastructure, (*) sale of the province's Essent shareholding to energy company RWE, (*) transformation of old industrial sites, (*) annual accounts of the province, (*) training programme for older unemployed to become technical operators, (*) CO2 capture & storage, (*) safety of LPG & other dangerous substances via rail through densly populated areas, (*) high-speed internet infrastructure, (*) development of a regional Smart Services Cluster, (*) development of the regional Chemelot Research campus.