Austrian Research Promotion Agency, Austria Michalis Tzatzanis is working at FFG/EIP as the Austrian the National Contact Point (NCP) for “Science with and for Society” in Horizon 2020 and has also been the SiS NCP in FP7. He brings a year-long experience in consulting and carrying out EU projects. Michalis holds a doctoral degree in Ecology from the Read more about Michalis Tzatzanis[…]

University of Bergen, Norway Roger Strand, Professor and former Director, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway. Adjunct Professor in RRI, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. Chaired the EC Expert Group on Indicators for RRI.

An independent expert on research and innovation policy. Retired senior policy advisor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Dr Jack Spaapen is an independent expert on research and innovation policy, in particular regarding questions about the societal impact of research. Per 1 September 2020, he is a retired senior policy advisor at the Royal Read more about Jack Spaapen[…]

Regional Development and Funding Council of Tampere Region, Finland. Tiina Ramstedt-Sen as a native regional developer, Tiina Ramstedt-Sen, M.Sc. (Admin) has a passion for innovation ecosystem development and for better use of funding to reach regional development goals. Through her role as regional contact person for Interreg programmes and working directly on public funding schemes, she has acquired Read more about Tiina Ramstedt-Sen[…]

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Emad Yaghmaei is senior consultant in YAGHMA and senior researcher at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at TU Delft. The emphasis of his research and his consulting works are on innovation and technology management of emerging technologies to identify and work on the social and sustainability impacts of Read more about Emad Yaghmaei[…]

Nordland Research Institute, Norway Nhien Nguyen is a Senior Researcher at Nordland Research Institute, Norway, and an Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management. She is also an Associate Editor of the journal The Learning Organization (Emerald). She holds a PhD from NTNU in the program Read more about Nhien Nguyen[…]

Leiden University, The Netherlands Ingeborg Meijer is a senior researcher at the at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University (the Netherlands). Her main goal is to make sure that society is able to use research by crossing disciplinary boundaries and collaboration with policy, funders, charities, citizens & patient organizations and Read more about Ingeborg Meijer[…]

Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe, Germany Susanne Bührer is a project manager and coordinator of the Business Unit Societal Change and Innovation at Fraunhofer ISI in Karlsruhe, Germany. Before starting work at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in 1996, she studied politics, sociology and history at the University of Stuttgart (Master of Arts) and Read more about Susanne Bührer[…]