INDUSTRIAL R&D

PARTNERSHIPS:
NEW RULES,
NEW OPPORTUNITIES

9 JULY 2019 | BRUSSELS

HOSTED BY
 Industrial R&D partnerships:
New rules, new opportunities

Moderator: Carlos Härtel, Special Advisor, Science|Business

9:00 Registration and welcome coffee

9:30 Welcome and opening remarks by Lorenza Badiello, Director, Delegation of the
P R O G R A M M E

Emilia Romagna Region to the EU, and Maryline Fiaschi, Managing Director,
Science|Business

9:40 Horizon Europe and partnerships: What’s currently on the table? What’s new?

Q&A with Peter Dröll, Director, Industrial Technologies, DG RTD, European
Commission. Followed by a group discussion.

10:20 Lessons learned from PPP practitioners

A group discussion with input from members of existing PPPs.

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Are IPCEIs reshuffling the cards of R&D partnerships?

12:15 Future technologies: recommendations from the industry

13:00 Networking lunch

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 LORENZA BADIELLO
DIRECTOR, DELEGATION OF THE EMILIA ROMAGNA REGION TO
THE EU
Lorenza Badiello is the director of the Emilia-Romagna Region Delegation to the EU.
Before her current role, she was head of ASTER EU Office (Emilia Romagna Technological
Development Agency) and prior to that, she held a post as a researcher for NOMISMA in
Bologna. Badiello had lectured at a number of European universities on the topic of EU
integration. She holds a MBA from Profingest, MA in international relations and political
strategy from the University of Kent and post graduate diplomas from the Universitè Libre
G U E S T S

de Bruxelles. Badiello was awarded the decoration of Cavaliere - Knight of the Order of
Merit of the Italian Republic in 2018.

STEPHANE BERGHMANS
VICE PRESIDENT ACADEMIC AND RESEARCHER RELATIONS
EU, ELSEVIER
In his position at Elsevier, Stephane Berghmans is responsible for building and further
developing relationships with academic institutions and EU representatives. He plays an
essential role in educating stakeholders in the European scientific and political landscape
on how Elsevier, and modern scientific information providers in general, can add value to
further developing projects and policy in these areas.
F E AT U R E D

PETER DRÖLL
DIRECTOR, INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES, DG RTD,
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Peter Dröll has been working in the European Commission for more than 20 years in
positions including financial control of the Joint Research Centre, enforcement of EU
environmental legislation, accession negotiations with Poland and coordination of the
environment negotiations with all accession countries, innovation policy and European
research area policy. He was a Cabinet member of enlargement Commissioner Günter
Verheugen and Head of Cabinet of the science and research Commissioner Janez Potocnik.
Dröll joined the Directorate-General Research and Innovation in 2010, where he was first
responsible for innovation and then 2016, for industrial technologies.

M A RY L I N E F I A S C H I
MANAGING DIRECTOR, SCIENCE|BUSINESS
Maryline Fiaschi is the managing director of Science|Business. After six years managing
EU education programmes with the European Commission, Maryline entered the media
business in 2007. She held business development positions at Shanghai Daily and EU
affairs media company EurActiv. She joined Science|Business in 2011 where she now
leads the company’s operations and growth strategy. She is also an external evaluator
for several EU higher education and research and innovation programmes. Maryline holds
degrees from Université La Sorbonne, Università di Bologna and Université de Louvain.

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 JAAP LOMBAERS
INNOVATION DIRECTOR, TNO; MEMBER, EXECUTIVE BOARD,
PHOTONICS21
Jaap Lombaers is innovation director of TNO, where he works in the fields of flexible
electronics (Holst Centre), thin-film photovoltaics (Solliance) and additive manufacturing /
3D Printing. He has co-founded many initiatives including thin-film photovoltaics operating
along the open innovation concept of Holst Centre (Solliance), the Brightlands Materials
Center focusing on polymer-based innovations, and the AMSYSTEMS Centre which
focuses on working with industries in the field of additive manufacturing / 3D printing.
Lombaers started his career as a researcher at TNO’s Human Factors institute, and now
he is a member of the executive board at Photonics21, vice-chairman of the Organic
G U E S T S

Electronics Association, member of the board of Solliance and of Brightlands Materials

Centre, member of the steering committee of Holst Centre, and member of EMIRI.

COLETTE MALONEY
HEAD OF UNIT, COMPETITIVE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY,
DG CNECT, EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Colette Maloney is head of the competitive electronics industry unit at the European
Commission’s DG CNECT. Prior to this, Maloney was Head of the photonics unit, whose
mission is to reinforce Europe’s industrial and technology leadership in photonics from
light sources like laser-based technology to light-based information processing, including
bio-photonics, organic photonics and photonic integrated components. Since joining the
European Commission in 1994, Maloney had held various positions including Head of the
cognitive systems and robotics unit, ICT for sustainable growth unit, and smart cities and
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sustainability unit.

EVDOXIA NERANTZI
GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COORDINATOR, MICROSOFT
Evdoxia Nerantzi is EU government affairs coordinator at Microsoft in Brussels. Prior to
this, Nerantzi was a Blue Book trainee at the Education Audiovisual and Culture Executive
Agency of the European Commission. Nerantzi received a Master’s degree in technology
and education from University College London, where she attended in parallel with courses
in political sciences at London School of Economics. She completed her Bachelor’s degree
in social sciences & humanities at the University of Thessaly in Greece.

MARK NICKLAS
HEAD OF UNIT, INNOVATION POLICY AND INVESTMENT FOR
GROWTH, DG GROW, EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Mark Nicklas is head of the innovation policy and investment for growth unit in the
European Commission’s DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs. His
unit leads the Commission’s renewed EU industrial policy strategy.From 2012 to 2016, he
was deputy head of the innovation policy for growth unit. Before that, he was assistant
to the European SME Envoy and Director-General for Enterprise and Industry. Prior to
joining the Commission in 2003, he held various posts in the telecommunications industry
in Germany.

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 D E M O S S PAT H A R I S
G U E S T S

HEAD OF UNIT, R&D&I, IPCEI AND ENVIRONMENT, DG COMP,

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Demos Spatharis heads the unit in the European Commission’s DG Competition in charge
of state aid policy and control in the areas of R&D&I, environment and employment.
Previously Spatharis headed a unit in DG Trade in charge of anti-dumping and anti-
subsidy investigations against unfairly low-priced imports. Before joining the Commission
he worked in the private sector.

B E R N D S T O WA S S E R
HEAD, EUROPEAN PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS, SANOFI
GERMANY
F E AT U R E D

Bernd Stowasser is global head of public-private partnerships alliance management at

Sanofi and head of alliance management at Sanofi Germany. He represents Sanofi at the
EFPIA Innovative Medicines Strategy Priority Working Group and participates in multiple
open innovation and ecosystem-related industry activities. In 2008, Stowasser was
appointed as senior director of prospective and strategic initiatives in Sanofi.

WA LT E R V E R M E I R E N
HEAD, TECHNOLOGY INTELLIGENCE AND SCIENTIFIC
INFORMATION, TOTAL
Walter Vermeiren is manager of scientific and technology intelligence in the corporate R&D
department of Total. He joined Total in 1994 and worked previously in the catalysis group
of Total Petrochemicals Research in Feluy, Belgium for 11 years, followed by a position as
business developer in the “base chemicals” department, and as head of new technologies
in the refining and petrochemical department. He holds several scientific publications and
patents in the field of petrochemicals and received the Total Petrochemical RDT award in
2005 and 2007.
M O D E R AT O R

C A R L O S H Ä RT E L
SPECIAL ADVISOR, SCIENCE|BUSINESS
Carlos Härtel is special advisor at Science|Business. Härtel, currently an independent
innovation-strategy advisor and chair of the supervisory board of GE Power AG, was
previously chief technology and innovation officer of GE Europe, and president and CEO
of the company’s German subsidiary. He was also, from 2013 to 2017, president of the
European Industrial Research Managers Association.

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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Lorenza Badiello, Director, Delegation of the Emilia Romagna Region to the EU
Stephane Berghmans, Vice President, Academic and Researcher Relations EU, Elsevier
Johan Blaus, Director Strategic Partnerships, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Silvia Bottaro, Senior Policy Officer, The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities
Viorika Dishnica, Research and Innovation Officer, Delegation of the Emilia Romagna Region to the EU
Peter Dröll, Director, Industrial Technologies, DG RTD, European Commission
Verena Fennemann, Senior Policy Advisor, Environment, Energy, Transportation, Fraunhofer
Maryline Fiaschi, Managing Director, Science|Business
Carlos Härtel, Special Advisor, Science|Business
Matti Hiltunen, Counsellor, Research and Innovation, Business Finland
Fiona Jamieson, Industry Partnerships & Commercialisation Executive, Imperial College London
Jaap Lombaers, Innovation Director, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO);
Member, Executive Board, Photonics21
Eirik Velle Wegner Lønning, National Contact Point – EIC, Innovation Norway
Colette Maloney, Head of Unit, Competitive Electronics Industry, DG CNECT, European Commission
Monica Mateu, Senior Advisor, Science|Business
Sivasegaram Manimaaran, Head, Brussels Office, Innovate UK
Sophie Muller, Director R&T Studies, Thales
Reijo Munther, Chief Advisor, Business Finland
Evdoxia Nerantzi, Government Affairs Coordinator, Microsoft
Mark Nicklas, Head of Unit, Innovation Policy and Investment for Growth, DG GROW, European Commission
Hugh O’Neill, Business Development and Innovation Manager, Trinity College Dublin
Georgeta Oprea, Executive Assistant, Toyota Motor Europe
Simon Pickard, Network Director, Science|Business
Vinny Pillay, Senior Science and Technology Representative, South African Mission to the EU
Mathias Rauch, Head, Brussels Office, Fraunhofer
Milena Richter, Head, Brussels Office, Sanofi
Juliane Rinas, Manager Government Relations, Bertelsmann
Demos Spatharis, Head of Unit, R&D&I, IPCEI and environment, DG COMP, European Commission
Bernd Stowasser, Head, European Public Private Partnerships, Sanofi Germany
Hideki Takamatsu, Technical General Manager, Toyota Motor Europe
Felix Uedelhoven, Senior Manager Government Affairs & Policy, GE Healthcare
Rolf Vermeij, Liaison Officer, Strategy and Policy EU Office, University of Twente
Walter Vermeiren, Head, Technology Intelligence and Scientific Information, Total
Bart Veys, Policy Officer, COST
Nicholas Wallace, Policy Editor, Science|Business
Declan Weldon, Head, Corporate Partnership and Knowledge Exchange, Trinity College Dublin
Olga Wessels, Brussels Representative, University of Twente

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