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A group of senior scientists, decision makers and key experts in the field of RTD national and regional programmes for SME are invited to be mentors of the project. This Advisory Board will provide an external review of the quality of the project’s processes and deliverables. The Advisory Board will meet twice when being invited to attend the kick-off and the final conference and will meet with consortium partners during the conferences. The Advisory Board’s role will be of particular importance in reviewing the annual and final reports to the Commission. Advisory Board members will also assist the project team by providing contacts and information.
The members of the Advisory Board have been chosen in order to link EUROPEER SME with parallel projects in the Member States and with European and international initiatives and activities in the field of science education and public understanding of science.
The list below comprises key experts which build up the Advisory Board. - Dr. Andre Schlochtermeier, Head of Unit, EU-Bureau of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, PT-DLR
Dr. Schlochtermeier is National Expert in the Marie-Curie Fellowship Programme Committee (1994 - 1996; 1999 - 2002), Delegate in the EU-Programme Committee "International Coop-eration" (1999 - 2002). He is National NCP-Coordinator for the EU-Framework Programme (since 1999), National Expert in the horizontal Programme Committees of the 6th European Framework Programme (since 2003) as well as National Contact Point for several EU-Programmes (since 1994): Marie Curie Fellowships, International Cooperation, Research Infrastructures, Coordination of national Policies and Programmes, New and Emerging Sci-ence and Technologies.
- Daniel Wagner, Responsible Manager for the clusters it.saarland and automotive.saarland at the Saarland Ministry of Economics and Labour
After his studies in business and economics, Daniel Wagner worked with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. August-Wilhelm Scheer at the Institute for Information Systems (IWi) at the University of Saarland as a researcher. His work was mainly focused on Workflow-Systems and in Service-Engineering. After 4 years he changed as an Innovation-Manager to the “Staff unit for innovation, research and technology” at the Saarland State Chancellery, where Prof. Scheer advised the Prime Minister concerning the development and implementation of Saarland’s Innovation Strategy. Daniel Wagner was responsible for the implementation of this Innovation Strategy in the field of information technologies. In 2004 the staff unit was transferred to the Saarland Ministry of Economics and Labour. Besides the cluster it.saarland, he is now also responsible for the cluster automotive.saarland at the Department of “Innovation Strategy and Cluster Policy”. The aim of the defined clusters in Saarland’s Innovation Strategy is to form, by the means of the close networking of all protagonists, associations in which innovations can be developed together and efficiently carried over into the commercial sector.
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- Mr. Christian Saublens, Director of the European Association of Development Agencies (EURADA)
Mr. Saublens is an experienced trainer and adviser to the EU, Central and Eastern European Regional Development Agencies in the fields of regional economic development and entrepreneurship. He has been heavily involved in the implementation of SME support programmes of Western and Eastern European RDAs and in supporting RDAs in their internationalisation process. He is responsible to the strategic development of EURADA and the management of pilot projects and European projects in the framework of EU projects in many fields (Enterprise, Innovation, PHARE, LEONARDO, ERDF…).
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- Dr. Federico Macaranas, Executive Director of AIM Policy Center, Asian Institute of Management (AIM)
The AIM Policy Center is one of the five Centers for Research and Management Excellence that the Asian Institute of Management houses. It is the public-policy think-tank of the Institute. AIM conducts research and advocates for policies that promote a business environment fostering a level playing field, globally competitive industries, and sustainable economic development. Recommendations are presented to the government as "private sector solutions to public problems".
- Jean M. J. Severijns, Internationalisation Economic Department , Province of Limburg
As a member of several committees he has a first hand inside information on the state of the art concerning regional and national RTD suppot programmes. Being a member of several national and international steering committees such as in the Regional Technology Plan and the (EU) Intergroup SME as well as the national working group of the DutchProvinces concerning innovation policy he will positively influence the EUROPEER SME project and support the dissemination of results into similar projects.
- Jozef Sluismans, Chairman of Stichting Strategisch Innoveren (Foundation for Strategic Innovation), Maastricht, the Netherlands
Mr. Sluismans is Research Fellow at the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He is member of the EU – Committee of the Regions Mutual Learning Platform on Regional Profiles in Innovation and Research. Mr. Sluismans has in-depth experience in research projects e.g. “ ‘Spiegel’-project: guiding SME’s to innovate and collaborate” as well as in evaluation studies like the “Evaluation of the Spiegel Study I and II LIOF / Syntens” – a project aimed at strategy consultancy to SME’s and evaluations of several innovation projects in Belgium on SME Innovation and Feasibility.
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