Our People
The Team
More than just day-to-day administration, our managing team is committed to integrity and excellence.
Through collaboration and strategy, they implement and monitor EIT RawMaterial projects, events and programmes.
Business Development and Fundraising
Education
Finance, Operations and Compliance
Steering Committee
Within EIT RawMaterials, each Innovation Hub is locally supported by a Steering Committee. The committees consist of partner representatives, in each Innovation Hub. The Steering Committees provide guidance related to strategy and business planning, events planning, company policy and objectives, budgetary control, resource allocation and similar matters. Each Steering Committee is led by a Steering Committee Chair.
The present chairs are:
- Tarja Laitinen, VTT, Region Baltic Sea
- Etienne Bouyer, The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Region Central
- Prof. Katerina Adam, NTUA, Region East
- Maria Wallin, NTNU, Region North
- Francisco “Patxi” Javier Elorza, Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), Region South
- Kamila Mascart, UGhent, Region West
Intellectual Property Committee
On 25 September 2015, the General Assembly of EIT RawMaterials e.V. unanimously approved the IP Committee of our Innovation Community. EIT RawMaterials gratitude goes out to them for their continued contributions and support.
The mandate of the IP Committee includes, amongst others things, advising the General Assembly, the Executive Board and the Management Team of EIT RawMaterials regarding any sort of IP issues that are related to the management of our KIC (Knowledge and Innovation Community) and of the projects of our partners. The Committee also supports the further development of the activity-specific IP rules, which will be communicated to our KIC ecosystem as soon as possible.
The present chairs are:
- Tomi Erho Aalto University, Innovation Hub Baltic Sea
- Christoph Wiktor Schureck, Fraunhofer, Innovation Hub Central
- Karin Rehatschek, Montanuniversität Leoben, Innovation Hub East
- Göran Tuomas, LKAB
- Donata Folesani, Aster, Innovation Hub South
- Merlijn Bazuine, TU Delft, Innovation Hub West
Education Committee
The present chairs are:
- Chair of the EIT RawMaterials Education Committee: Sibila Borojević Šoštarić, Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb, Region East
- Kaisa Hansen, Head of Startup Centre, TalTech University, Region Baltic Sea
- Åsa Kassman Rudolphi, Head of Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala University, Region North
- Franco Bonollo, Full Professor of Metallurgy at the Department of Management and Engineering, Padova University, Region South
- Urs Peuker, Professor at TU Bergakademie Freiberg