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Francesco Matteucci

Francesco

Biography

EIC Programme Manager for advanced materials for energy & environmental sustainability

Francesco is an innovation manager with 20 years of experience spent as a researcher in materials science, as a Corporate R&D Manager within the field of technologies for renewable energy production and storage, and as an intermediary of knowledge trying to exploit the research results within the field of energy and environment. As R&D Corporate manager, he also cofounded and directed several start-ups and joint-labs managing public-private partnerships.

As a facilitator of knowledge exploitation (IoK), he co-managed publicly funded projects, as well as Emilia Romagna Climate-KIC Innovation Centre, Dhitech Living Lab on Nanotechnologies, Emilia-Romagna Greentech Clust-ER. Francesco acted as scientific expert within the Vanguard Initiative ADMA Pilot, reviewer of research projects, co-authored over 30 scientific papers, 5 patents, and was Visiting Professor at the University of Ferrara as well as speakers in many conferences and workshops.

Start date: October 2020

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Outreach activities 2022 & 2023

  1. 28-30 June
    Bioremediation Conference
    • Speaker at the session entitled EIC Transition Challenge on Environmental Intelligence
    • More information available here
  2. 27 June 2023
    International Flow Battery Forum
    • Speaker at the session entitled EIC strategy in the Energy storage
    • Full agenda available here
  3. 16 June 2023
    QMASS (Quantum and Advanced Materials technologies for a Sustainable Society Research Centre), Cambridge (UK)
    • Invited Lecturer at the talk Innovation Journey of Advanced Materials for Energy
    • More information available here
  4. 26 June 2023
    Innovative Advanced Materials Exhibition
    • Co-organised by EuroTech
    • More information available here
    • Streaming available here

     

  5. 15 June 2023
    Hydrogen Summit, London (UK)
    • More information available here
  6. 14 June 2023
    SUPEERA Final Event
    • Participation in the roundtable Bringing R&I and industry together for innovation uptake
    • Online event
    • More information available here
  7. 8 June 2023
    Seawater sourcing for renewable Hydrogen and Chemicals, Brussels (BE)
    • More information available here
  8. 6 June 2023
    EnerGreenDeal - Start-up events, Brussels (BE)

     

    • 1-to-1 Meeting with selected SMEs
    • More information available here
  9. 22 May 2023
    Workshop on Circular desalination
    • More information available here
  10. 1 June 2023
    European Materials Research Society Spring Conference, Strasbourg (FR)
    • Title of the talk:  Introduction and EIC approach towards new material
    • Speaker and Chairman at the roundtable
    • More information available here
  11. 17 May 2023
    Chem2MAT – European Conference on Chemistry of 2D Materials, Bologna (IT)
    • Chairman of the Innovation Forum 
    • More information available here
  12. 11 May 2023
    GCMAC (Germany / Canada Materials Acceleration Centre) Industry Days
    • Organised by GCMAC
    • Full programme available here
  13. 27 April 2023
    EU Funding to support the Hydrogen economy
  14. 27 April 2023
    International research collaboration opportunities: fostering EU Clean Energy transition in Lithuania
  15. 25 April 2023
    Expert Roundtable on Data4Energy: How Energy Data Analytics Helps Fight Climate Change and Grow Cleantech Scaleups

     

  16. 18 April 2023
    CMCC & EIC Webinar on Environmental intelligence
  17. 4 April 2023
    Roundtable on the development of Invitalia’s sustainable strategic plan
    • Organised by Invitalia (Italiian Agency for Innovation)
    • Roundtable participant  
  18. 28 March 2023
    Technological Innovation for Energy-efficient and low-carbon mining and processing
  19. 21 - 23 March 2023
    StoRIES at Energy Conversion and Storage Days - Karlsruhe, Germany
    • Organised by Supeera
    • Full programme available here
  20. 16 March 2023
    Electrons to Chemicals: Taking the Next Steps in Adding Value to Renewable Electricity & CO2
    • Speaker in the session entitled ''Innovation trends in the field of Carbon capture utilization (CCU)''
    • Organised by Interreg 2 Seas E2C
    • Full programme available here
  21. 14 March 2023
    European Energy Research Alliance: The Future of Energy Materials
    • Paneslist and speaker in the session entitled “From materials design to their scale up: the EIC hands on approach for Advanced Materials for Energy”
    • Full programme available here
  22. 27 February 2023
    EIC Board Meets the Torino Ecosystem
    • Presentation The journey from lab to market: thoughts from EIC Programme Managers 
  23. 17 February 2023
    Innovative materials for a Sustainable Development: from lab to applications
    • Speaker: Geopolymers and Circular Economy: opportunities and challenges 
    • Conference site 
  24. 1 February 2023
    EIC Transition & Accelerator Challenge Info Day
  25. 22 January 2022
    30 years of Interuniversity Italian Consortium for Materials Science and  Materials Technology (INSTM): past, present and future of the Consortium
    • Panelist in the  round table: Best practices of cooperation between the different actors of the Materials Science ecosystem of innovation
    • the event website

     

  26. 24 January 2023
    Webinar "Licensing as exit strategy for the EIC beneficiaries"
    • Organised by EIC Programme Managers Office, with the collaboration of Elicia Maine (Beedie School of Business (BC, Canada), Sembi Kamaldeep (Simon Fraser University), and Lilian Volcan (University of Oxford)
    • Watch full webinar

     

  27. 8 - 11 November 2022
    Ecomondo
  28. 26 October 2022
    EIC Podcast series: Episode 2 - Renewable energy - is hydrogen the answer?
    • EIC's podcast The game changers: from radical idea to innovative business 
    • With Francesco Matteucci, Indraneel Sen, Project Coordinator at Department of Chemistry - Ångström Laboratory and Rachel Armstrong, Professor for Regenerative Architecture at KU Leuven, 
    • Listen to the full episode
  29. 25 - 28 October 2022
    APRE Annual Conference 2022
  30. 24 & 25 October 2022
    EurASc Ceremony 2022
  31. 18 & 19 October 2022
    Water Knowledge Europe
  32. 22 - 27 September 2022
    EIC Challenges Workshop with Member States
    • Organised by the Programme Managers' Office 
    • Please find individual reports and Power Point presentations for the session here
  33. 19 - 22 July 2022
    Junior EUROMAT2022
  34. 22 - 24 June 2022
    Technology Transfer Office Circle meeting, Prague (CZ)
  35. 14 - 15 June 2022
    SUNERGY CSA workshop
  36. 7 June 2022
    EEN & EIC: European opportunities for highly innovative companies, Bolzano (IT)
  37. 23 - 25 May 2022
    ARPA-E Summit
  38. 26 - 27 April 2022
    Smart Cities Marketplace Forum
  39. 4 February 2022
    Dubai Expo