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Francesco Matteucci

Francesco Matteucci

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

Outreach activities 2022 & 2023

  1. 16 - 17 November 2023 Brussels
    Mid-long term and system integrated energy storage portfolio kick-off meeting - Brussels (BE)
    • PM coordinated the portfolio meeting
    • More information available here
  2. 13 - 14 November 2023
    Reuters event - London (UK)
    • Speaker at the round table: Diversification: Delivering New Energy with European Venture Capital?
    • More information available here 
  3. 7 - 10 November
    Ecomondo – Rimini (IT)
    • Speaker and panelist in several workshops to highlight the EIC approach and visions toward advanced materials for energy and environmental sustainability
    • Find the full program here
  4. 4 - 5 Ocotober 2023
    Green H2 production portfolio annual meeting - Tarragona (ES)
    • Speaker in the sesssion 'Presentation of the European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder Portfolios'
    • More information available here 
  5. 9 - 13 September 2023
    Nanoinnovation - Rome (IT)
    • Panelist in the session 'How to stimulate the scientific entrepreneurship culture?'
    • More information available here

     

  6. 28-30 June 2023
    Bioremediation Conference
    • Speaker at the session entitled EIC Transition Challenge on Environmental Intelligence
    • More information available here
  7. 27 June 2023
    International Flow Battery Forum
    • Speaker at the session entitled EIC strategy in the Energy storage
    • Full agenda available here
  8. 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
  9. 26 June 2023
    Innovative Advanced Materials Exhibition
    • Co-organised by EuroTech
    • More information available here
    • Streaming available here

     

  10. 15 June 2023
    Hydrogen Summit, London (UK)
    • More information available here
  11. 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
  12. 8 June 2023
    Seawater sourcing for renewable Hydrogen and Chemicals, Brussels (BE)
    • More information available here
  13. 6 June 2023
    EnerGreenDeal - Start-up events, Brussels (BE)

     

    • 1-to-1 Meeting with selected SMEs
    • More information available here
  14. 22 May 2023
    Workshop on Circular desalination
    • More information available here
  15. 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
  16. 17 May 2023
    Chem2MAT – European Conference on Chemistry of 2D Materials, Bologna (IT)
    • Chairman of the Innovation Forum 
    • More information available here
  17. 11 May 2023
    GCMAC (Germany / Canada Materials Acceleration Centre) Industry Days
    • Organised by GCMAC
    • Full programme available here
  18. 27 April 2023
    EU Funding to support the Hydrogen economy
  19. 27 April 2023
    International research collaboration opportunities: fostering EU Clean Energy transition in Lithuania
  20. 25 April 2023
    Expert Roundtable on Data4Energy: How Energy Data Analytics Helps Fight Climate Change and Grow Cleantech Scaleups

     

  21. 18 April 2023
    CMCC & EIC Webinar on Environmental intelligence
  22. 4 April 2023
    Roundtable on the development of Invitalia’s sustainable strategic plan
    • Organised by Invitalia (Italiian Agency for Innovation)
    • Roundtable participant  
  23. 28 March 2023
    Technological Innovation for Energy-efficient and low-carbon mining and processing
  24. 21 - 23 March 2023
    StoRIES at Energy Conversion and Storage Days - Karlsruhe, Germany
    • Organised by Supeera
    • Full programme available here
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 27 February 2023
    EIC Board Meets the Torino Ecosystem
    • Presentation The journey from lab to market: thoughts from EIC Programme Managers 
  28. 17 February 2023
    Innovative materials for a Sustainable Development: from lab to applications
    • Speaker: Geopolymers and Circular Economy: opportunities and challenges 
    • Conference site 
  29. 1 February 2023
    EIC Transition & Accelerator Challenge Info Day
  30. 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

     

  31. 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

     

  32. 8 - 11 November 2022
    Ecomondo
  33. 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
  34. 25 - 28 October 2022
    APRE Annual Conference 2022
  35. 24 & 25 October 2022
    EurASc Ceremony 2022
  36. 18 & 19 October 2022
    Water Knowledge Europe
  37. 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
  38. 19 - 22 July 2022
    Junior EUROMAT2022
  39. 22 - 24 June 2022
    Technology Transfer Office Circle meeting, Prague (CZ)
  40. 14 - 15 June 2022
    SUNERGY CSA workshop
  41. 7 June 2022
    EEN & EIC: European opportunities for highly innovative companies, Bolzano (IT)
  42. 23 - 25 May 2022
    ARPA-E Summit
  43. 26 - 27 April 2022
    Smart Cities Marketplace Forum
  44. 4 February 2022
    Dubai Expo