Media
EIC Transition Challenge Information Day - Environmental Intelligence 
EIC Accelerator Challenge Information Day - Energy Storage 
#EUeic Podcast Series - Episode 2: Renewable energy - is hydrogen the answer? 
Pitch session with EU funded projects with sustainable solutions 
Webinar on Licensing as exit strategy
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
2022 & 2023 events in the advanced materials for energy and environmental sustainability portfolio
- 17 February 2023Innovative materials for a Sustainable Development: from lab to applications
- Speaker: Geopolymers and Circular Economy: opportunities and challenges
- Conference site
- 1 February 2023EIC Transition & Accelerator Challenge Info Day
- Presentation of EIC Transition Challenge on Environmental Intelligence
- Presentation of EIC Acceleration Challenge on Energy Storage
- 22 January 202230 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
- 27 January 2023EIC Board Meets the Torino Ecosystem
- Presentation The journey from lab to market: thoughts from EIC Programme Managers
- 24 January 2023Webinar "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
- 8 - 11 November 2022Ecomondo
- Check the Ecomondo web for more details
- Watch the pitch session with EU funded projects with sustainable solutions
- 26 October 2022EIC 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
- 22 - 27 September 2022EIC Challenges Workshop with Member States
- Organised by the Programme Managers' Office
- Please find individual reports and Power Point presentations for the session here
- 13 - 14 September 2022Battery Innovation Days
- 22 - 24 June 2022Technology Transfer Office Circle meeting, Prague (CZ)
- Check JRC Science Hub for more information
- 7 June 2022EEN & EIC: European opportunities for highly innovative companies, Bolzano (IT)
- More information on EEN Italia
- 26 - 27 April 2022Smart Cities Marketplace Forum