SeeRRI outcomes: Territorial showcases from B30, Lower Austria, Nordland

SeeRRI outcomes: Territorial showcases from B30, Lower Austria, Nordland
SeeRRI FINAL CONFERENCE – Barcelona – 29-30/9/2021
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Jens Ørding Hansen (Chair)
Senior Researcher at Nordland Research Institute - NRI

Jens Ørding Hansen holds a doctoral degree in International Management from University of Agder, Norway, and a master’s degree in Applied Economics and Finance from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. His research interests include corporate governance, corporate finance, regional development, responsible research and innovation (RRI), and organization studies.


Catalonia / B30:

Tatiana Fernández (Left)
Head of Economic Promotion at the Government of Catalonia of the Vice-presidency and of the Economy and Finance

Tatiana Fernández coordinates the Research and Innovation Strategy for the Smart Specialisation of Catalonia (RIS3CAT) and other strategic projects. Before that, she worked for many years as an economic analyst and adviser on EU economic issues. She holds a PhD in European Integration and International Relations from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a Master of Economics.


Xavier Ariño (Right)
Head of Strategic Projects at Autonomous
University of Barcelona - UAB

PhD in Biology. More than 20 years post PhD experience as researcher and academic and research management in EC projects. He is assessor of EURAXESS, and the representative for the implementation of Charter & Code at the UAB. He is the responsible of P-SPHERE, a Marie S. Curie COFUND project coordinated by the UAB. Currently, he is leading several strategic initiatives at the UAB, as the RIS3 CAT, the Research Professional Development Program (including RRI training), and the Innovation Hub B30.


Lower Austria:

Simone Hagenauer (Left)
Project Manager at ecoplus

Simone Hagenauer holds a master degree in Law from Karl-Franzens University Graz/Austria and specialised in European common law and environmental law. Since 2003 project manager at ecoplus, the Lower Austrian business agency, she has been responsible for cross-border business cooperation projects as well as cluster development projects.


Marianne Hörlesberger (Right)
Austrian Institute
of Technology AIT

Marianne Hörlesberger has worked for AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH since 2001. She graduated from the University Vienna and has a PhD in mathematics. Currently she works mainly for projects with stakeholder engagement such as foresight and road mapping. She is currently responsible for stakeholder involvement and stakeholder workshops for in the EU projects IAMRRI (SwafS-2016-17, GA 78836S) and SeeRRI (SwafS-2018-2020, GA 824588).


Nordland:


Anders Paulsen (Left)
Assistant director at Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise -NHO Nordland

Anders Paulsen holds a Master of science in Business degree from Nord University Business School. He has more than 25 years of experience from private businesses, mainly from consulting, marketing, sales, leadership and project management. One of his current focus areas is working on increasing the knowledge of and participation in EU H2020 projects among businesses and public organizations in Nordland county.


Eivind Sommerseth (Center)
Senior advisor at Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise
- NHO Nordland

Eivind Sommerseth has a degree from the University of Agriculture and also law studies. 40 years of experience from leading positions within public organisations such as university, research council and county governor. He is currently part time positioned within NHO Nordland, working on increasing the knowledge of and participation in EU H2020 projects among businesses and public organizations in Nordland county.


Åge Olav Mariussen (Right)
Senior Researcher at the Nordland Research Institute - NRI - and leader at the University of Vaasa, Finland

Åge Mariussen has covered regional development, restructuring, transnational learning and innovation at several universities in Norway, Sweden and Finland, including the University of Tromsø, NIFU and the University of Vaasa. He is an expert in Smart Specialization Strategy (S3) and participates on the EC’s S3 Platform.

Dag Bastholm (Online participation)
Senior Advisor at the Department of Community and Social Development at Nordland
County Council

Liv
Rask Sørensen (Online participation)
Deputy County Director of Nordland County Council.


Summary:
Representatives from the three pilot territories of SeeRRI – B30, Lower Austria, and Nordland – each presented their core regional challenge and spoke about how they have used the SeeRRI project to address this challenge. In the ensuing Q&A segment, questions from the moderator focused on the links between RRI and smart specialization; the role of “shared agendas” in addressing regional challenges; and the problem of how to motivate actors from industry to engage in RRI. This inspired a lively debate.