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Director of Cooperative Innovation at Euskampus. Gained her PhD in Pharmacy at the Universidad de Navarra in 1995. Elena has made a number of postdoctoral visits to centres abroad including the UCLA Faculty of Medicine (Los Angeles, California) and the Physiology Department of the University of California in Irvine (UCI). She currently combines her position as Contracted Lecturer as Doctor in Physiology at the Universidad Pública de Navarra with her role as Research Director at BCC, which both promotes research projects in the field of the promotion of nutrititon and e-health. She is the principal researcher on numerous funded research projects on physiology, gerontology and nutrition and is the author or co-author of over thirty scientific research articles in international periodicals. In 2004 she received the "Beca Ortiz de Landázuri" granted by the Health Department of the Government of Navarre.

He is director of Euskampus Fundazioa, founded in 2011 by the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Tecnalia Corporation and the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC). He worked as assistant professor in the Faculty of Sciences of the UPV/EHU, international projects manager in Gamesa Energy, researcher and project manager at LABEIN- Tecnalia, project and outreach manager in the Nanoscience Cooperative Research Center- nanoGUNE, manager of the nanoBasque Strategy in the Basque Business Development Agency- SPRI, and director of DeustoTech. He holds a PhD in Physics from UPV/EHU, and a master degree in journalism and science communication from the Spanish Open University. He is the author of more than 70 international scientific publications indexed in the Web of knowledge,and author of 3 international patents. He has been awarded as one of the word-leading “Boundary Spanners” for University Business Cooperation by the University Industry Innovation Network.

Dr. Adela Balderas is Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford. Professor at CámaraBilbao University Business School and at the Bachelor Degree in Gastronomy and Culinary Arts, Basque Culinary Center-University of Mondragon, Dr. Balderas is PhD in Business Administration. Master in Marketing, Executive MBA and Master in Career Coaching, she is also specialized in professional coaching with studies at the University of New York, Stanford and Harvard University. Consultant in marketing and business skills, Dr. Balderas has a wealth of teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Lecturer at ESIC Business and Marketing School, she is currently Director of a Master at Basque Culinary Center, mentor in Imagine at Silicon Valley and consultant. Dr. Balderas is visiting professor and Lecturer at the University of Salamanca (Spain), College of Economics of the University of Xiamen (China), L University of Regensburg (Germany) .

interdisciplinary ‘policy-engaged’ researcher, exploring the (un)sustainability of our socio-economic and socio-technical models and their effect on life. I work through the lens of environmental governance, sustainable futures and transition/transformation theories. I search for worldviews and pathways that can balance our dependence on ‘ever smarter’ growth and technology with a recovery of the unlimited potential of prosperous human-nature connectedness. The general idea is to assist in efforts towards progress, beyond traditional notions of economic growth, towards a better future for all life on our Planet. I am Principal Researcher at the Instituto de de Ciências Sociais Universidade de Lisboa (ICS - Institute of Social Sciences University of Lisbon), and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and Resource Management, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Prue is an Architect and Professor of Architectural Design Research in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape(APL) at Newcastle University; after many years at the University of Sheffield. She combines research with practice and teaching and uses the design process in all her projects to work with people and communities creatively; whether in research council funded research, the design and construction of buildings or neighbourhood design. Prue set up and directed the Bureau-Design+Research set up in 2002 within the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield to pursue ‘research by design’, to raise the profile of design within the building process. BDR carried out over 60 commissioned research, research consultancy and consultancy projects with both local and national and international bodies and has built up a reputation for innovation, expertise and publications in the area of school design, community visioning and regeneration and sustainable futures.

Dr Dos Santos is Cardiologist, Professor of Physiology and Head of the Department of cardiology, specialized in severe heart failure at Bordeaux University Hospital. He is a former research fellow of the NMR Laboratory of Joanne Ingwall, University of Harvard, Boston. He was Vice President of Univ. Bordeaux in charge of Research from 2012 to 2018 and is now in charge of Interdisciplinarity. He is also Director of the Platform for Technological and Biomedical Innovation of Bordeaux Univ. and Univ.Hospital of Bordeaux. He performs his research on Bioenergetic control of arrhythmias & heart function at Inserm Unit 1045 “Cardio-Thoracic Research Centre of Bordeaux” and at the Univ.-Hospital Institute Liryc. He has authored more 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals including New England Journal of Medecine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Circulation Research. His major topics of interest are Heart failure; Interventional cardiology; Energy met

Leire Escajedo is Professor of Public Law, and Law and Ethics in the Biosciences at the UPV / EHU and Director of the Academic press. Bachelor and Doctor of Laws (2004) and PhD in Biological Sciences (2015), she was trained in the Interuniversity Chair of Law and Human Genome and in the Department of Constitutional Law of the UPV / EHU, and since 2010 she coordinates the area of ​​Law and Ethics in Biosciences at the Faculty of Science and Technology. She is principal investigator for the Urban Elika group and a member of the Multilevel Gobernance research group. Among others, she has published several articles in Basque on ethical and legal aspects of scientific and technological advances. Highlights, on the one hand, a work on Human cloning, CAF Elhuyar award, and, on the other, a research monograph on the advances of Biotechnology, awarded by the International Society of Bioethics (SIBI) and published in Spanish, English and Basque.

Maria Garcia- Alvarez is a lecturer in History of Globalization, Rhetoric and Global Challenges at the Windesheim Honours College (Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Zwolle, the Netherlands). She is co-developer and coordinator of the Value Creators, an innovative educational concept where students work as change agents addressing complexity and SDGs. She holds a Master's degree in Communication Sciences from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain). She is a member of the Board of Directors of the social innovation think-tank Asturias Compromiso XXI in Spain. Her research focuses on character qualities as meta-competences that help dealing with complex issues and wicked problems. She is the contact person for UN-Habitat network at the university.

Senior R&D Administrator at DFKI. Since 2001, he has been a EU project manager both at the European Research and Project Office GmbH (until 2008) and at DFKI (ongoing). He has acquired, managed and evaluated more than 50 European projects in different programmes and delivered more than 25 training workshops on research methodologies, project and innovation management around the world. Dr. Girenko was a manager of FP5 Uptake Measure Agentcities.NET, managed FP6 i2Home IST project in the field of smart home environments for AAL, and led the activities on active engagement with older users in the framework of FP7 SIforAGE project. Besides, he was involved in such FP7 ICT projects as Metalogue and ROCKIT, and running H2020 RICAIP. The expertise in innovation management was obtained through the series of innovation projects such as EIT PRAF and ELEMENT, FP6 K4CARE (EHR for home care, innovation manager), eContentplus MathBridge (business model developer).

Maurice is a software engineer at DFKI Competence Center Ambient Assisted Living – CCAAL – is a cross-project and cross-department virtual organization within the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence coordinating and conducting research and development in the area of Ambient Assisted Living – AAL. It joins forces from the departments Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Agents and Simulated Reality (ASR), Institute for Information Systems (IWI), Augmented Vision (AV), Knowledge Management (KM) and Robotics Innovation Center (RIC) and thus offers competences in a wide range of areas within AAL. Following a holistic approach to AAL, the driving force for research and development are primarily users of the technology, society and business partners. He is expert in User centered design and co-creation methodologies.

Dr. Liesbeth Rijsdijk is the Director of External Relations at the Windesheim Honours College (Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Zwolle, the Netherlands). She is also a lecture in research courses and works as a researcher at Windesheim's Professorship of Social Innovation. In the last years, her research and expertise is focus in Wicked Challenges, Leadership Competences and Governance, publishing several papers in these topics and developing the “wickedmeter”, a tool to measure dimensions of wicked problems. Liesbeth holds a PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience by the University of Maastrich. Previous work experience includes working for UNESCO/UNAIDS in the Pacific and Central Asia. She is a Board Member of the African Woman Foundation.

Carlo SESSA, former President, is now Research Director at the Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems of Rome (ISINNOVA). Before joining the institute in 1983, he has conducted research at NYU, where he worked with Nobel Prize winner Wassily Leontieff. He was the Coordinator of several EU research projects, in the 5th, 6th and 7th Framework Programmes, mostly in the fields of transport, energy, environment and urban governance issues. In this context, he was leading several participatory projects, involving panels of experts and citizens and aiming to raise the citizens awareness of science and technology prospects in the field of sustainable urban development (EU project RAISE), sustainable urban transport (EU project MOVE TOGETHER) and sustainable water management (EU project AWARE). Amongst several projects dealing with foresight issues, Carlo was involved as leading researcher in some EU funded Social Sciences and Humanities research projects: