Desk members

…India, ASEAN, China, USA, Western Balkans, Mediterranean region… Svetlana was coordinator of 10 EC-funded projects (FP6, FP7 and Horizon 2020), and she is leading GAC impact maximisation team, specialised in scaling European innovations globally. Svetlana is now coordinator of ENRICH in the USA initiative https://usa.enrichcentres.eu/, supporting internationalisation of European firms in the USA, and manager of LOTUS project www.lotus-india.eu, developing and demonstrating EU-Indian innovative and affordable solutions in water management.  Svetlana is advisory board member of Wiley IEEE book serie “Technology management, innovation and leadership”, and is lead co-editor of the book “ICT Policy, Research and Innovation” published in December 2020 by Wiley/IEEE. The book takes the lens of international collaboration and considers IoT, cyber physical systems, big data, 5G, and policy topics.

He is also an elected Director at ANPEI – the National Association of Research and Development of Innovative Companies, in Brazil, since 2012. Filipe is also the Director of the Senai Institute of Innovation in Electrochemistry, in Brazil. He served as the Director of the International Innovation Center of the Federation of Industries of the State of Paraná, in Brazil, which he co-created in 2009. He was the director of the Senai Technological and Vocational School of Curitiba. He was the leader of the Knowledge Management Process of FNQ – the Brazilian National Quality Foundation. He was a Knowledge Manager at Votorantim Industrial, and Information Technology Manager at Siemens, where he was responsible for knowledge and information management for the MERCOSUR Region.

Born and raised in France, Mr. Cassapo has 20 years of experience in strategies, innovation, impact entrepreneurship, research and development, organizational change and professional education. He is a speaker and consultant in Brazil and abroad, in projects of the Federation of Industries of the State of Paraná, the Luxembourg Development Agency (LuxDev), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the European Union.

…in bilateral international relations, finance, and controllership. Process oriented based on goals and results, highlighting the work performed at ANPEI since 2016, where she managed to reduce costs, assemble a high-performance team, and increase the association’s net worth in the first two years.