Knowledge Co-creation

Coordinating the process of acquisition of research and development projects (obtaining funding) carried out jointly with foreign and domestic scientific centres and universities by intensifying the preparation of applications for research grants and intensifying the activities of the Lukasiewicz Research Network in the field of cooperative, consulting, participatory and scientific publication-oriented research.


Coordinating the process of submitting project proposals in international EU Horizon calls and tenders (as a leader or member of a consortium).


Working out (together with Lukasiewicz Research Groups) an effective model of developing technological solutions within Łukasiewicz Programs.Coordinating the scanning and mapping EU Horizon calls of relevance for Łukasiewicz Network; call decomposition, defining key features, mapping destinations, and outcomes.


Managing the team responsible for the Knowledge Co-Creation process, including funding opportunities mapping, project acquisition, building consortia, and support for proposals writing).


Managing, preparing, and implementing ambitious research projects (EU Horizon).


Supporting ŁRN Institutes in the process of applying for European and international proposals, together with foreign and domestic Research Centres and Universities.


Streamlining research services.

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Krzysztof Mieszkowski Area Leader of Knowledge Co-creation in Centre for Foresight and Internationalisation
He has knowledge on RDI ecosystems and experience in grants’ acquisition for RDI projects from different source of funding. He used to work for the Polish ministry responsible for science and higher education, Joint Research Centre (Seville site) and Warsaw University of Technology. His key role is to lead the team responsible for setting up consortia to work on proposals for collaborative projects at EU level.
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Robbert Fisher
has over 30 years of experience in managing large international contracts and projects in the field of R&I. He is a highly experienced science, technology and innovation policy analyst, strategist, and advisor to the European Institutions (as the European Parliament and the European Commission) as well as national and regional governments. His long career has focused on policies in a wide variety of fields such as ICT, Nanotechnology, renewable technologies, climate, and environmental technologies as well as innovation policies such as the European Framework Programs, Innovation Eco-Systems, policy (mix) instruments as mission-oriented policies, public innovation procurement, industry-focussed innovation policies (such as key enabling technologies), demand side incentive schemes as well as synergies between policy domains and between policies at different governance levels (from international to regional). In addition, Robbert has been directly involved in the EU R&I programmes as a policy officer, evaluator, rapporteur, vice chair, reviewer and panel member at the project and programme level, since 1991. Robbert is currently a strategy and science advisor to Łukasiewicz Research Network. Previously he was amongst others the president of Knowledge4Innovation (in the European parliament), an associated expert at the VUB AI for Good centre and an associate principal researcher at the University de las Campinas in Sao Paolo, managing director of JIIP(TNO, VTT, Tecnalia and Joanneum research). He is a member of several advisory boards of European projects as well as (start-up) companies.
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Miquel Banchs-Piqué Senior Specialist in Foresight and Knowledge Co-Creation in the Łukasiewicz – Centre for Foresight and Internationalisation
He has a PhD in applied foresight by the University of Portsmouth (UK), as part of the 'Doctoral Training Alliance – Energy' program. Miquel has experience in the fields of energy, circular economy and sustainability, and has completed a physics degree and a MSc's in photonics. He co-authored (with other SONet members) 'The Nüwa concept' —a 1M people Mars city-state design ranked top 10 (over 176 designs) in the Mars Society contest 2020—, in which he was in charge of sustainability, resilience and high-level energy aspects of the design. Previously, he worked in a cavitation and micro-erosion laboratory in Göttingen (DE), and attempted the project 'CO2 Industrial Ecosystems'. Dr. Banchs-Piqué is member of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), the Sustainable Off-world Network (SONet) and the German Physical Society (DPG), and collaborates with social, environmental, and scientific projects.