Welcome back to The Insider, your weekly podcast about Research and Innovation in Europe.
Jana Kolar is the current Chair of ESFRI – the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures. ESFRI has just celebrated 20 years and has had a crucial role in promoting a strategic approach across Europe towards selection and funding of research infrastructures. The importance of the contribution of ESFRI for strategic thinking, not just in research infrastructures, but in Research and Innovation more broadly along these last 20 years is often overlooked. But what is the future holding and how is ESFRI addressing it?
Jana is also one of the most engaging and interesting persons to talk to. It is always a huge pleasure to have these conversations and debates with her and you will surely want to hear this one.
We explore the unique path towards the establishment of CERIC, the RI that Jana is the Executive Director of, but also the vision for Jana’s 2-year first mandate in ESFRI as Chair. We went deep into the challenges of rethinking how to properly develop a landscape and gap analysis across knowledge domains, the importance of impact, sustainability and funding synergies, among others.
The Insider
Hello and welcome to The Insider, a podcast Made in Brussels about research and innovation in Europe, the people and the institutions that make it happen.
Join us in a journey to discover more about the human beings that dedicate their lives to research, science and technology management and science communication.
Find out what drives them, their infinite and diverse career paths.
Discover the institutions that they call home, their research and management struggles.
Explore their perspectives and views: you will hear directly from guests from the European institutions, national governments or your regional funding body, among others.
You will have the opportunity to know more about the leading European universities and research institutes, as well as research-based start-ups and industry leaders.
Join us in these personal, one to one conversations, with the brightest minds of science and technology in Europe.
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