Advisory and Programming Group
APG Chairs
![]() Patrick Pammer
APG Chair CHASE |
![]() Franz Hörzenberger
APG Vice-Chair ArcelorMittal |
![]() Richard Heyn
APG Vice-Chair SINTEF |
![]() Ludo Diels
Portfolio Leader (support to APG Chair and Vice-chairs) VITO |
WGs Chairs and Co-chairs
![]() Alper Akdag
Chair of WG 1 – Energy and CO₂ ABB |
![]() Rob Van Der Meer
Co-chair of WG 1 – Energy and CO₂ Cement Europe |
![]() Bernd Wittgens
Chair of WG 3 – Use of bio-based feedstock SINTEF |
![]() Christophe Pinck
Chair of WG 4 – Materials circularity & efficiency Eyde-cluster |
![]() Anna Tenhunen-Lunkka
Co-Chair of WG 4 – Materials circularity & efficiency CLIC Innovation |
![]() Witold Kurylak
Chair of WG 5 – Materials, products & processes innovation Lukasiewicz Institute |
![]() Simona Pace
Co-Chair of WG 5 – Materials, products & processes innovation RINA |
![]() Antonius Schröder
Chair of WG 6 – Innovation for competitiveness and sustainability TUDO |
![]() Charalampos Manousiadis
Co-Chair of WG 6 – Innovation for competitiveness and sustainability ICCS |
![]() Andrea Rubini
Co-Chair of WG 7 – Support for the strategic autonomy of Europe Water Europe |
Transversal Leaders
![]() Arend de Groot
Foresight Leader TNO |
![]() Heli Helaakoski
Digitalisation Leader VTT |
Next Generation Partnership Task Force
![]() Ignacio Martin Jimenez
Next Generation Partnership Task Force Co-Chair CIRCE |
A.SPIRE APG Members
![]() Ines Ferrao
Cerame-Unie |
![]() Pascal Di Croce
IMA-Europe |
![]() Johan Elvnert
CEPI - Forest Platform |
![]() Walter Vermeiren
Total Energies OneTech Belgium |






















