Project Governance Structure

Experts covering all

The six Pillars of RRI:

Ethics, GE, Open Access/Data, Science education, Public engagement, under the umbrella of Governance.

Disciplines specifically mentioned in the call:

Digital, Single Market, the Energy Union, bio- economy and waste management.

RRING project coordinator

The coordinator of the RRING project, is hosted in MaREI Centre, University College Cork.

MaREI (Marine Renewable Energy Ireland ), UCC is a centre for renewable energy research, development and innovation centre. The centre has the expertise of a wide range of research groups and industry partners, with the shared missions of solving the main scientific, technical and socio-economic challenges across the marine and energy spaces.

MaREI has over 30 years of experience leading and participating in National European and International Research projects, and a track record of successfully delivering over two hundred commercial contracts with small to medium enterprises and multinational corporations.

Consortium partners


Participant Organisation Legal Name Short Name Country Partner Name
University College Cork (Coordinator) UCC Ireland Gordon Dalton Catriona Ni Laoire Christine Gaffney Carol Linehan  Jasmin Schomakers  Annette Matthys
United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization UNESCO France John Crowley
Uruguay Guillermo Anllo
Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC) Limited Vitae UK Emma Day
Meiji University Educational Foundation Meiji Japan Andrew Adams
National Research Foundation NRF/SAASTA South Africa Shadrack Mkansi
International Consortium of Research Staff Associations ICoRSA Ireland Simge Davulcu
Eric Jensen
University of Bradford UniBrad UK Uduak Archibong
De Montford University DMU UK Kutoma Wakunuma
Tilimbe Jiya
Rhine-Waal University HSRW Germany Alexander Gerber
Wageningen University WUR Netherlands Vincent Blok
Edurne Inigo
Anglia Ruskin University ARU UK Chris Foulds
Monica Racovita
National Research Council CNR Italy Fernando Ferri
Patrizia Grifoni
Fraunhofer Fraun Germany Louisa Grabner
Universitiet van Amsterdam CEDLA-UVA Netherlands Fabio de Castro
Dublin City University DCU Ireland Padraig Murphy
University of Madrid UPM Spain Ines Sanchez de Madariaga
Inés Novella Abril
University of Vilnius VU Lithuania Raminta Pučėtaitė
Aurelija Novelskaite
Centar ZA Promociju Nauke CPN Serbia Bojan Kenig
Lale Eric Dobrivoje
Future Earth FE/CNRS France Mariela Antonakopoulou
Erasmus University Rotterdam EUR Netherlands Hub Zwart

International Collaborations

Advisory Board & Gender Commitee

Advisory Board

Member Name Institution full name Short Name Country
Wendy Broadgate Future Earth FE Sweden
Mathieu Denis International Social Science Council ISSC France
Gal Weiss IBM Ireland Limited (IBM Research – Ireland) IBM Ireland
Reda Cimmperman Research Council of Lithaunia RCL Lithuania
Ganna Tolstanova Taras Shevchenko National University Kyiv TSNUK Ukraine
Ewelina Pabjańczyk-Wlazło European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers Eurodoc Belgium
Lidia Brito UNESCO Latin America UNESCO LAC Uruguay
Miyoko Watanabe Japan Science and Technology JST Japan
Peter Brown Irish Research Council IRC Ireland

Gender Committee

Member Name Institution full name Short Name Country
Aurelija Novelskaite University of Vilnius VU Lithuania
Caitriona Ni Laoire University College Cork UCC Ireland
Ewelina Pabjańczyk-Wlazło The European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers EURODOC Belgium
Rosarii Griffin University College Cork UCC Ireland
Inés Novella Abril University of Madrid UPM Spain
Inés Sánchez de Madariaga University of Madrid UPM Spain
Juliana Chaves Chaparro United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO France
Carol Linehan University College Cork UCC Ireland
Raminta Pučėtaitė University of Vilnius VU Lithuania
Silvia Vilches Auburn University AU USA
Uduak Archibong University of Bradford UniBrad UK

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.