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Mr. Nikos Zaharis is the Director of SEERC. His goal is to build up and expand SEERC's research agenda and strengthen research partnerships internationally and in the South East European Region focusing on issues of economic and regional development, IT policy and social development.
Mr. Zaharis has a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, an MSc degree in Chemical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, USA, as well as a series of continuous education certificates on various management topics.
He has more than 22 years experience as a consultant and manager working for industrial as well as public sector organizations on issues ranging from quality and environmental management to managing of research, economic and regional development in Greece and in a series of eastern European countries
Research Projects
- SUPPORTER Project - SecUring sPORTs Education thRough innovative and inclusive Gender Equality Plans
- ACCTING - AdvanCing behavioural Change Through an INclusive Green deal
- DIGI-Step - Digital Sustainable Skills and Training in Education Partnership
- ESMERALD - Enhancing SMEs’ Resilience After Lock Down
- WBC-RRI.NET - Embedding RRI in Western Balkan Countries: Enhancement of Self-Sustaining R&I Ecosystems
- E-PROTECT II - Enhancing PROfessionals' capaciTy to dEal with Child vicTims
- ALLVET - HE and VET alliance establishment according to Bologna Principals implementation via VET teachers’ capacity building
- MechaUZ - Modernization of Mechatronics and Robotics for Bachelor Degree in Uzbekistan through innovative ideas and Digital Technology
- MIGREC - Migration, Integration and Governance Research Centre
- iCBA - Intelligent Cross-Border Accelerator for Innovative ICT-enabled start-ups
- TeRRItoria - TErritorial Responsible Research and Innovation ThrOugh the involvement of local R&IActors
- GRACE - Grounding RRI Actions to Achieve Institutional Changes in European Research Funding and Performing Organisations
- ReTRaCE - Realising the Transition to the Circular Economy: Models, Methods and Applications
- E-PROTECT - Enhancing PROtection of Children – vicTims of crime
- FIT4RRI - Fostering Improved Training Tools For Responsible Research and Innovation
- ProSFeT - Promoting Sustainable Freight Transport in Urban Contexts: Policy and Decision-Making Approaches
- ATSIV - Advancing the Third Sector through Innovation and Variation
- iSTART - A Lean-Training, Innovative, Multidisciplinary Digital Entrepreneurship Platform
- MIGRATE: CTRL+Enter Europe: Jean Monnet Migrant Crisis Network -
- Startify7 - A team-building, thematically-focused and learn-training summer academy system for young future ICT entrepreneurs.
- ICT2B - Bridging the Entrepreneurial Gap: Transforming European ICT Research into Investment Opportunities
- VIBE - Venture Initiative in the Balkan Europe
- ISCOM - Intelligent System in Supply Chain Monitoring and Optimization
- ICT-KOSEU - Supporting Dialogue and Cooperation between Europe and Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244) in Collaborative ICT R&D
- SEE - SCIENCE - Boosting innovation through capacity building and networking of science centres in the SEE region
- INNOPOLIS - Innovation Policy in University City Regions
- AsviLoc Plus - Agency Supporting Value of Innovation System in Regional & Local Economies
- MEDLAB - Mediterranean Living Lab for Territorial Innovation
- INTERVALUE - Inter-regional cooperation for valorisation of research results
- ICT-WEB-PROMS - Promoting ICT cooperation opportunities and policy dialogue with the Western Balkan Countries
- WBC-INCO.NET - Coordination of Research Policies with the Western Balkan Countries (project team lead)
- MIRIAD - Managing and Infusing Research Investment and Development
