Training Suite Launch - Webinar

Claire works at the intersection of intellectual property, research valorisation, and European innovation strategy. She coordinates the European IP Helpdesk and contributes to major EU initiatives such as IP4OS, IAM4RE, and the IP SME Helpdesks. With more than a decade of international IP management experience, she helps institutions, research teams, and entrepreneurs turn intellectual assets into enablers of innovation, Open Science, and standardisation. She regularly develops and delivers training programmes on IP management, knowledge valorisation, and entrepreneurship.

Ivana Mijatović is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Organisational Sciences, University of Belgrade (UBFON). She is a passionate educator in the field of standardisation, teaching at the bachelor's, master's, and PhD levels. At UBFON, she has developed an innovative Standardisation course that integrates active learning methods and gamification elements.

Professor Mijatović leads the UB FON team in several international projects, including the Horizon Europe initiatives HSbooster.eu (Standardisation Booster for H2020 & Horizon Europe research results), Edu4Standards.eu (Education for Standardisation in the EU), and IAM4RE.eu (Intellectual Asset Management for Research and Entrepreneurship).

From 2012 to 2023, she served as Vice President of the Board of the European Academy for Standardisation (EURAS), and in 2018/2019, she was President of the International Cooperation on Education about Standardisation Committee (ICES).

She is a member of several national mirror committees related to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7, CEN/TC 353, CEN/TC 365, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36, and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 40. Her current academic work focuses on standardisation, education about standardisation, teaching quality, and quality aspects of technology-enhanced learning.

Nick Ferguson is a senior manager and shareholder at Trust-IT Services. He coordinates EU-funded projects focusing on knowledge valorisation through standardisation: Cyberstand.eu, which supports cybersecurity standardisation for the Cyber Resilience Act. He was also the coordinator of HSbooster.eu - the European Standardisation Booster. Nick also coordinates the DEDEP.eu project which improves the uptake of the Digital Europe Programme outputs and manages the EC's Booster dissemination services for Trust-IT.

Knut Blind is Head of the Business Unit Innovation and Regulation at Fraunhofer ISI and Professor of Innovation Economics at TU Berlin. With nearly three decades of experience in research, policy, and standardisation, he has led numerous European and national initiatives on the role of standards in innovation and knowledge valorisation. He coordinates projects such as EDU4Standards, and has been instrumental in developing European and German Standardisation Panels. Alongside his research and policy work, Knut actively designs and delivers training on standardisation, innovation policy, and the management of intellectual assets.

With a B.A. in international law from the Catholic University of Milan, Italy and an M.A. in Intellectual Property Law from the University of Alicante, Spain, Mr. Dubbini has been working with intellectual property within the Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects since 2014, the year in which he joined EURICE GmbH as IP & Innovation Advisor. At EURICE, he is responsible for the creation, negotiation, amendment and revision of Consortium Agreements for multinational research consortia of which EURICE is part. In addition, he is responsible for the delivery of the Intellectual Assessment Management Services within the Horizon Results Booster. Within the framework of the European IPR Helpdesk, he leads the training team. In the last four years, he has created and adapted various training modules like Introduction to IP, IP in EU-funded projects, IP Toolkit for SMEs hack and common pitfalls, Consortium Agreements that have been used to train a large number of researchers and SMEs all around Europe through webinars or live events.

Senior Expert Intellectual Property Rights with 20 years’ experience in PATLIB Linz office, offering comprehensive IP services at the highest Level III, from patent novelty searches and FtO searches to patent valuation, licensing support and IP trainings. European IP Helpdesk Ambassador for 15 years, Member of Licensing Executive Society. Studies in chemistry, graduated with a doctorate, 19 years of industrial experience in chemical engineering, metallurgy, fluidised bed technology at VAI, material development at PLANSEE, project manager of national and EC projects. Evaluator of EU project applications, Innovation Radar expert, Eureka expert.