Nuša Lazar

Nuša Lazar is working at Nigard d.d., the utility company in Municipality of Maribor. She is coordinating and managing the circular economy project CINDERELA (New Circular Economy Business Model for More Sustainable Urban Construction). She is very invested in the topics of the circular economy as well as social topics, with emphasis on education and more specifically in adult education. She holds a Master degree in economics as well as a professional education degree in pedagogic and adult education form Maribor University. She also holds the academic title senior lecturer. She is very experienced in the field of marketing (especially online marketing) as well as project management, business consulting and event management. She has coordinated several in-house projects and participated in various international projects. She is also a cooperation partner of the European Network for Economic Cooperation and Development (EUCED).

Nicola Ongaro

Ongaro Nicola, born in Jesolo (VE) in 1970. He graduated in Economics and Business at the Ca ’Foscari University in Venice. He gained experience in the field of community services as director of a public company that managed road maintenance, green and other public services. Since 2014, he is responsible for the Directorate, Administration and Control of IFAF SPA, following the environmental and waste management, the development and innovation of products and production processes. He is the reference person for the project called "Advanced Systems for Waste Recovery" (POR FESR 2014-2020) and, in collaboration with the other partners, contributes to the definition of objectives, to the coordination of the research activities and to the analysis of the project results. 

Douwe Huitema

Douwe Huitema is contributing to the Dutch Circular Economy as a consultant at KplusV. His focus is sustainable waste management, offering a plethora of services that help governments and companies turn waste into value. From supervising green tender processes and setting up public-private partnerships to designing new circular value chains and their accompanying business models. Furthermore, Douwe shares his hands-on experience as a teacher at the HAN University of Applied Sciences, educating students to become circular change agents. Within the European CINDERELA research project Douwe is work package leader of what he calls the heart of CINDERELA: setting up and exploiting the CINDERELA one-stop-shop.

Massimiano Tellini

Massimiano Tellini is an economist by training, investment banker by practice and opportunity maker by vocation.

With more than 15 years of international banking activity, he has been involved in different fields spanning from credit analysis to trade finance in the UK, from project finance to innovation in Asia Pacific. In charge of the Circular Economy Project, he currently reports to the General Manager of the Innovation Center of Intesa Sanpaolo Group. He is also the author of ‘Re-think’ (2013) – a documentary about the need to reframe present global business models & the discourse about Climate Change. His personal goal: to manage to “reduce the risk of tomorrow” by reconnecting Business & Society.

Enrico Cancila

An expert economist in environmental management, he has worked with both companies and public bodies, coordinating and managing projects of national and international importance on issues related to the relationship between the economy and the environment. He has collaborated with the European Commission, the Ministry of the Environment and with various Italian Regions and is a member of the main working groups on issues relating to the green economy and sustainable development. He is currently head of the Economy and Environment Unit of the In-House Agency of the Emilia Romagna Region which includes both environmental and energy-related issues and sustainable economic development. On the management of the environment and the green economy he is co-author of publications and articles and has lectured in various universities and in the main Italian specialization courses.

Laura Pighi

Laura is present from the initial stages of Habitech and she has contributed to the development of several lines: she has promoted the implementation of the Charrette, she was Coordinator of the Standards Committee GBC District of GBC Italia; as Project Manager and LEED AP she has joined investment funds, asset management companies, insurance groups and corporations in developing sustainable real estate asset certificates, collaborating with the first implementations of the international sustainability certification systems in the Italian context / Europe in collaboration with American Anglo-Saxon consulting signatures (MI, OR, WA); on the business axis she coordinated the project of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development "Industria 2015" for the innovation of the made in Italy and the internationalization, with Habitech as a leader of the consortium.

Manuela Brotto

Manuela is economist in local development. She started to work at Veneto Region - Brussels Department in 2004, managing and coordinating contact and project within EU industrial districts. She has collaborated with the European Commission and local development agency (OCSE LEED in Trento, Veneto Chamber of Commerce in Venice, Vine- Development of East Europe in Padua). She has worked then in private agency managing SME research project in collaboration with University of Padua in the field of material and process for the the circular economy. Form 2016 she is co-founder of OPICE SRL that offer to the market, research project and new technological solution to produce new materials made by industrial waste, enabling the cooperation between industry and science environment. She is cluster manager in OPICE SRL considering company active involvement as founder member of the Regional Innovative Cluster of Green Circular Economy “Veneto Green Cluster” (DGR Veneto n.54 del 27/01/2017) a regional cluster that want to aggregate the best excellences in the field of waste valorization, involving industrial sectors oriented to green business and green production.

Jaime Moreno Juez

Dr. Jaime Moreno. PhD in materials and processes engineering at the French institute of science and technology for transport, development and networks “IFSTTAR” and the French engineering school “Centrale Nantes”. Researcher at Tecnalia since 2017 in the Building Technologies department (Cement-Based Products area). More than 6 years of experience on building materials research, circular economy and project management. Research activities related to the circular economy of construction materials, development and optimization of new circular cement-based products, valorization of industrial by-products for building applications, C&DW management and new digital tools for traceability and quality assessment of materials. Involvement in several international research projects related to the circular economy in the construction sector. From 2014-2017, participation in the French national project “RECYBETON” for the complete recycling of concrete waste. From 2017-2019, involvement in the European HISER project (H2020 GA nº 642085), VEEP project (H2020 GA nº 723582) and CINDERELA project (H2020 GA nº 776751). Author of 6 indexed scientific papers, 6 conference papers and technical publications in national journals.

Valentina Beghetto

She is Delegate of Technology Transfer and Third Mission Activities for the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, of the Ca 'Foscari University of Venice, and has over 60 publications, patents and conference communications. Coordinator of various national, regional and European projects, from 2014 he is president and founding partner of Crossing Ltd., an Academic spin off dedicated to the development of new technologies for innovative materials with high environmental sustainability. He teaches industrial organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, asymmetric synthesis for the tanning industry and chemistry.