Magellan Circle Journal

The special guest for this episode is our colleague Teresa, who has just returned from the World Bioeconomy Forum in Brazil, where she moderated several sessions and discussions. But what exactly is bioeconomy and how is it related to biodiversity, climate change and other related topics? Teresa tells us more about it in this podcast.

The Transport Research Arena (TRA) Conference is the largest event entirely dedicated to European research and technology on transport and mobility. Under the motto “Moving together – reimagining mobility worldwide”, TRA Lisbon 2022 take place in Lisbon, Portugal (17-21 November 2022) and is co-organised by Magellan and other Portuguese entities. In this episode we talk to Patrick Mercier Handisyd...

In order to align with the EU Green Deal strategy, Port of Antwerp is coordinating a new EU project called PIONEERS, where Magellan is also a partner. Inge de Wolf, Public Affairs advisor at the Port of Antwerp shares her expectations, challenges and the strengths of Port of Antwerp. Can Inge convince us that Port of Antwerp really is the Port of the Future? Find out in our latest episode.

Ricardo Oliveira has 25 years experience in European Law and Competition. We talk to Ricardo about how the Recovery and Resilience Plan can help the post COVID 19 crisis and what is the role of entities such as PLMJ and Magellan in facilitating such solutions.  

One of the greatest challenges presented to the European Union is its relationship with the citizens and communicating its role adequately. This has been the challenging task for our latest podcast guest and Head of European Commission Representation in Portugal - Sofia Colares Alves. Sofia shares the most significant outcomes of her five year mandate as well as the main takeaways from the Portuga...

This time, we have the pleasure to introduce you to our new colleague Rita Gil Mata,  who took the role of Head of EU Funding in Magellan this June. With a brilliant academic and professional career in the fields of research and funding, Rita was recently elected as Ordinary Board Member of EARMA - European Association of Research Managers and Administrators. We talk about the challenges asso...

Anabela Carvalho is responsible for the International Networks Unit at ANI – the Portuguese National Innovation Agency; and she is the Portuguese National Contact Point and Delegate to Cluster 5 "Climate, Energy and Mobility" and Cluster 6 "Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment" of Horizon Europe, within the PERIN: Portugal in Europe Research and Innovation Network. We t...

The European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) is the main lobbying and standards group of the automobile industry in the European Union. In this episode, we speak to Joost Vantomme, Smart Mobility Director at ACEA about one of the most regulated sectors in Europe and the revolution of the individual mobility. 

What do we know about cyber security in Europe? How can we protect our data? In our #InternationalWomensDay2021 special, cyber security expert Silvana Precup shares her insights on data privacy in our everyday lives and tell the story of what it's like to work in this challenging and often gender unequal sector. 

In this podcast we speak to Eunice Ribeiro, Director of EC R&I Strategy and Policy at I2CAT Foundation based in Barcelona. I2CAT is a leading research and innovation center in advanced digital technologies to build the digital society of the future. We talk to Eunice about 5G, blockchain and other technologies and how the European and national funding can support their development and early ad...

Just a few days after the official launch of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Ambassador Pedro Lourtie gives us an exclusive insight into the 4th Portuguese Presidency. What will the next six months bring for the European citizens, Portugal as the Member State in change and European Union as a whole? Tune in our first podcast of 2021 and find out!

What is the role of governments when it comes to shared mobility and next generation vehicles? How can we bring back the trust in the commuter in the post pandemic world? These are some of the issues we discuss with Stephanie Leonard, Head of Innovation and Policy at TomTom, location technology leader. 

In this podcast, we talk to Fernando Liesa, secretary general of ALICE, one of the six European Technology Platforms set up by the European Commission in 2013, focused on supply chain and logistics.  Fernando tells us more about the ALICE roadmaps for action at national and EU level.  

Lina Konstantinopoulou is Secretary General of The European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRAP) which has been promoting a Europe free of high-risk roads since 1999. Lina tells us how EuroRAP supports cities and road authorities in achieving safer roads through its global iRAP protocols.

Jaap Gebraad is Research and Development Affairs Director at SEA Europe, the voice of the maritime civil and naval industries in Europe. We talk to Jaap about the Waterborne Technology Platform, which has been set up as an industry-oriented Technology Platform to establish a continuous dialogue between all waterborne stakeholders in the quest for zero-emissions waterborne transport. 

Maria da Graça Carvalho has been deeply involved in the European and national politics in her home country, Portugal. With an academic background in mechanical engineering,  Graça talks us through the importance of science and innovation in Europe and how to get more women in technology jobs. 

Steve Phillips, Secretary General at CEDR, Conference of European Directors of Roads talks about the importance of European roads, the "Green corridors" initiative and the role of freight transport during the pandemic. 

In this episode we talk to Phanthian Zuesongdham - Head of Digital and Business Transformation at the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) about the digitalisation and innovation in one of the worlds biggest ports and how it has dealt with the coronavirus crisis.

Public transport has been hit hard by the recent and still ongoing coronavirus crisis. In this podcast, we talk to Artur Perchel, Deputy Director at UITP - International Association of Public Transport about the recovery of the sector and the shift to shared mobility. 

Maria de Lurdes Antunes is Vice President of National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC) in Portugal and President of the Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories (FEHRL). We ask Maria de Lurdes about defining the future trends in transport and infrastructure and how will the new Horizon Europe programme go about them.

The European Commission has recently adopted the new EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, an ambitious, long-term plan for protecting nature and reversing the degradation of ecosystems. In this episode we talk to Humberto Delgado Rosa, Director at DG Environment of the European Commission about the main objectives of the strategy and how we can shift from liking nature to systematically protecting b...

"We are going to live through a very challenging moment: coronavirus pandemic will bring the worst economic crisis in a century and its outcomes are unpredictable". In this podcast we talk to Paulo Vaz, the business activities leader of “AEP – Associação Empresarial de Portugal”, the biggest and most important Entrepreneurial Association in Portugal and one of most influential business organisatio...

Pedro São Simão has recently become the coordinator of the Portuguese Plastics Pact (PPP) which has the aim to create a plastic circular economy in Portugal where plastics never become waste.  We talk to Pedro about the ambitious targets of the PPP to completely eliminate unnecessary plastics and shift to 100% recyclable ones by 2025. 

João Falcão e Cunha is dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto. We asked João how his Faculty and students adapted to the new ways of studying and working and what implications will "the new normal" have our working habits in the long run.

In our first podcast we talk to Alina Koskela, Chair of the Management Committee of the Transport Research Arena 2020 conference which was supposed to take place this week in Helsinki, Finland. Just like many other events, it was canceled due to the Corona virus outbreak. What had TRA2020 prepared for you this week and why was Helsinki chosen as host city in the first place?