Charlotte Andersdotter
Ms. Charlotte Andersdotter is a policy officer at the European Commission, DG RTD. She is currently working at Directorate C, European Research Area, Knowledgebased economy mainly with Private investments and the Technology Platforms. Previously she held a position in the Directorate for Industrial Technologies where she dealt with initiatives towards industrial involvement, coordination of Member States activities and innovation policies. Ms Andersdotter has over ten years of experience in linking research to industry and SMEs and regional development activities in a European context.
The overall objective of the ERA-NET scheme is to develop and strengthen the coordination of national and regional research programmes. Under this scheme, national and regional authorities identify research programmes they wish to coordinate or open up mutually. The participants in these actions are therefore programme 'owners' (typically ministries or regional authorities defining research programmes) or programme 'managers' (such as research councils or other research funding agencies managing research programmes).