Magellan Circle Journal

Gilda  Santos is Technical Project Manager responsible for the Defence and Protection area at the CITEVE - Textile and Apparel Technology Center. We spoke to Gilda about the new ACROSS project in which Magellan Circle is responsible for communication and dissemination actions.

In this episode we talk to Dr Stephanie Vella, who is currently the National Hub for Malta on the WestMED initiative bringing stakeholders together for the development of maritime related projects. She is also an ambassador of the MEDBAN project.

We talk to Stephanie about the WestMED initiative and how to overcome the key issues and challenges the Blue Economy is facing in the Mediterranean.

Dr Antri Theodorou is Senior Scientist at Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute with a PHD in the sector of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Sciences, at the University of Manchester. She is also an ambassador of MEDBAN - Mediterranean Blue Acceleration Network project. Antri shares her thoughts and experience on the Blue Economy in the Mediterranean.

Tassos Kyriakides is Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health at Yale University. Last December 2023, Yale held the 5th International Symposium on Olive Oil and Health in Portugal. We speak with Tassos about the history of the school, one of the oldest of this kind and the future of the Mediterranean diet.

In our first podcast of 2024 we speak to Eva Killar, Head of Mobility Development and Investments Department at the Ministry of Climate of Estonia.

Eva is also project coordinator of our new eFTI4EU project (to tag), aimed to digitalise freight transport with the well-harmonised and interoperable European-wide eFTI (Electronic Freight Transport Information) exchange environment.

Listen to our podcast and learn more about eFTI4EU and how this architecture can transform the transport sector.

For the second episode our special edition podcast ahead of the #EURegionsWeek in Brussels from 9 to 12 October, we spoke to Jorge Barbeiro, who is Head of Mobility Planning and Management at the Porto Metropolitan Area.

Jorge talks about the main transport initiatives for the Porto Metropolitan Area, which acts as a transport authority in the region and how to increase the ridership of passengers, the main objective of the current strategy.

In our special edition podcast episode dedicated to #EURegionsWeek taking place on 9 to 12 October 2023 in Brussels, we had an insightful conversation with Eduardo Vitor Rodrigues, President of Porto Metropolitan Area, a Portuguese region participating at the event for the first time.

In this episode we speak to José Carlos Caldeira, who is a member of the Board of Directors of INESC TEC. Until recently, he was the president of ANI, the National Innovation Agency of Portugal. He was also director of INESC Porto, one of the main ICT research and technology transfer institutes in Portugal.

We ask José about the main working areas and strategies of INESC TEC and how it successfully bridges innovation between academia and business.

Karen Vancluysen has been the Secretary General of Brussels based POLIS Network since September, 2014. POLIS is a network of European cities and regions working together to develop innovative technologies and policies for local transport. We ask Karen about managing mobility policies at local, regional, and national level, and the role of POLIS network for cities and mobility in Europe.