Katarzyna Walczyk-Matuszyk

Deputy Director in the National Contact Point for Research Programmes of the EU
Poland

Katarzyna holds a post of the Coordinator of the NCP_WIDE.NET project (financed under Horizon 2020). Katarzyna is a member of the Strategic Committee as well as PC for SMEs and Access 2 Risk Finance and at the European Commission.  On a daily basis Katarzyna supports Centres of Excellence, research institutions, innovative SMEs, start-ups and large companies in obtaining funds for the development of innovation projects under Framework Programmes. Her fields of specialization are innovation, cooperation industry-academia, synergies between EU financial sources and international cooperation. She has a long-lasting experience in management and implementation of the European projects financed under Framework Programmes (FP7, Horizon 2020), Structural Funds and Norway Funds. She is a member of several experts groups dedicated i.a. to synergies and ESIF at the national level.

Katarzyna Walczyk-Matuszyk