Elena Calzado is Senior International Project Manager at the EU Office of Smart Innovation Norway and EU Advisor for the NCE Smart Energy Markets and Cluster for Applied AI. She has a BS in Chemistry from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has worked for more than 20 years as an R&D consultant, thus involved in national and international R&D projects in different sectors (including energy, transport, agri-food, and environment) as Project Manager and Innovation and Exploitation Responsible, for supporting international organisations, research centres, enterprises and industrial partners in the optimisation of their innovation potential, the identification of opportunities of financing and proposal preparation. She has also worked as a trainer, as a coach for entrepreneurs, and as an external evaluator for the European Commission and the Eureka Network.