Dolores Melgar Freire

Head of European Policy and Strategy

i2CAT

Barcelona, Spain

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i2CAT

i2CAT

R&D Institution

Barcelona, Spain

i2CAT is a CERCA research and innovation centre based in Barcelona which specializes in advanced digital technologies. Since 2003, i2CAT has been committed to designing and building the future digital society by leveraging the knowledge gained from cutting-edge European and local R&D projects in the fields of 5G/6G, IoT, immersive and interactive technologies, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, blockchain, space communications and digital society technologies. The centre partners with companies, public administration, academia, and end-users to leverage this knowledge in order to meet real social and business challenges.
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About me

As Head of European Strategy and Policy, Dolores leads i2CAT's strategic positioning within the European R&I landscape. She drives the centre's European strategy, advising senior leadership on R&I roadmaps and designing institutional capacity-building programmes aligned with European Commission priorities.

Her expertise lies in shaping institutional strategy, ensuring long-term sustainability, and fostering high-level international collaborations.

Prior to i2CAT, Dolores was the SFI Fellow for International Affairs at Science Foundation Ireland, where she advised on R&I policy and guided the international engagement for the foundation's portfolio of 16 research centres. Her background also includes coordinating funding development and sustainability at Insight, Ireland's Research Centre for Data Analytics.

Dolores holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and a B.Sc. in Physics, a technical foundation that informs her strategic work in the R&I ecosystem.

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Skills

  • European Framework Programmes
  • Advanced Telecommunications Technologies

Interests

  • internet of things
  • Mobile Wireless Internet
  • Cybersecurity
  • Immersive Technologies
  • Blockchain
  • Digital Social Innovation
  • V2X
  • 5g
  • 6g
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • computer vision

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HORIZON-CL4-2024-DATA-01-03 Piloting emerging Smart IoT Platforms and decentralized intelligence (IA)HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-21: Open Source for Cloud/Edge to support European Digital Autonomy (RIA)

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Monday, 4 December 2023

10:00 - 10:45

Pitches A1

Format:In-personLocation:Room A - The LaunchpadTrack:Category: Edge Tech
  • HORIZON-CL4-2024-DATA-01-03 Piloting emerging Smart IoT Platforms and decentralized intelligence (IA)
  • HORIZON-CL4-2024-DATA-01-05 Platform Building, standardisation and Up-scaling of the ‘Cloud-Edge-IoT’ Solutions (CSA)

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