Working group composition and timetable

The project was approved by EASAC’s council in November 2019, and EASAC’s member academies nominated experts to form a Working Group in the first quarter of 2020. The work was done from Spring 2020 to Winter 2021, and the report was finalised in Spring 2021.

Co-chairs

Brian Norton, Royal Irish Academy, Ireland Wim van Saarloos, The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands

Working Group members

Name Organisation Nominated by Country

Adisa Azapagic University of Manchester

Neven Duic University of Zagreb Gerhard Fink Aalto University Gunnar Grün Universität Stuttgart The Royal Society

United Kingdom Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Croatia The Council of Finnish Academies Finland

German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Germany

Arild Gustavsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Norway

Hugo Hens KU Leuven

The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts Belgium Soteris Kalogirou Cyprus University of Technology The Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts Cyprus

Andrej Kitanovski University of Ljubljana

The Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Slovenia Jarek Kurnitski Tallinn University of Technology The Estonian Academy of Sciences Estonia Tove Malmqvist Stigell KTH Royal Institute of Technology The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Sweden Maria Nilsson Umeå University The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Sweden Brian Norton Technological University Dublin and Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork Royal Irish Academy Ireland

Michael Ornetzeder The Austrian Academy of Sciences The Austrian Academy of Sciences Austria

Arno Schlüter ETH Zürich František Simančík Slovak Academy of Sciences

Marleen Spiekman Netherlands organisation for Applied Scientific research TNO The Swiss Academy of Sciences The Slovak Academy of Sciences

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Switzerland Slovak Republic The Netherlands

Zsuzsa Szalay Budapest University of Technology and Economics The Hungarian Academy of Sciences Hungary

Jorn Toftum Technical University of Denmark The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters Denmark

Wim van Saarloos InstituutLorentz, University of Leiden

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences William Gillett EASAC Energy Programme Director EASAC secretariat The Netherlands United Kingdom

All Working Group meetings were held by Zoom because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A draft working document was produced using e-mail inputs in Spring 2020, and the first Working Group meeting was held as a kick-off workshop in five sessions on the 4, 8 and 9 June 2020, with invited speakers from the European Commission and other leading stakeholders. Most of the work was done by e-mail, with Working Group meetings on 20 July, 3 September, 10/11 November, 7 December 2020 and 8 February 2021.