Marcos Jareño is a civil engineer specialised in the areas of transport and urban services. He joined Zabala Innovation in 2016 as an innovation consultant in the Brussels office; where he provides EU positioning services to large corporations, mainly focused on the industrial and energy sectors, analysing the different trends and action lines in R & D & I in the different EU funding programmes. Since 2017, he has been preparing and coordinating EU project proposals for different organisations in diverse fields, mainly focused on the area of energy and sustainability.
Marcos has extensive experience in managing EU initiatives. Since he joined Zabala, he has been actively involved in SINFONIA – a 6-year large-scale (€ 43M) Smart Cities project funded by EC DG Energy, that implemented integrated, adaptable and large-scale energy solutions in medium-sized European. For 4 years, Marcos acted as coordinator of the project office, in charge of the administrative and financial management.
As of mid-2020 Marcos is the coordinator of BRIDGE, a EC DG Energy initiative that brings together the energy projects funded in the areas of Smart Grids, Energy storage, Islands and Digitization to support the EC to create a structured vision of cross-cutting issues raised in the implementation of the different projects.
Social challenges
The START-IN project focuses on developing new educational approaches in social entrepreneurship to bridge the digital divide between teachers and...
Climate, Natural Resources and Environment
GO-GRASS will develop a new circular and integrated agri-food system whose main application will be in grasslands and which will...
Digitisation
The LT Observatory project (Observatory for Language Resources and Machine Translation in Europe), coordinated by ZABALA, arises from the need...
To maximise the success and impact of a project, we manage the communication and dissemination activities, but we also define a social innovation strategy and tools to measure its impact.
We collaborate with public administrations to promote innovation and assist companies in integrating innovation into their overall strategy.
We can help you with cascading funding, an EC mechanism to distribute public funding to help SMEs developing digital innovation.
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