Margit Noll (FFG)
Management Board Chair – Strategy and Coordination
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Margit Noll is Chair of the Management Board of JPI Urban Europe since 2015. She has been involved in the development of the JPI Urban Europe from the beginning in 2009 and is in charge of the strategic development and the implementation of the programme, comprising international outreach, establishment of strategic partnerships and of a stakeholder involvement. Margit has 15 years’ experience in research management and strategy development. Until 2016 she was also responsible for Corporate Strategy at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. She has a PhD in physics and a MBA in general management. Margit is employed by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG

Katarina Schylberg (IQS)
MB Communication & Dissemination
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Katarina Schylberg is a member of JPI Urban Europe management since 2015 leading the communication and dissemination activities with a particular focus on organizing events and dissemination of results from research projects and JPI UE activities. Katarina is employed at IQS (The Swedish Centre for Innovation and Quality in the Built Environment) since September 2012 and has been involved in JPI Urban Europe since 2013. She has twenty years of experience of working in the field of urban sustainable development, from private and public sector, most recently as a special advisor at the Swedish Delegation for Sustainable Cities (2008-2012) appointed by the Swedish government. Katarina holds a MA in Landscape Architecture from the Swedish Agricultural University and a research licentiate degree in Architecture and Infrastructure from Luleå University of Technology.

Johannes Riegler (FFG)
Stakeholder Involvement Officer
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Johannes’ main responsibility in JPI Urban Europe is to bring diverse knowledge(s) and experiences on urban transitions together. As the manager of AGORA – JPI Urban Europe’s Stakeholder Involvement Platform, he designs and runs processes aiming at bringing research communities, public urban administrations, urban change makers and anyone enthusiastic about the sustainable urban futures together to exchange and co-create. These multi-actor processes aim at building capacities for co-creating pathways for urban transitions. Johannes also works with matters of internationalization beyond Europe and the conceptual work around urban living labs. He is an urbanist and a geographer and conducted studies in Brussels, Vienna, Copenhagen, Madrid, Budapest and Klagenfurt.

Christoph Gollner (FFG)
Coordinating Programme Manager of PED Programme
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Christoph Gollner is Coordinating Programme Manager for the SET Plan Action 3.2/JPI Urban Europe Programme on Positive Energy Districts and Neighbourhoods for Sustainable Urban Development (PED Programme) for JPI Urban Europe since 2018, coordinating operational programme activities, involvement of stakeholders/cities and content-related development of the PED Programme (PED mapping, PED framework), as well as (co-)organizing events and meetings. He is graduate engineer in spatial and urban planning and has been working for the Austrian Academy of Sciences and in urban revitalization for the City of Vienna.

Arjan van Binsbergen (TU Delft)
MB Joint Calls, Coordination FAWG
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Arjan van Binsbergen is member of the JPI Urban Europe Management Board since 2013 and responsible for the Joint Calls. He has been involved in JPI Urban Europe from the beginning in 2009, first as representative for the Netherlands’ funding agency Dinalog, later as chairman of the Funding Agencies’ Working Group (FAWG).  Arjan has some 15 years’ experience in supporting interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary programmes. His was advisor for strategic transport and mobility plans of the Netherlands Ministry of Transport and various transport conferences. At the TU Delft he is associated professor and from there seconded to NWO.

Gilda Massa (ENEA)
MB Alignment Activites
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Gilda Massa is member of JPI Urban Europe Management Board from 2016 as responsible of Alignment Activities. Gilda is an Engineer (Management Engineer) and she worked for the International Labour Organization as coordinator of activity for international cooperation of Campania Region and senior expert for strategical analysis of National and Regional Programmes with the aim of strengthen opportunity and synergies. Since 2006 she is a researcher at ENEA – the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, and is in charge of projects of interoperability and optimization of industrial networks. Gilda also works with smart energy community projects and how solutions based on block chain can improve the cooperation and circular economy of citizens, and of networks of small and medium-sized enterprises.