Experience

11/10/2013 – 15/12/2015
Services for Western Macedonia Region for the Planning of the 2014-2020 RIS3
▪ Project manager for the implementation and start-up of the RIS3 plan
www.pepdym.gr

08/5/2019 – 07/02/2020
Business or sector: Urban Planning

10/06/2015 – today
Urbact Validated Lead Expert
▪ Lead expert in assisting European cities networks to develop pragmatic solutions that are new and sustainable and that integrate economic, social and environmental urban topics
Business or sector: Urban Planning
www.urbact.eu/karamarkos

04/04/2018 – today
RU:RBAN Project Lead Network Expert for the City of Rome
▪ Lead expert for supporting the Ru:rban project under URBACT III (Transfer Network)
Business or sector: Urban development
https://urbact.eu/rurban

01/09/2016 – today
Council of Europe /Centre of Expertise for Local Government Reform
▪ National expert on Best Practise in local government project
Business: Entrepreneurship Expert for Urban areas
https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal

01/03/2017 – 02/05/2020
Technical Advisor
▪ Project manager for consulting services of a freelancers teamfor (2) Municipalities that Integrate Urban Strategies in the context of ERDF Article 7for the ROP 2014-2020 (Grevena and Florina)
Business: Western Macedonia ERDF OP 2014-2020

02/01/2011 – onwords
Project manager for Regional Development Fund of Attica (RDFA) and Western Macedonia (RDFWM), University of Western Macedonia (UoWM), Region of North Aegean
▪ Projects implementation & management – Interreg Europe (IE) & IVC Projects – Former experience from 1991

• • Smart + / Innovation and SME’s
  • Locfood / Innovation, SME’s in Food Industry
  • Difass / SME’s Alternative funding methods
  • Histcape / Preventing cultural heritage in rural areas
  • Inact / SME’s cross border cooperation in exporting
  • Reborn / SME’s 2nd Chance Entrepreneurship
  • Epicah / Cross border development based on cultural & natural heritage
  • Super / SME’s eco-innovation & internationalisation
  • Finerpol / Financial instruments in RES in public buildings
  • Islands of Innovation / Innovation & Research & internationalisation
  • E-Cool / Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Mind-set in Young People through the Dynamisation of Competences, Teaching Methodologies and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
  • Fridge / Development of food industry SME competitiveness for better potentials in growth
  • Scale Up / Supporting concentration and robustness of SMEs within the renewed EU industrial policy (SG Member – IE Expert)
  • BigData4Rivers / Improving the European Rivers Water Quality through Smart Water Management Policies (SG Member – IE Expert)
  • E-Mob / Integrated actions towards enhanced e-mobility in European regions (Peer Reviewer)

Business or sector: RIS3 -SME’s development and innovation -Cultural heritage management–Urban & regional planning 2020

01/01/2001 – 31/12/2007
Consulting Services
▪ Project manager
Business or sector: ERDF OP “Information Society” 2000-2006& RWM ROP 2000-2006
www.kkc.gr

01/01/2007 – 31/12/2013
Consulting Services
▪ Project manager for projects funded by the Western Macedonia ROP 2007-2013
▪ Western Macedonia ROP 2007-2013 Exante Assessment
Business or sector: Programmatic Period 2007-2013
www.kkc.gr

01/01/2002 – onwoards
Project manager for projects funded by Hellenic NSRF
▪ Project implementation
Business or sector: Regional Development
www.kkc.gr

01/01/1992 – 31/12/1994
Technical construction manager
▪ Supervising engineer VORAS S.A.
Business or sector: Dairy Industry
www.kkc.gr