Stakeholders
Stakeholder and Advisory Board
The PIANOFORTE Stakeholder and Advisory Board (SAB) is one of the three pillars for the external stakeholder engagement in PIANOFORTE and contributes to the objective that research and innovation activities of PIANOFORTE are better aligned with the values, needs and expectations of stakeholders and society. It gives advice to the PIANOFORTE Executive Board and the Coordinator on the scientific and integrative activities, as well as on the prioritisation process for the research topics to be included in the open calls and the projects funded by PIANOFORTE.
The members of the PIANOFORTE SAB are (in alphabetical order):
Michelle Bloor, President of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Europe and SETAC World Council Member. Expert in pollution remediation, climate change and sustainability and aquatic ecotoxicology.
Silvana Colella, President of European Consortium of Humanities Institutes and Centers (ECHIC) and Board member of the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH). Expert in social sciences and humanities.
Guy Frija, Chair of the European Society of Radiology (ESR). Expert in regulation, research, and application fields in radiation protection.
Ana Frӧbe, member of the Cancer Mission Board. Expert in clinical oncology and Nuclear Medicine
Margarida Goulart, Deputy Head of Unit and Team Leader for nuclear medicine applications and CBRN security of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC). Expert in nuclear medicine applications, occupational medicine and CBRN security (Mrs Roberta Cirillo will act as the JRC replacement person).
Bernard Le Guen, President of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA). Expert in radiation protection, radiation risks, medical biology, and occupational medicine.
Yves Lheureux, Director of the National Association of Local Information Committees and Commissions (ANCCLI). Expert in consultation and dialogue structures that ensure the participation of civil society in issues related with industrial and/or nuclear facilities.
Evgenia Ostroumova, Scientist at the Environment and Lifestyle Epidemiology Branch of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Expert in applied Epidemiology, epidemiological analysis and statistics, public health, and cancer.
Hildegarde Vandenhove, Director of the Division of Radiation, Transport and Waste Safety of the IAEA. Expert in radiation protection of humans and environment, environmental risk assessment and radioecology.
Catharine West, Retired Professor of Radiation Biology at the University of Manchester, and member of the European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology (ESTRO). Expert in radiotherapy-related research and radiation biology.
Becoming a stakeholder
PIANOFORTE partnership aims to connect the diverse set of relevant stakeholders within and outside the radiation protection community to show that radiation protection research influences and improves the lives of all European citizens. You can register as a stakeholder (using the form at the end of this page) to receive further information on PIANOFORTE.
Additionally to the registration, the PIANOFORTE national contact points (i.e. the so called Programme Owners and Managers (POM) and their affiliated entities, please see the list of PIANOFORTE participants) are assigned to facilitate the involvement of national and local stakeholders from their countries. All external stakeholders are encouraged to contact either their countries’ POM or get in contact with the WP3 Stakeholder Engagement Team (pianoforte@bfs.de or Jelena.Popic@dsa.no in case of any questions on PIANOFORTE or ideas on collaboration. The following categories of international and national stakeholders are kindly invited to register for a PIANOFORTE Stakeholder network groups and to actively participate in the partnership:
- International organisations - European policy makers (EC, Article 31 Group of Experts, HERCA, WENRA and others)
- International organisations and associations - Experts in radiation protection and other related disciplines (IAEA, ICRP, UNSCEAR, IRPA, ENA, ERA and others)
- National policy makers and regulatory authorities – ministries, regulatory bodies, including those at regional and municipality levels - from the different European countries
- Implementers – national representatives from nuclear and non-nuclear industries, medical professional associations in hospitals, waste disposal sites, etc.
- Education & Training Community / Universities - academia (research centres, universities, institutes)
- Civil society and affected communities: national, regional, local public organizations gathering impacted public groups, such as but not limited:
- medical patients’ organisations,
- citizens (e.g. citizens science networks; representatives of communities living in areas near legacy sites and of municipalities with nuclear facilities),
- NGOs,
- Media – journalists or other persons in media interested and/or working with radiation protection issues.
Please, do influence the PIANOFORTE project for the benefit of all and register as the stakeholder here:At the moment we register 163 stakeholders (as of July 2025):
| Stakeholder and Advisory Board of PIANOFORTE | 27 |
| International organisations - European policy makers (EC, Article 31 Group of Experts, HERCA, WENRA and others) | 9 |
| International organisations and associations - Experts in radiation protection and other related disciplines (IAEA, ICRP, UNSCEAR, IRPA, ENA, ERA and others) | 24 |
| National policy makers and regulatory authorities – ministries, regulatory bodies, including those at regional and municipality levels - from different EU countries | 34 |
| Implementers – national representatives from nuclear industries, non-nuclear industries, trade organisations, medical professional association in hospitals, waste disposal sites and similar | 40 |
| Education & Training Community / Universities - academia (research centres, universities, institutes) | 73 |
| Civil society and affected communities: national, regional, local public organizations gathering impacted public groups | 5 |
| Medical patients’ organisations | 6 |
| Citizens (e.g. citizens science networks; representatives of communities living in areas near legacy sites and of municipalities with nuclear facilities) | 6 |
| NGOs (focused on different topics) | 6 |
| Media – journalists, persons working in communication area and other media persons interested and/or working with radiation protection issues | 3 |
