Jürgen Tiedje, working with the European Commission since 1992; German nationality.
Between January 2017 and March 2021, he has been in charge of a unit focusing on advanced manufacturing, energy intensive industries, energy efficient buildings and biotechnologies in DG Research and Innovation. Since 1st April 2021 he is Head of Unit for Industrial Transformation in the Prosperity Directorate. The unit is in charge of preparing work programmes in the cluster “digital, industry, space” under Horizon Europe. This preparatory work includes relations with different partnerships, namely Made in Europe on advanced manufacturing, Processes4Planet on process manufacturing/energy intensive industries, Innovative Materials for the European (I’M4EU) and the Clean Steel Partnership. The unit is in charge of the EU Advanced Materials Strategy, including the preparation of the future EU Advanced Materials Act, the policy on safe and sustainable by design chemicals and advanced materials, the public public partnership PARC as to chemical risk assessment. The unit is also dealing with the Research Fund for Coal and Steel – a fund run outside European Framework Programmes – as well as the European Metrology Partnership with Member States.
