Vasileios Tsiamis
Associate Partner – Head of EU Policies and Access to EU Funding & other Incentives in Greece, Strategy and Transactions

► Vassilis is an Associate Partner at EY Greece - Strategy and Transactions – Head on Access to EU funding and Incentives;
► More than 30 years of experience in EU affairs with special focus on areas such as industrial policy, research development and innovation, access to funding/financing, security and defence, through national and international capacities;
► Vassilis holds a University degree as military engineer from the Hellenic Army Academy, a Master of Arts (MA) degree on Management and Planning at the Hellenic Defence College as well as Master of Arts (MA) degree on International Politics at the Université Paris-Sud; In addition, he holds a Master of Science degree on Electrical and Computer Engineering from Greece. He is an author of articles on European matters;
► He has vast experience on large scale procurement, research, development and technology programmes, both national and multinational (e.g., preparing/managing/implementing contracts, building public-private consortia etc.);
► He has a successful track record on national and multinational projects aiming to obtain public funding at National and European level (ESIF, Innovation Fund Programme, H2020 & Horizon Europe, LIFE Programme, EDIDP/ EDF Programme, EIB etc.);
► Having served in an Agency of the European Council from 2009 to 2019 in senior positions, he has a strong background in EU policies including associated funding instruments such as in the areas of green and digital transition, security and defence industry, cyber, maritime, energy, circular economy, movement and transport, health, space, advance manufacturing, radio spectrum and others;
► He was personally involved since 2013 in EU negotiations at Heads of State and Government level, which provides for a strong EU network and knowledge of relevant processes and modalities;
► He has strong background and experience on partnerships of EU with international actors, both pubic and private including organisations.

Languages
• Greek - mother tongue
• English - fluent Relevant experience
• French – fluent
• Italian/German - basic

► EU funding advisory services for the design and implementation of successful projects under Direct/Indirect and National EU funding schemes:
► Innovation Fund Programme for projects in the fields of Renewable Energy Systems, Hydrogen, Carbon Capture and Storage, etc.
► Connecting Europe Facility Programme for large construction projects in the fields of Transport, Energy and Digital.
► Horizon Europe under various topics
► Strategic investments under the Enterprise Greece
► Greek Development Law
► Recovery Resilience Fund Grants Strand
► Programme manager of multinational programmes;
► Chief national negotiator of the directive 2009/81/EC;
► EU funding advisory services for the continuous assessment
of various companies’ project pipeline, adaptation to the most appropriate funding scheme and preparation and submission of the Grant Applications;
► Main author of the European Technological and Industrial Base strategy as well as the European Research and Technology strategy;
► Programme leader on the prioritisation of technologies in the land and air industrial sectors and their association to available EU funding instruments as well as development of associated business models;
► Project leader for the first ever projects accessed European Structural and Investment Funds for dual use (civ/mil) R&T projects in 2013-2014;
► Policy manager on projects related to sustainability such as GO GREEN, Circular Economy etc.;
► Training of public and private stakeholders in their capacity to carry out European funded proposals;
► Since 2013, contribution and involvement to all EU Summits and Councils, including negotiations and the associated decisions;
► Chief negotiator and manager of EU partnerships with United States, Norway, Switzerland, Republic of Serbia, Ukraine etc. as well as with organisations such as OSCE and UN;.