Stéphane N’DONG started his career as a researcher in the early days of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Aix-Marseille. He worked for the private sector on Industrial and Logistic optimisation for more than 10 years before he joins the European Commission in 2007. He has a great amount of experience on harmonisation of granting practices in EC and corporate IT tools (including the Funding and Tenders opportunity Portal) and he is currently the Head of Unit in DG the Research & Innovation AB6 unit, responsible for the dissemination and exploitation of the results of the Research and Innovation projects funded under FP7 and Horizon 2020 Programmes, as well as for the Data and Knowledge Management for the DG.