Erika Sela is Senior Consultant and co-founder of Innovatec (www.innovatec.es), a Spanish consultancy firm with a broad and long-term expertise in R&I activities.  She has a bachelor’s degree in Biology. She is now project manager and co-coordinator of the H2020 project EU-Africa PerMed (https://www.euafrica-permed.eu/).  She has over 20 years’ experience in in R&D management in different positions and organizations.  In the last years, her main activity has been dedicated to European projects, participating as both partner and coordinator. She is member of EU-LAC PerMed project and participated in the FP7 research project EVAL-HEALTH, developing new methodologies to monitor the impact of international research projects in Public Health.