Veronika Erős is responsible for clean and emission-free bus purchase coordination under the Clean Vehicle Directive at the Hungarian Transport Science Institute. Also, she is the CEO and Cluster Manager of ZONE Cluster on behalf of which she has been having her second 3-year term as deputy-chair of the Managing Board of the EIT Urban Mobility KIC since 2020. Between 2019 and 2022 she was leading the Green Bus Project Office, which was taking care of the implementation of the Green Bus Pilot Project in Hungary and thus the preparation of the Green Bus Programme of Hungary. As Founder of ZONE Cluster she had started to develop the East Hub Accelerator of EIT Urban Mobility to offer professional business development services for the Mobility related start-ups who are looking for the answers for the challenges of transport in urban environments. She obtained Economist BA in Economic Diplomacy and International Management at Budapest Business School and studied Regional and Environmental Economics MA at the University of West Hungary/Szent István University. Having 15+ years of experience in the field of renewable energy utilization, rural development and business development, she has been participating in the creation and development of two clusters (ZONE & agroIT) in Hungary. Previously, while working as Director of Business Development at the former Hungarian Export Promotion Agency, she obtained a network of a number of business development and SME supporting stakeholders worldwide. She was former NCP for IEE and LIFE/LIFE+ programmes and now evaluates RDI proposals for the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Horizon Europe and European Innovation Council.