Raluca Buțurcă, Phd Email & Phone Number

Bucharest, Ro

Contributes to the development of the draft European Sustainability Reporting StandardsParticipates to EFRAG Sustainability Reporting Technical Expert Group meetings

Bucharest, Romania

Within 10Ability.eu, Raluca is currently coordinating a team of 5 other members having great professional international experience in Big4 firms and central administration, with skills varying from advanced modelling to in-depth audits and sustainability advisory and review. She continuously supports her team members by transferring solid knowledge to them and inspires her colleagues to perform better every day.• Sustainability reports preparation and review;• EU taxonomy assessments for sustainable activities;• Sustainability maturity assessments;• Climate change risk assessments;• Sustainable development and NET ZERO strategies elaboration;• Carbon footprint calculations and Life Cycle Assessments;• Outcomes measurement and valuation (SROI, SEIS);• Stakeholder engagements;• Materiality analysis process (identifications & prioritization), among others.

Romania

I had the opportunity to serve as a sustainability lecturer for CECCAR - The Body of Expert and Licensed Accountants of Romania, focusing on the legal requirements of Sustainability Reporting. It was an enriching experience to contribute to the education and understanding of sustainability practices in the accounting profession. Looking forward to continuing to promote sustainability initiatives within the business environment!

Contributes to the development of articles, studies and reports on climate corporate governanceParticipates to Climate Governance Initiative Content and Communications Leads meetings

Bucharest, Romania

• Involved in providing sustainability services for clients in Romania and Africa. Solutions include sustainability diagnostics, current state assessments, benchmarking exercises, sustainability strategy roadmaps, materiality analysis, stakeholder engagement.• Leads projects in sustainability (non-financial) reporting advisory using GRI standards.• Overall professional experience reflects a thorough understanding of sustainability management and reporting.• In charge with elaborating audit procedures for environmental contribution.• Performs vendor and buyer due diligence assessment on environmental contribution for FMCG sector and retail industry. The projects involve: - Interviews with the responsible employees of the Companies - Assessment on the relevant internal procedures regarding environmental contribution - Analyze contracts and supporting evidence from the client - Data processing and interpretation - Risk identification• Leads projects in waste management resulting packaging database creation and data management system implementation.• Continuously supports international companies to optimize recycling liabilities through IPR (individual producer responsibility).

Bucharest, Romania

Raluca was part of the knowledge and job transfer team from the Arcelor Mittal headquarter in Luxembourg to Romania.• Purchasing raw materials and ferroalloys for mills in Poland, Czech Republic, Italy and Bosnia from European and Canadian suppliers;• Creating and maintaining the relationship with suppliers and clients;• Managing the needs of clients and ensuring that these are met;• Analysing all suppliers in order to select the most suitable ones, who are able to deliver high quality products at competitive pricing;• Negotiate with suppliers on lead-time, cost and quality;• Manage suppliers to meet objectives related to cost, delivery performance, schedule and quality.

Galati County, Romania

Research activities:• Biofuel production;• Life Cycle Assessment of biofuels for diesel engines and biomass;• Life Cycle Assessment of biomass production;Didactic activities:• Biofuels;• Radiation sources and protection methods;• Intellectual Property Rights.

Barcelona Area, Spain

• Project: Low input systems for short term woody crops: development and assessment of weed management tactics and strategies (LOW INPUT): Life Cycle Assessment of biomass production in order to optimize and reduce costs;• Research activities: Life Cycle Assessment of biofuels for diesel engines.

Barcelona Area, Spain

• Research activities in the domain of biofuels;• Life Cycle Assessment of biofuels for diesel engines;• Life Cycle Assessment of solid biomass.

Galati County, Romania

FP7 - Integrated micro CCHP - Stirling Engine based on renewable energy sources for the isolated residential consumers from South-East region of Romania (m-CCHP-SE) – RO 0054:• Research of methods to further improve environmental performance of the energy system;• Measurement of environmental parameters;• Measurements onsite of Stirling engine emissions as part of the energy system of the house built under the project;• The analysis, interpretation and reporting of experimental data obtained.South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme – IPRforSEE:• Organizing and presenting seminars on Intellectual Property Rights;• Consulting SMEs on Intellectual Property Rights and Protection.CIP - Enterprise Europe Network:• Co-organizing of brokerages, company missions, trades and fairs;• Organizing and presenting seminars on funding options available for SMEs;• Organizing and presenting seminars on Intellectual Property Rights;• Consulting clients on innovation and internationalization, IPR, funding options;• Creating and updating BCD and BBS profiles;• EOI managing;• Update of the EEN’s website;• Designing the triannual newsletter.SOP HRD – DACIE:• Creating the regional database;• Organizing seminars on: - eco efficiency and eco design; - alternative sources of energy promotion; - innovation and technology transfer;• Managing the project at a local level.

Simapro Advanced, Life Cycle Assessment; Carbon Footprint, Eco-Design

▪ Carbon footprint of biomass and biofuels ▪ Life Cycle Assessment of biomass and biofuels ▪ Eco-design ▪ Software SimaPro.

Phd. Mechanical Engineering And Environmental Protection, Carbon Footprint & Life Cycle Assessment

▪ Carbon footprint of biomass and biofuels ▪ Life Cycle Assessment of biomass and biofuels ▪ Eco-design

Simapro Practitioner, Life Cycle Assessment

Summer school ▪ Use of SimaPro software; ▪ Preparation of studies to evaluate the life cycle of products.

Diplomate Environmental Engineer, Thermal Systems And Environmental Engineering, 9.50

▪ Biofuels for diesel engines; ▪ Wastewater treatment methods; ▪ Noise pollution combating methods; ▪ Environmental policy; ▪.

Diplomate Environmental Engineer, Engineering And Environmental Protection In Industry, 9.35

▪ Biogas production; ▪ Biofuels for diesel engines; ▪ Wastewater treatment methods; ▪ Environmental policy. Dissertation entitled.

Waste Manager, Strategies, Applications And Methodologies Of Waste Recovery, 10

Activities and Societies: SAMWARESummer school – Erasmus Intensive Programme