Martin Schmid is a member of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture. He has been with the EU-Research Policy and Coordination Unit of the Ministry for a number of years.

Within that unit, Schmid is responsible for coordination and legal matters concerning the EU Framework Programs and European R&D policy. His main expertise lies within European law and Austrian administrative law. Since July 2005 Martin Schmid has been working as attaché for scientific affairs at the Austrian Representation to the EU in Brussels. Together with Franz Pichler he was responsible for leading the negotiations on the 7th Research Framework Programme during the Austrian council presidency 2006.

Schmid holds a Master’s degree in Law from the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria.

• The European Institute of Innovation and Technology: The Twin City Headquarters (April 28, 2008)
• Courting the Masterminds - the European Union's Efforts to Attract Researchers (September 28, 2007)
• The First Six Months of FP7 and an Outlook on the Portuguese EU Presidency (July 12, 2007)
• Green Paper on new perspectives for the European Research Area - a new attempt to overcome the fragmentation of Europe's research landscape (April 16, 2007)
• European Institute of Technology - more of the same or a promising tool to fight the European innovation paradox? (December 2006)
• Letter from Brussels, (September, 2006)
• The Seventh Framework Program – Europe’s Next Step Toward the Lisbon Goals (October 5, 2004)