Consortium

The consortium comprised 22 European partners. To comply with the objectives of INSPIRATION, the consortium was built to mobilize a maximum of relevant actors in the Member States, increase policy coherence, resolve trade-offs, manage conflicting interests, increase participation of citizens through NGO involvement in decision-making and improve public awareness and business uptake of research results.

The 22 INSPIRATION partners:
• have substantial experience in soil, land use and land management issues and bring in the needed experience and knowledge gained in other relevant projects and networks
• represent a wide range of public and private stakeholders (funders, researchers and end users of research results)
• represent 16 of 28 EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom) plus Switzerland
• which represents 70 % of the EU population and 75 % of the total area of the EU (without Switzerland).

The initiating partners of INSPIRATION (Coordinator, WP leaders and Core Group Secretary) have substantial experience in managing and coordinating large interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder composed projects. They represent a funding institution (UBA), end users (of research results (UBA, Stadt+) and research organizations (BRGM, DELTARES, UoN, DIU).