University of Alcala (UAH) - http://www.uah.es, http://www.ieru.org/

The University of Alcalá, (UAH, http://www.uah.es) whose origins date back to the year 1499, is currently one of the medium-sized Spanish universities, with 15 faculties and more than twenty thousand students. It is located approximately 30 km. outside of Madrid, in the city of Alcalá de Henares, named a World Heritage site by UNESCO in December 1998, in recognition of the fact that Alcalá was the first university town, planned as such, in the world.

Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - http://www.fao.org

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information, and helps developing countries and countries in transition modernise and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices, ensuring good nutrition and food security for all. Its Latin motto, fiat panis, translates into English as "let there be bread". As of 8 August 2008, FAO has 191 members states along with the European Union, Faroe Islands and Tokelau which are associate members. It is also a member of the United Nations Development Group.

National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) - http://www.infn.it

INFN is the Italian National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics. Founded in 1952, INFN is a governmental research organization, which promotes, co-ordinates and funds nuclear, particle and high-energy physics research. INFN staff research personnel amounts to about 2000 employees with an equivalent number of associates from University and other Scientific National Institutes.

Research activity at the INFN is carried out at: 20 Divisions (Sezioni) each located at a university physics department, 4 National Laboratories and a National Centre.

Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft (SRFG) - http://www.salzburgresearch.at/en/

Salzburg Research is the non-profit research organisation of the State of Salzburg. Since 1996 the company conducts applied technological and socio-economic research in ICTs. Main application sectors are digital media, tourism and transport, health, culture and education.

SRFG has four departments that specialize in research on ICT innovation, users and organizational impact, Semantic Web systems and services for knowledge workers, location-based services, and QoS-based internet technologies. SRFG is also certified according to the ISO 9001:2000 quality management standard.

Institute of Physics, Belgrade (IPB) - http://www.ipb.ac.rs/, http://www.scl.rs/

The Institute of Physics Belgrade (IPB) was founded in 1961 by the government of the Republic of Serbia with a mission to conduct high quality research in the area of physics. At present it contributes more than 10% of the total scientific output of the country. IPB is highly recognized research institute at the EU level, being host to four EU Centers of Excellence: CX-CMCS (Centre of Excellence for Computational Modeling of Complex Systems), OPSA (Centre of Excellence for Optical Spectroscopy Applied in Physics, Material Science and Environmental Protection), IPB-CNP (Reinforcing Experimental Centre for Non-Equilibrium Studies with Application in Nano-Technologies, Etching of Integrated Circuits and Environmental Research), and QUPOM (Reinforcing the Centre for Quantum and Optical Metrology).

Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (SZTAKI) - http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu, http://www.sztaki.hu/?en

MTA SZTAKI - as a key research institute in grid technologies is a founding member of the Hungarian Grid Competence Centre and the National Grid Initiative, and coordinates several European Grid projects in the 7th Framework Programme (EDGI, DEGISCO, SHIWA, SCI-BUS).

As a part of MTA SZTAKI, mission of Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems is two-fold in grid research:

Agro-Know Technologies (AK) - http://wiki.agroknow.gr

Agro-Know Technologies (AgroKnow) is a research-oriented enterprise that focuses on knowledge-intensive technology innovation for agriculture and rural development. AgroKnow develops systems and services for agricultural knowledge organization and delivery, using semantic web technologies and Web 2.0 tools. It also explores their deployment and testing in application domains such as education & training, commerce, and public administration. AgroKnow services and products are aligned with international standardization efforts, such as the Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) initiative of the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, and the European Committee for Standardization (CEN).

21c Consultancy (21c) - www.21cconsultancy.com

21c is a female owned and operated SME with an established track record in delivering successful European eGovernment projects. The team is Prince2 and Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) qualified, and has helped national and local public administrations across Europe develop and implement eGovernment policy for over a decade.

21c specialises in using state-of-the-art communications, research and project management techniques to help public sector actors take maximum advantage of ICT trends and developments. The company was formed by the senior management of Accenture eDemocracy Services –the world’s only Fortune 500 business unit devoted exclusively to eParticipation - and is led by Dr Julia Glidden, a published lecturer and speaker on social media and public service innovation.

Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL) - http://www.espol.edu.ec

ESPOL, a non profit public institution of higher education, was established in Guayaquil Ecuador, the capital of the Guayas Provincein November 11, 1958. At the beginning ESPOL started with: Naval Engineering and Mining and Petroleum Engineering. Soon, the dynamic development of the country and the industry, led to the creation of undergraduate programs in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Later on, several graduate programs have been added. ESPOL has also broadened its community outreach e-strategies for promoting knowledge based local development. Currently, ESPOL has around 16,000 students and several research programs in areas such as, Information Technologies, Biotechnology, Material Science, Aquaculture, Environmental Sciences and other knowledge domains.

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) - http://aii.caas.net.cn/

CAAS, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences，is the nation’s major player in agricultural research area. Agricultural Information Institutes (AII), one of the institutes of CAAS and established in 1957, is a nonprofit research institute at national level. AII’s mission is to undertake scientific innovation in the field of agricultural information and to provide agricultural sci-tech information services. AII is devoted itself into three major scientific research fields of ICT application in agriculture, agricultural information management and agricultural information analysis. AII is also the national agricultural sci-tech documentation center as being the National Agricultural Library. Now, AII has 20 divisions and 319 staff. The National Agricultural Library with AII has a collection of 2.1 million copies of books and journals.

The Open University (OU) - http://www.open.ac.uk

The Open University is a world leader in distance education. Currently, it has around 150,000 undergraduate and more than 30,000 postgraduate students. It has educated more than 2 million people since its launch in 1969. The Open University enjoys an international reputation for the quality of its research in many fields.

Within the Open University, the Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) brings together researchers from many branches of computing. The CRC includes the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), the Institute for Educational Technology (IET) and academic staff from the Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology.