Organisation

Country

Chief Scientist

Area of Excellence

Role in Project

1

U. of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD)

Ireland

Hilary TOVEY

Sustainable food production and consumption;  rural environmental issues

Co-ordinator;  Regional Co-ordinator; country team/case-study leader

2

Gothenburg University

(UGOT)

Sweden

Karl BRUCKMEIER

Rural governance,  problems and processes in sustainable development

Management team member;  Regional Co-ordinator; country team/case-study leader

3

Institute for Political Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

(IPSHAS)

Hungary

Imre KOVACH

Power  and restructuring in rural society;  CEE agrarian futures

Management team member;  Regional Co-ordinator; country team/case-study leader

4

UDERVAL-UVAL

Spain

Javier ESPARCIA

Rural development, 

socio-economic 

processes of 

change

Assistant to Co-

ordinator; 

Regional Co-ordinator;
country team/

case-study leader

5

Consortium of U. of Krakov, U. of Lodz

(UKL)

Poland

Kzrysztof GORLACH Pawel STAROSKA, Andrzej PILICHOWSKI

Rural community/civil society

Country team/case-study leaders

6

U. of Napoli, U. of Trieste

(DTSEP)

Italy

Maria FONTE,

Giorgio OSTI

Rural civil society, social capital

Country team/case-study leader

7

Agricultural U. of Athens

(AUA)

Greece

Charalambos KASIMIS

Rural economy, rural development

Country team/case-study leader

8

U. Technica de Lisboa

(UTL)

Portugal

Isabel RODRIGO

Rural sociology

Country team/case-study leader

9

U. of Aberdeen

(UAB)

Scotland

Mark SHUCKSMITH

Renewable energy in rural development processes

Country team/case-study leader

10

Centre for Rural Research

(CRR)

Norway

Karoline DAUGSTAD, Gunn Turid KVAM

Rural development, sociology of food and agriculture

Country team/case study leader

11

ZALF, Muencheberg

(ZALF)

Germany

Rosemarie SIEBERT, Axel DOSCH, Lutz LASCHEWSKI (Rostock)

Transformations in rural east Germany after unification

Country team/case study leader

12

Czech U. of Agriculture

CZUA

Czech Republic

Vera MAJEROVA

Small  rural entrepreneurship

Country team & case study leader