The consortium is made up of:

• Crehan, Kusano & Associates.
  
  CKA has extensive experience working with Mediterranean countries in areas linked to innovation and research policy. CKA coordinated the two-year e-Foresee project funded by the European Commission under the EU STRATA program. This project focused on the adoption of foresight as a policy tool in small economies. The final conference of the e-Foresee project was held in Malta and brought together RTD and Innovation policy experts from 5 MEDA partner countries. CKA is also a member of the EU Foresight Knowledge Platform initiative led by the TNO of the initiative. In particular CKA is responsible for the implementation of a web-based system to support the work of the consortium. CKA is currently responsible for the production of the European Innovation Trend-Chart covering Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority. Patrick Crehan will work on the INNFORMED project. He is an expert on foresight. He was convener of AGRIBLUE working group of the European Commission and author of the corresponding ‘Blueprint for Regional Foresight on the Sustainable Development of Rural Economies’. He has organised more than 40 international conferences on RTD, Innovation and Economic Development related issues. He speaks French and maintains an extensive network of professional contacts in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority.
  
• PREST - The University of Manchester.
  
  PREST - Policy Research on Engineering Science and Technology is a Research Centre within Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. It has 50 staff and almost 40 doctoral researchers from around the world. Its mission is to provide impartial, authoritative analysis and information to decision-makers concerned with the economic, political and social implications of science and technology. It is at the forefront of international developments in the governance and management of science and technology. It has experience working with governments on a great range of modern policy issues such as innovation in services, dual use and security technologies, innovation in the water industry, university-industry linkages and reform of public sector laboratories to name but a few. It is one of the leading European authorities on foresight and has extensive experience working in the US, China, Japan, Latin-America and Africa. Along with CKA and the MCST it is a member of the European Foresight Monitoring Network. It recently led the SCOPE2015 initiative to develop scenarios for cooperation with the European Union in the areas of science and technology. CKA and MCST are partners in SCOPE2015 – a part of which deals with scenarios for future EU cooperation with the MEDA region, focusing on Morocco, Tunisia and Jordan - countries targeted in the INNFORMED project. The main experts assigned to this project will be Professor Luke Georghiou - Associate Dean of Research and former Executive Director of PREST - and Dr Michael Keenan a leading expert in foresight.
  
• The Malta Council for Science and Technology.
  
  The MCST is made up a small core permanent staff of young researchers under the direction of a high level Board appointed by the Prime Minister and an advisory Council, composed of prominent members from the public sector and academia with strong representation of the private sector. Set up since 1988 to provide strategic advice to Government on national science, technology and innovation policy, the Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST) has over the years been responsible for identifying and addressing major science and technology challenges and issues of strategic importance for Malta, thereby contributing to the development of coherent and sustainable policy visions and initiatives. In this role, MCST has pioneered visionary approaches to the deployment of science and technology in the Maltese Islands, in particular in the Information and Communications Technologies sector, where a national foresight-type project was launched between 1993-1994.
  In 2005, MCST’s role has been further strengthened through its new location within the Office of the Prime Minister, where it can play a more strategic coordinating role in scientific research and technological innovation through the development of cross-ministerial joined-up policy approaches. MCST is currently working on a major priority-setting exercise based on a wide consultation process, for targeting government investments in the National Research and Innovation Plan to be launched later in 2006. MCST is also the National Contact Point Organisation for FP6 as well coordinating Malta’s representation in the EU Research Council.
  Building on the results of the EU-funded FP5 eFORESEE (www.eforesee.info) project, MCST is currently active in a number of international foresight-related projects and studies, including the ERANET ForSociety, COST Action A22, and Futurreg. MCST is also keen to use its links with neighbouring Mediterranean countries to exchange experiences and know-how in the area of foresight – MCST has represented Malta in the MoCo, since the latter was set up in 1995.The main experts assigned to this project will be Jennifer Cassingena Harper – Director of the Policy Unit at MCST and Lisa Pace - National Contact Point for the Joint Research Centre.