The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a specialist college of the University of London. It was founded in 1895, and officially joined the federal University in 1900 as the Faculty of Economics, beginning to issue its degrees from 1902. Today it is regarded as one of the world's leading academic institutions and remains a specialist single-faculty constituent college of the University, the only such institution in Britain.

Role in the project: LSE coordinates this Support Action and contributes to the dissemination activities, to the transfer of the assessment methodology and to the development of the Research Policy Recommendations.

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A (ENG) works in the IT market since 1980.  It operates in all market segments – banks, insurance, industry, telecommunications, defense, healthcare, central and local public administration, utility and strategic consultancy – offering in each segment technological expertise to develop and manage complex information systems for more than 800 client companies. ENG is the holder of Engineering Group, composed of 12 companies covering, besides system and business integration and outsourcing, the following markets: logistics and security, training, consultancy, services and software development, technologies and products.

Role in the project: As one of the founding members of NESSI (Networked European Software & Services Initiative), ENG will act as facilitator to gather trends, positions, experiences and data related to the software and service market coming from the industrial partners involved in the NESSI initiative. ENG leads the activities on dissemination of the selected projects outputs. ENG also contributes to the activities related to the development of SEQUOIA self assessment methodology, to the dissemination and transfer of the assessment methodology and to the development of the Research Policy Recommendations.

T6 ECOSYSTEMS S.r.l.  (T6 ECO) is a small consulting and research company with extensive experience in participating and co-ordinating national and international research and innovation projects. The T6 ECO mission is to study the development of the Information Society, promoting studies and innovative projects through the use of information and communication technologies. T6 ECO main activities are: strategic consultancy to Public Administrations and private enterprises regarding innovation of process and use of ICT technologies, IT research on Digital Ecosystems and Distributed systems, and software technology transfer and business support for IT access and adoption by SMEs.

Role in the project: T6 ECO leads the activities related to the assessment of the socio-economic impact of the selected projects. T6 ECO alsol contributes to the Impact Assessment methodology development and to the policy recommendations drafting. T6 ECO supports the dissemination activities.

Eurokleis S.r.l.  (EK) is a SME born with the aim to transform the research experience of its founders into specialized strategic consultancy and research studies with the main focus on the use and the deployment of Information, Communication & Media Technologies. EK partners combine their academic background with numerous years of experience in various sectors and offer integrated services which cover all the different aspects involved. EK assists companies and institutions in taking the right decision by offering information and consultancy services concerning the latest developments in the world of technology innovation with special respect to the ICTs.

Role in the project: EK provides its knowledge in order to build the assessment model of the research activities providing the methodology and tools for carrying out the analysis among the projects in the field of IoS and SaaS.