The Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur is a French intercommunal structure, located in the Alpes-Maritimes department and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, around the city of Nice. It was set up on 31 December 2011 and is the result of the merger of the Nice Côte d'Azur urban community (NCA) with three communities of communes in the Alpes-Maritimes2. It includes 51 municipalities and 553,305 inhabitants, on a teritory of 1,479.73 km2. 

GECOsistema is a specialist company providing advanced engineering cloud-web, data-science and modeling studies and services in the field of environmental, climate risk and geospatial intelligence.

We combine advanced data science and machine learning, environmental modelling, GIS and Geospatial Analysis tools, remote sensing, predictive analytics, to give you the critical insight you need into environmental, climate and geospatial issues.

GECOsistema promotes and pursues the development of Innovative products and services through the active participation to EU (Horizon2020/Europe) funded research projects.

 The City of Haarlem is a Coordinator of the Urban Agenda Partnership on Innovative and Responsible Public Procurement, established in 2017. The City of Haarlem has a long-term vision on Circularity, Sustainability, Smart-City, stimulation of SMEs and start-ups. The aim is to procure 100% circular in 2030. This goal can be achieved by using Innovative and Responsible Public Procurement as a strategic tool. 

CORVERS is a leading legal and economic consultancy firm. We act as an advisor and external expert for governmental bodies.
Our added value relies on the complete range of legal services offered (from legal research and analysis to legal consultancy).
Our unique combination between academic research, our expert role towards policy makers and our legal consultancy to contracting authorities; our strong and wide network; and our involvement in a wide range of cutting-edge projects relating to e.g. new policies, new markets, new products or services, new distribution channels and new technologies enables us to fully support our clients – from policy and strategic level to support in the practical implementation of procurement projects.

The French Ministry of Interior (Ministère de l’Intérieur, MININT) is at the heart of the state’s action throughout the country to serve the French people’s needs and meet their expectations in the area of safety and security. The Ministry of Interior is also in charge of relations between the central and local governments.

The Ministry of Interior ensures that law enforcement services (police and gendarmerie) are able to carry out their missions of safeguarding both people and property and managing emergencies and crisis situations (firefighters).

Région SUD is the regional council of the administrative region of Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur in South Eastern France. 

Its activities is to provide public services while promoting general interest of its inhabitants, as well as their well-being and equal chances. 
Third region of France in terms of population, its economic dynamism contributes to French development, as 7% of French GDP is produced in Région SUD.

Région SUD is in charge of policies revolving around daily concerns of its inhabitants, as highschools, vocational training and learning, regional public transports, employement and economic development, culture, sports... 

Région SUD is divided in six "départements" : Alpes-de-Haute Provence, Alpes Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Hautes-Alpes, Vaucluse et Var.

Cannes is a city of 75,000 inhabitants located in the south of France on the French Riviera. The economic environment of the city is based on tourism, business fairs, trade and aviation. Cannes is the host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

The IEEC (Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya) is a research institute that studies all areas of space and space sciences, including astrophysics, cosmology, planetary science, Earth observation, and space engineering. Its mission is to push the frontiers of space research from the scientific and technological domains for the ultimate benefit of society.

The specific objectives are to:

The IEEC ranks among the best international research centers, producing a large number of high-impact publications and leading key world-class projects. This is the result of over twenty years of top-quality research work in collaboration with the top international institutions. The IEEC also develops instrumentation for multiple space missions thanks to a team of engineers with extensive experience in the aerospace sector and in sectors with a high value in innovation. As a a private non-profit foundation, the IEEC can have a versatile relationship with private industries and companies that ultimately fabricate the qualified flight hardware.

Situated in the town of Bamfield, within the traditional territory of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations in Barkley Sound, and adjacent the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, BMSC offers unparalleled access to a wide array of environments – including unique coastal, marine and rainforest habitats and exceptional species diversity.

Perched on the outer west coast of Vancouver Island, BMSC provides access to a remarkable diversity of marine, terrestrial, freshwater and cultural sites of the North East Pacific basin. With 3000 sq m of modern laboratory space it can support research in almost any field of study for all member and non-member users.

BMSC was established in 1972 by the Western Canadian Universities Marine Sciences Society (WCUMSS) in order to provide a permanent base for marine and coastal-oriented field operations on the west coast of Canada. WCUMSS is a not-for-profit, registered Canadian charity that is responsible for the oversight and governance of the BMSC.

Region of Central Macedonia (RCM) is a NUTS 2 local Authority in Greece. For the purpose of this initiative the Region has appointed the Department of Innovation Support of the Directorate of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, to coordinate any actions,, and more specifically the One Stop Liaison Office. O.S.L.O. is the responsible entity for designing, monitoring, implementation and revising of RIS3 of the region. 

Founded in 1992, the European Association of Development Agencies (EURADA) gathers people working on economic development through a large network of 68 members throughout 21 countries in the European Union and beyond.

We connect our members with other regional development agencies, business partners and European authorities.

STOWA (Acronym for Foundation for Applied Water Research) is the centre of expertise of the regional water managers (the Dutch Water Authorities). Its mission is to develop, collect, distribute and implement applied knowledge, essential for an effective and efficient water management. Topics of expertise range from applied technical, scientific to administrative-legal, health and social science. Since 2015 the SAT-WATER program has been installed together with the Waterschapshuis in order to provide earth observation based spatial and temporal information being the Dutch procurement organisation for supporting the daily work and management of the 21 waterauthorities of the Netherlands. (website in Dutch https://www.hetwaterschapshuis.nl/informatie-beschikbaar-stellen).

STOWA with support of The Waterschapshuis is the lead BUYER partner in de PROTECT programme (attached letter of interest for European Water/Climate BUYER organisations, who consider to team up in this initiative)