Organisation of the SASSPO project

The heart of the project is two policy dialogue workshops organised by MTT and LEI. The organisation of the project is based on a project team, which role is to produce the main project results. There is an advisory board to provide guidance and validate the results.

The project is an initiative of 2 partners. The management of the project is entrusted to the coordinating organisation (MTT), which is the entity proposing the SSA project. The project team is composed of the main contributors to the project from each partner.

- Professor Hilkka Vihinen (MTT)
- Dr. Jyrki Aakkula (MTT)
- M.Sc. Laura Kröger (MTT)
- M.Sc. Kanerva Kuokkanen (MTT)
- Dr. Floor Brouwer (LEI)
- Dr. Huib Silvis (LEI)

The composition of the advisory board:

- Professor Ana Barbic, Dept of Sociology,
  University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Dr Nicolas Durand, INRA, France
- Mr Hayo Haanstra, Ministry of Agriculture,
  Nature and Food Quality, the Netherlands
- Mr Willem-Jan Laan, UniLever
- Dr Ilkka P. Laurila, MTT, Finland
- Professor Franco Sotte, Dept of Agricultural Economics,
  Polytechnic University of Ancona, Italy
- Ms Jela Tvrdonová, representative of rural NGOs, Slovakia
- Ms Daničle Tissot Boireau, DG RTD, Project officer

Updated 04 September 2006