The Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, AEMET, is the State Agency under the Spanish Ministry of Environment responsible for the official activities related to meteorology and climatology in Spain, including weather information for general purposes. AEMET retains exclusive responsibility for the main meteorological infrastructure in the whole territory of Spain, international exchange, aviation and maritime services as well as the meteorological support to Defence. The total staff is over 1.400; about 600 out of them have University master degrees.
WSP is an international, leading consultant firm for professional services in transport, infrastructure, industrial, environmental and energy projects, with over 30.000 employees and offices in about 40 countries on five continents. WSP is a suitable partner of choice for co-operation in this project because of our extensive experience in stormwater investigations. WSP Sverige has a staff of over 50 persons working with issues related to hydraulic and/or hydraulic modelling.
Acciona Corporation has a wide experience in R&D projects at national, European and international (beyond Europe) level. At European level, Acciona plays an active role in the European Construction Technology Platform being part of its Executive Committee, leading the Energy Efficient Buildings PPP (being member of the Partnership Board with the EC) and it is a member of reFINE (initiative on infrastructures) and ECTP’s Advisory Group on SMEs.
Smart Cities Consulting GmbH is a privately held SME based in Vienna, Austria.
The County Administrative Board of Jönköping (CABJON) is a Governmental Agency that link People and Communities with the Government, Parliament and Central Government. The main responsibility is to coordinate the development of the county in line with goals set in National Politics, including different issues - from rural development to biodiversity. Sweden consists of 21 counties.
Centro de Estudios y Experimentación de Obras Públicas (CEDEX), Centre of Studies and Experimentation in Public Works in English, was created in 1957 as an autonomous organisation that at present reports to the Ministry of Public Works and functionally to the Ministries of Public Works, and Agriculture and Environment of Spain, in the sphere of their respective competences.
The City of Linz (193.800 people, spatial extension 196.048 km2, density 990 inh./km2), capital of the Province of Upper Austria is organized into 9 districts and 36 statistical quarters. Of the approximately 96 km² area 29.27% are grassland, 17.95% forest, 6.39% water, 11.63% are traffic areas and 34.76% are building land. The urban area includes (parts of) 13 other municipalities with together 271,000 inhabitants.
cismet GmbH is an open source software company specialised in providing user-tailored, highly integrated and interactive solutions for distributed geo-spatial applications. Cismet personnel can be considered experts in the field of Environmental Decision Support Systems and Geospatial Application Design and Development. With a strong research profile, the company aims at transforming the latest ICT research results into solutions which are usable by real world end users.
The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria's largest non-university research institute, employing a staff of about 1260 persons, takes a leading position in the Austrian innovation system in the areas of Energy, Mobility, Health & Environment, Safety & Security as well as Innovation Systems and has a key role in Europe as the RTO focusing on the key infrastructure topics of the future. AIT is heavily engaged in contract research for government and industry.
