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Friday June 7 2002 the FP-6 Expression of Interest for a Network of Excellence on Management of Uncertainty in science for suSTainability (MUST) has been submitted to Brussels. The proposed consortium exists of 61 partners from 17 countries.

Partners of the MUST initiative can click here to download the full text of the EoI. The required download password has been sent to you via E-mail.

The MUST network aims to establish a pre-eminent European network on the management of uncertainty in science for sustainability. The network intends to increase Europe's capacity to manage and surmount uncertainties surrounding knowledge production and use in designing and implementing precautionary policies and sustainable development. We plan to achieve this by developing a European standard for uncertainty management. This requires harmonisation, standardisation, and integration of technical, participatory, institutional and deliberative approaches to uncertainty management. New in our approach is the utilisation of insights and expertise from the field of institutional analysis and dynamics of the science society interface in the design of effective strategies for the assessment and management of uncertainty in the knowledge base for sustainable policies.

The EoI proposes a consortium of 92 Researchers (25% female, 75% male) from 61 research institutes from 17 countries. It has a core group of 17 partner institutes (numbers 1-17) supported by 44 associated partners.

Nr	Organisation	Country	Chief Scientist printed in bold	Area of Excellence
1	Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation (coordinating institute)	Netherlands	Jeroen van der Sluijs Pieter Glasbergen Penny Kloprogge Martin Patel	Integration of qualitative and quantitative methods; NUSAP; good practice guidance
2	JRC IPSC Applied Statistics (APPST)	Italy	Andrea Saltelli Stefano Tarantola	Formal sensitiviy and uncertainty analysis
3	JRC IPSC Knowledge Assessment Methodologies (KAM)	Italy	Silvio Funtowicz Ângela Pereira Matthieu Craye	Post normal science (PNS), extended peer review, NUSAP, knowledge assessment
4	Research Method Consultancy	UK	Jerry Ravetz	policy critical ignorance
5	Environment & Resources DTU	Denmark	Poul Harremoes	Late lessons from early warnings
6	Deutsches Institut für Europäische Nachhaltigkeitsforschung DIENa geGiG	Germany	Joachim Spangenberg Sylvia Lorek Anke Valentin Ines Omann	participative methods; extended peer processes, scenarios
7	CSEC, Lancaster University	UK	Brian Wynne	'non-expert' knowledge; Public understanding of knowledge/risk
8	NENT	Norway	Matthias Kaiser	Precautionary principle
9	Center of Technology Assessment Akademie fur technikfolgenabschatzung	Germany	Ortwin Renn	Participatory methods Risk research
10	Institute of International Sociology of Gorizia	Italy	Bruna De Marchi	Sociology of disasters; uncertainty perception and communication;
11	European Environment Agency	Denmark	Teresa Ribeiro Sofia Guedes Vaz	Scenarios; prospective analysis; reporting
12	STEM Universiteit Antwerpen	Belgium	Lieve Goorden Marian Deblonde	Science and precaution; interactive methods
13	C3ED Universite de Versailles	France	Martin O'Connor Sylvie Faucheux	Environmental governance; new ICTs and the environment
14	ESRU, Department of Geography, University College London	UK	Jacquie Burgess Gail Davies Judy Clark	Environmental governance; deliberative processes; mass media
15	Inst. for Environmental Sciences and Technology; Univ. autonoma de Barcelona.	Spain	Giuseppe Munda David Tabara Rosa Rovira	Multi criteria analysis Focus groups, Ideal types; Social and Environmental Reporting
16	RIVM MNP	Netherlands	Peter Janssen; Arthur Petersen; Johan Melse	Uncertainty analysis Societal dimensions of uncertainty
17	Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities; University of Bergen	Norway	Roger Strand Ragnar Fjelland	Philosophy of science Democratization of Science
18	Dept. of Chemistry and Biotechnology Agricultural University of Norway	Norway	Deborah Oughton	Philosophy of science, eco-ethics and uncertainty
19	Research Center Karlsruhe/GKSS	Germany	Nico Stehr Armin Grunwald	The uses of social and natural science knowledge
20	Corpus Christi College	UK	Liz Fisher	challenges of scientific uncertainty for administrative law
21	Dept. of Sociology; Univ. of Lancaster	UK	Elizabeth Shove	History of research
22	Environmental Science Lancaster University	UK	Keith Beven Peter C. Young	GLUE method; system analytic approaches
23	IIASA	Austria	Markus Amann Joanne Bayer Yuri Ermoliev	System analytical approaches. Robustness. Risk and fairness
24	SPRU University of Sussex	UK	Andy Stirling	Multi criteria mapping; delebrative mapping; precautionary principle
25	John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University	USA	Sheila Jasanoff	institutional and deliberative methods
26	Env. Informatics and Control Program, University of Georgia	USA	Bruce Beck	Model evaluation; Structural change; Environmental foresight
27	ECN Policy Studies	Netherlands	Ad Seebregts; Remko Ybema; Bob v.d. Zwaan	Hedging
28	RAND Europe	Netherlands	Adnan Rahman Warren Walker	Policy analysis
29	Technical University Delft	Netherlands	Warren Walker	Policy analysis
30	MUT, German Research Centre Juelich	Germany	Peter Wiedemann	Risk communication
31	School of Mathematical Sciences Monash University	Australia	James Risbey	Model Quality Checklists
32	Judge Institute of Management University of Cambridge	UK	Chris Hope	Uncertainty based modelling
33	University of La Laguna	Spain	Serafin Corral	NUSAP, institutional analysis
34	Institute of Marine Research	Norway	Kjellrun Hiis Hauge	Precaution; uncertainty in fishery
35	EcoTerra	Czech Rep.	Bohuslav Blazek	philosophy of uncertainty
36	Saïd Business School, Oxford	UK	Steve Rayner	Application of cultural theory
37	Systems Analysis Laboratory Helsinki University of Technology	Finland	Ahti Salo	participatory methods, sensitivity analyses, expert elicitation
38	Center for Ecological Economics Norwegian Institute for Air Research	Norway	Alena Bartonova	Variability, sensitivity analysis, structural uncertainty
39	INRA-STEPE	France	Claire Marris Pierre-Benoit Joly	public perception of uncertainty, safety regulation
40	Environmental Studies Dept. University of California Santa Cruz	USA	Cathy Fogel	uncertainties in the carbon sinks debate
41	Institute for Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrück	Germany	Claudia Pahl-Wostl	Agent-based Modelling, Participatory methods
42	Centre for Social-Ecology Zurich University of Applied Sciences Fachstelle Sozialökologie	Switzerland	Vicente Carabias-Hütter; Markus Kunz; Herbert Winistörfer	expert-lay-discourse, governance, knowledge transfer
43	National Institute of Research on Food and Nutrition	Italy	Mario Giampietro	Complex systems analysis, multiple-scale analysis
44	Department of Population Medicine University of Guelph	Canada	David Waltner-Toews	complexity and post-normal science
45	Imperial College, London	UK	Bruce Beck	model evaluation; foresight
46	University of Padova	Italy	Marco Borga	Extremes and climate
47	SEI Oxford Office	UK	Thomas E. Downing	Conflicting use of uncertainty
48	Department of Work Environment University of Massachusetts Lowell	USA	Joel A. Tickner	Precautionary principle in action
49	Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione, Politecnico di Milano	Italy	Scira Menoni	risk and uncertainty
50	Mutadis	France	Gilles Heriard Dubreuil	Pluralistic and transdiciplinary perspectives on risk governance
51	University of California	USA	Carl F. Cranor	risk, uncertainty and legal issues
52	Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies	Bangladesh	Atiq Rahman	Good governance, participation, uncertainty and decision making
53	University of Tromsø, Norwegian Institute of Gene Ecology	Norway	Anne Ingeborg Myhr	Safe use of genetic engineering
54	LSE-CATS	UK	Lenny Smith	Uncertainty in complex systems
55	British Antarctic Survey	UK	Brian G. Gardiner	Monitoring; database management
56	Southampton Oceanography Centre	UK	Peter Challenor Peter Killworth, Jochem Marotzke John Shepherd	Uncertainty in ocean and climate models
57	University of Sheffield	UK	Tony O'Hagan	Uncertainty and large numerical models
58	University of Durham	UK	Michael Goldstein Jonathan Rougier	Uncertainty in large numerical models
59	University of Aston	UK	Dan Cornford	Neural computing and uncertainty
60	University of Oxford	UK	Myles Allen	Uncertainty in climate prediction
61	Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics and System Engineering	UK	Robert Leese	Industy-academic interface; modelling, end-to-end forecasting; data-stream analysis.

Our networking initiative is open for new partners. Partners from non-EU countries are also welcome. If you have expertise or skills that can contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the network and want to join, please contact Jeroen van der Sluijs to express your interest.

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