SEAMLESS Association Organization

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The SEAMLESS Association consists of a Board, chaired by a co-ordinator, a Technical Committee, chaired by an executive manager, a General Assembly, and an Advisory Forum.

Board

The board consists of five members from different partners and decides on the aims and mandate of the SEAMLESS Association. The board identifies suitable satellite projects and initiates activities in case of interesting opportunities. It also decides on tasks for executive manager and technical committee. Current board members are:

  1. Martin van Ittersum, chairman. (Wageningen University, Plant Production Systems)
  2. Thomas Heckelei (University of Bonn, Institute for Food and Resource Economics)
  3. Erling Andersen (University of Copenhagen, Forest and Landscape)
  4. Jan-Erik Wien (Alterra, Centre for Geo-Information)
  5. Jacques Wery (Cirad-Inra-SupAgro, UMR SYSTEM)

Technical Committee

Members of the Technical Committee act as a contact point for each of the components and they maintain an overview of the developments for their components. Technical Committee members are not responsible or available to provide provide full-time support for their component, but some support might be agreed on between a satellite project and the board. Current Technical Committee members are:

  1. Sander Janssen, Alterra (Executive Manager, FSSIM)
  2. Rob Knapen, Alterra (GUI, Open-MI, service layer, model execution)
  3. Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, IDSIA (Knowledge Manager, ontologies)
  4. Lorenzo Ruinelli, IDSIA (GUI, Open-MI, service layer, model execution)
  5. Erling Andersen, University of Copenhagen (Database)
  6. Marcel Adenauer, University of Bonn (CAPRI/EXPAMOD)
  7. Irina Bezlepkina, LEI (EXPAMOD/Indicators)
  8. Eelco Meuter, Wageningen University (APES)
  9. Frits van Evert, PRI (APES)

General Assembly and Advisory Forum

The General Assembly is composed of representatives from all Developer members. Tasks of the General Assembly are deciding on aims and mandate of Association proposed by the Board, changes to the Association Agreement and deciding on the composition of the Board. The Advisory Forum is composed of representatives from all Developer and User-members and it advises the Board on the extensions and new versions of SEAMLESS-IF, future satellite research projects to be initiated and specific extensions, applications or maintenance issues.