Consortium

The consortium constitute a co-ordinating board leaded by the project co-ordinator and includes al least one partner directly involved in reforestation issues per participant country, as well as an environmental NGOs' representative. Focal points in Annex-IV EU countries constitute a Steering Committee.

National working groups in the participants countries, constituted by the national partners and specialists related to reforestation from different sectors (research centres, engineering companies, NGOs, and representatives of Administrations), provide the adequate knowledge of the existing projects and participates in the various steps of the project development: consultation and seminars, and local dissemination activities.

An external advisory panel, with representatives of relevant organisations (IUFRO, FAO-Silva Mediterranea, IUCN) and experts, contributes to the quality assurance of REACTION project by reviewing major project outcomes and participating in the REACTION workshops.

	FUNDACION CEAM Fundación Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterráneo (Mediterranean Centre for Environmental Studies), Valencia, Spain Responsible scientist: Ramon Vallejo (project co-ordinator) Parque Tecnológico, C/ Charles R. Darwin 14 46980 Paterna (Valencia) SPAIN Phone: +34-6 131 82 27 Fax: +34-6 131 81 90 E-mail:ramonv@ceam.es http://www.ceam.es
	Centro Interdipartimentale di Ateneo NRD Nucleo Ricerca Desertificazione, Università di Sassari, Sardinia, Italy Responsible scientist: Giuseppe Enne Via Enrico de Nicola, 9 07100 Sassari - Italia Phone.: +39 079 229304 - Fax: +39 079 229302 E-mail: nrd@uniss.it http://www.uniss.it/nrd/
	AUTH Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Department of Foresrty and Natural Environment, Laboratory of Silviculture. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Responsible scientist: Athanasios Hatzistathis P.O. Box 262 University Campus P.C. 540 06 - Thessaloniki - GREECE Phone:+ 30 31 998.911 Fax: +30 31 998.881. E-mail: thanos@ccf.auth.gr http://www.auth.gr/forestry
	ISA Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisboa. Portugal Responsible scientist: Manuel Madeira Phone: +351 21 365 3270 Fax: +351 21 363 5031 E-mail: aa15309@isa.utl.pt http://www.isa.utl.pt/
	IAMZ Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza P.O. Box 202, 50080 Zaragoza Phone: 34 976 57 60 13 Fax: 34 976 57 63 77 http://www.iamz.ciheam.org/
	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) - Department of Dynamics of Ecological Systems, Group Restoration Ecology Group. France Responsible scientist: James Aronson E-mail: aronson@cefe.cnrs-mop.fr http://www.cefe.cnrs-mop.fr
	WWF-France Responsible scientist: Daniel Vallauri http://www.wwf.fr