INSEA partnership was thought to gather the necessary skills to guarantee the accomplishment of the project objectives. Thus it was necessary to join specialists from different areas such as modelling, physics, biology, data management and publication, local automatic data acquisition, Earth Observation interpretation and data transfer technologies (e.g. communications).

Since the project is founded also on the ability to deliver suitable products to fulfil the needs of the end-users, a strong relation with local stakeholders was envisaged, in order to incorporate the end-user's real needs into the project results.

Having these purposes in mind, different sites and partners were selected; on one hand they represent a wide variety of different problems and end-user's needs (in order to guarantee that the project results will represent solutions for problems with a trans-national dimension) and, on the other hand, it provides the necessary and sufficient skills to give answers to the project's objectives into the project team.