The project has assembled an interdisciplinary consortium encompassing Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Sociology, Psychology, and Transportation Technology. Such an interdisciplinary consortium allows us to investigate global properties and emergent phenomena in socio-technical systems from different angles and to include in our investigation all relevant technological, social and psychological factors. It also allows SOCIONICAL to address and integrate a broad range of modelling, simulation and prediction approaches. The consortium also contains companies and public bodies (e.g. strategic planning department of the Italian fire fighters, SmartCare, SICE dealing with monitoring, management and control of large transport facilities, London School of Economics) that can provide realistic scenarios and ensure that the results of the project will influence policy and strategy in relevant areas.

Each partner in the consortium has a well defined role, with some key competences being held my multiple partners. The partners in the consortium can be divided into 4 groups. The largest group of partners come from different areas of Complexity Science and closely related fields. As socio-technical systems per definition involve social/psychological issues and the understanding of the technology each of those topics has a group of partners devoted to it. Finally we have partners who are directly involved with applications related to the SOCIONICAL case studies who will be in charge of providing scenarios, real life data sets, and ensuring that the results of the project lead to relevant guidelines and recommendations for policy makers and industrial decision makers.

SOCIONICAL acknowledges the financial support of the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme within the ICT theme of the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission.