The partner institutions span a wide range: meteorology, hydrology, hydraulic engineering, geotechnics, water resources management, economics, political sciences, social sciences, mathematics, statistics and geoinformatics. The academic partners have complementary expertise, experience in fruitful collaboration and are among the world-leading groups in their research fields. The non-academic partners have been carefully selected to cover the three main sectors exploiting flood risk research: consultancies (GECOsistema, FutureWater, adelphi), governmental bodies (RWS, LUGV, UBA, AdB-Po) and insurance industry (GC, DRAG, RMS).