1. an Assembly of member institutions,
2. a Science Board that includes eminent external members,
3. a Board of Directors.

THE ASSEMBLY is made up of the initial partners of PACE:

1. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
2. University Ca' Foscari, Italy
3. University of Copenhagen, Denmark
4. Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
5. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
6. University of Zurich, Switzerland
7. Vilnius University - Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Lithuania
8. ProtoLife s.r.l., Italy
9. University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
10. Dublin City University, Ireland
11. Reed College, USA
12. Corila, Italy
13. Weizmann Institute, Israel
14. University of Nottingham, UK


EXTERNAL PARTICIPANTS:


15. Comune di Venezia
16. Los Alamos National Laboratories, USA
17. Argonne National Laboratories, USA

THE SCIENCE BOARD is:

1. Mark Bedau (chair, ProtoLife, S.r.l.)
2. Doron Lancet (Weizmann Institute of Science Israel)
3. Kristian Lindgren (Chalmers University of Technology)
4. John McCaskill (University of Bochum)
5. Peter Nielsen (University of Copenhagen)
6. Norman Packard (ProtoLife S.r.l.)
7. Irene Poli (University Ca' Foscari of Venice)
8. Steen Rasmussen (Los Alamos Natl. Lab., USA)
9. Peter Schuster (University of Vienna)
10. Roberto Serra (Univerity of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
11. Günter von Kiedrowski (University of Bochum)

THE BOARD of DIRECTORS is composed of three Directors:

1. Kristian Lindgren
2. Norman Packard
3. Irene Poli