The partners of the HIPCON project are:

IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, co-ordinator
IVL is Sweden's leading organisation for environmental research. In HIPCON, IVL works primarily with project management, environmental modelling and process modelling.
London School of Economics and Political Science
The activities of London School of Economics and Political Science in HIPCON are in the fields of econometrics and statistics.
Computer Technology Institute (CTI)
CTI specialises in applied research related to computer science. In HIPCON, CTI works with decision support systems and is responsible for integration and implementation.
Uppsala University, Division of Systems and Control
The division does research in such areas as system identification, signal processing, fault detection and automatic control. UU is responsible for model based control.
IMCG Ltd
IMCG is an international management consulting company based in London. IMCG works with dissemination and commercialisation of the project results.
SSAB Oxelösund AB
SSAB is one of the medium-sized steel companies in Western Europe. The steel production facility in Oxelösund is one of the case studies in the project.
Stockholm Vatten AB
Stockholm Vatten produces drinking water and manages and treats wastewater from Stockholm and neighbouring municipalities. One of the company's wastewater treatment plants is a case study in HIPCON.

The development of the holistic process management system requires close co-operation among experts in a variety of fields, e.g. economic, environmental and process modelling, multi-objective optimisation and model based control theory. Integration of the research is of paramount importance.


The consortium consists of 5 partners with expertise in these areas and two case study industries. The roles of the partners are visualised in the figure.