MATISSE works on four main project activities:

(if you click on the hyperlinks you will get more information on the respective workpackages)

1. A common conceptual framework for ISA development, implementation and evaluation will be developed. This will be related to the assessment of the current status of ISA (Work Package 1) and its pattern of use (Work Package 2) in relation to different domains and contexts.

2. MATISSE will deliver a future tool portfolio for ISA (Work Package 9). It will improve and interlink existing tools (Work Package 8) and methods for ISA (building on the results of SustainabilityA-TEST) with the focus on quantitative tools.

3. In four case studies the improved and new ISA tools will be applied and tested. The case studies are designed to cover the broad spectrum of domains and contexts of ISA in the EU. The themes are (Work Packages 4-7):

   i) agriculture, forestry and land-use,
   ii) resource use, waste and dematerialisation
   iii) water (using the example of Ebro delta, Spain)
   iv) sustainable environmental technology development.
   

4. The involvement and engagement of stakeholders and policy makers will be secured throughout all activities of the project. This will be implemented inter alia via capacity-building, communications and outreach tasks (Work Package 10).

A series of Briefing Sheets informs every six months on the progress within the workpackages.