The profiles of the stakeholders interviewed in the INSIGHT project included skills, competences and knowledge necessary to frame the emerging profile of an IS facilitator. INSIGHT stakeholders’ composition reflects the plurality of inputs in starting the IS, with a predominance of National/regional Authorities’ initiatives and Companies’ waste issues.
Coming from 15 European countries, they represent a multiple target structured in: Public Authorities (17%), Private companies (15%), Consultants (23%), Researchers (15%), and those who already act as IS Facilitators (15%). The IS resource matching platforms have been included in the “Business Association” cluster, due to the fact of the BA involvement in promoting these tools among enterprises.
Some similarities between Consultants and Facilitators have been found, but compared to a focused expertise of consultants, facilitators show a more “generalist” expertise.
Besides the 5 countries of the INSIGHT’s partners, stakeholders come from further 7 European countries (Croatia, Netherlands, Bulgaria, France, Luxemburg, Ireland, Sweden), 2 non-European countries (Turkey and Switzerland) and the United Kingdom. The variety of countries of INSIGHT stakeholders’ targets remember us how widespread the IS community is.