The ERA-NET Bioenergy consortium consists of organisations that finance or manage national or regional research activities with respect to bioenergy. The project partners can roughly be divided into programme owners and programme managers. The financing of the programmes is located at ministerial level. Governmental agencies or similar public bodies with similar mandates manage the programmes. Most programme managers in the consortium are related to a 'mother' ministry, either directly (as in an agency) or indirectly (as in a public or private body that manages a bioenergy programme on behalf of the government).

The ERA-NET Bioenergy consortium combines the basic elements of RTD programmes for a successful bioenergy development of all participating countries. All consortium partners are key players in the stimulation of research activities in this field. Their involvement in the consortium enables the ERA-NET Bioenergy project to combine national policy makers and policy executing organisations of different European countries to learn from each other and research the possibilities of co-ordination and co-operation of RTD programmes. The involvement of all three elements (ministries, agencies, programmes) is essential for the project. If one of the basic elements (per country) is missing, it will have a major impact on possibilities to implement a joint programme. Without the involvement of the ministries, there would be no political commitment. In those cases where the Ministry of a country is not a partner in our project, the agency will keep close contact with the Ministry. Without the involvement of the agencies and the programmes, there would be no commitment with respect to content. 

Companies, research institutes and universities are not part in the consortium. Their involvement is, however, essential for the success of the co-ordination since they are the target groups of the RTD programmes involved.

The following countries are participating in the ERA-NET Bioenergy network: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Sweden, The Netherlands and United Kingdom.