Stig W. Omholt (Chairman, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway)
Willem van Eelen (Vitro Meat BV, Netherlands)
Bernard Roelen (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
Gunnar Kleppe (Statoil, Norway)
Jose Teixeira (University of Minho, Portugal)

Mandate for the interim steering committee:

• Establish a web-based project management tool for the consortium where every member has access and where the activities of the interim committee can be assessed
• Establish a website as soon as possible
• Identify the full range of academic and industrial competences that are needed for this undertaking, and acquire these competences under the umbrella of the consortium as soon as possible
• Develop funding strategies and associated action plans (FP7 Activity in 2009, philanthropic funding, national funding, and personal donations)
• Perform a feasibility analysis assessing how cheaply we will be able to produce a cell culture medium as well as an in vitro meat product under a few industrial scale scenarios
• Draft a document describing vision statement, organizational structure, consortium rules and patent pool arrangements