For the collection of the data the institutions have been grouped according to two criteria. The first one is the country, where in some cases a small block of countries have been grouped together following the principle of regions in the EurAAP delegate Assembly. The second criteria is the scientific/application topic. Similar to the grouping of countries, some topical areas have been merged, resulting in the following six areas:

• Mobile Communication (Mobile);
• Satellite Communication (Satellite);
• Remote Sensing, radar, radio astronomy (RemRadRas);
• Navigation (Nav);
• Free Space Optics (FSO);
• Other topics (Other), including terrestrial and ionospheric propagation.

The data of all institutions belonging to the same research area and country is compiled into one list. In order to generate a first version of the data, an expert for each country/area has been approached in order to collect the data for this entry. This expert has asked the named persons from the institutions included in the files for permission to publish the data and has communicated this to the authors of the document.

A special acknowledgment goes to Johannes Baumgarten, who prepared the Excel sheet for the collection of the data as well as to Jarosław Sadowski and Krzysztof Cwalina for preparing the web page.

Below is the list of these experts, who are warmly thanked for their contribution to building the current map.

Sławomir J. Ambroziak	Bertram Arbesser-Rastburg
Shlomi Arnon	Janos Bito
Yannick Benniquel	Xavier Boulanger
Connor Brennan	Laurent Castanet
Philip Constantinou	Lászlo Csurgai-Horváth
Luis M. Correia	Vittorio Degli-Esposti
Gunnar Elgered	Luis Emiliani
Ondrej Fizer	Istvan Frigyes
Bernard Fleury	Matti Herben
Athansios Kanatas	Haneda Katsuyuki
Thomas Kürner	Vaclav Kvicera
Joel Lemorton	Erich Leitgeb
Christoph Mecklenbräuker	José M. Molina
Claude Oestges	Tudor Palade
Athansios D. Panagopoulos	Matthias Pätzold
Pavel Pechac	José M. Riera
Carlo Riva	Neil Rogers
Sana Salous	Alain Sibille
Irina Sirkova	Terje Tjelta
Danielle Vanhoenacker	Bota Vasile
Rodolphe Vauzelle	Radovan Zentner