Each partner institution appoints one representative key scientist to the SC. The SC is authorised to take decisions on behalf of the consortium and is responsible for the overall performance of KAPPA-FLU under the Horizon Europe Grant Agreement and the Consortium Agreement. Decisions in the remit of the SC include changes to the consortium, changes in the overall objectives or approaches of KAPPA-FLU, significant changes in partner budgets, conflicts between partners or changes in the composition of management and advisory bodies. The SC will be chaired by the Coordinator and the Co-coordinator. The Coordinator will consolidate the progress reports, milestone reports, financial statements and budgetary overviews with input from all partners. He will be the official liaison point between the EC Project Officer and the consortium and is formally responsible for financial, legal, ethical, and contractual issues. To ensure that the coordination effort does not interfere with the scientific progress of the project, the Coordinator will be supported by a Project Manager at P01 (FLI), who will provide the necessary operational and administrative support.

The EB consists of all WP leaders and co-leaders and will be chaired by the Coordinator and Co-coordinator. It is the central scientific coordinating body of the consortium and will also ensure adequate dissemination and exploitation of the project results. The EB is responsible for monitoring the scientific progress and reporting, including the status of deliverables and milestones, possible risks and their mitigation. The EB ensures that activities across the WPs are synergistic, if necessary, by the prioritisation of activities and the reallocation of resources. The EB reports to the SC and the EB members are responsible for the implementation of SC and EB decisions in their WPs. As WP leaders, they guide the progress of work in the WPs and collect all necessary information for the scientific reporting. They stay in close contact with all partners involved in their WP, follow the project progress and report to the Coordinator and Co-coordinator.

The external Scientific Advisory Board will provide the consortium with independent advice on the scientific performance and quality of the results obtained. The SAB gets access to the internal and external progress reporting documents. For the composition of the external Scientific Advisory Board KAPPA-FLU invited experts in ornithology, influenza virus biology and molecular biology, epidemiology and agro-economics.