The Summer School was organized by the following organizations:

• European Graduate School on Sustainable Energy  consisting of DTU Denmark, TU Munich and the Eindhoven University of Technology, which organized this Summer School as one in its regular series of half-yearly meetings;
• European Federation of Catalysis Societies (EFCATS);
• Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE - Biomass Conversion), consisting of the US Universities of Wisconsin, Iowa State, New Mexico and Virginia, and European Universities of Utrecht, Twente, TU/e, DTU, Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, and Abo Akademi, Turku;
• Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV-Section Catalysis);
• Netherlands Institute for Catalysis Research (NIOK);
• DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Catalysis (C*Change), Cape Town, South Africa