The proposed CRC will have an organisation that allows effective and transparent management for both scientific programmes and administrative/financial issues. The administrative core of Cluster Z will be a coordinator with a multilingual secretary and a pool of non-academic staff (e.g. web-master and student assistants). This administrative unit will work closely with the speaker and his/her deputy.

As data storage and exchange is a key issue in interdisciplinary research projects, data management and presentation will be part of the centralised assignments. Besides geographical and attribute data, the database will include metadata, literature, file management, project staff and publications, as well as picture and video data.