The project is organised in five WPs:

- WP1: Re-sequencing of 101 unrelated Norway spruce trees (prof. Pär Ingvarsson, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Sweden)

- WP2: Adaptation under climate change (prof. Martin Lascoux, Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Uppsala, Sweden)

- WP3: Resistance to Heterobasidion ssp disease (prof. Jan Stenlid and Associate prof. Malin Elfstrand, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden)

- WP4: Improving economical traits including growth, wood quality, and new bio-energy and chemical traits (Associate prof. M Rosario García Gil, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Center, SLU, Umeå, Sweden)

- WP5: Genomic selection (prof Harry X Wu, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Center, SLU, Umeå, Sweden)