The project is conducted by a consortium of several European and Russian centres, coordinated by the Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health (HMGU). Key elements of the project management are the Project Management Group (PMG), the General Assembly, the Project Coordinator, Dr. Peter Jacob, the Project Office, the Scientific Secretary, the Scientific Advisory Board, the subproject managers, and the workpackage leaders. A dedicated Project Office located at GSF supports the Project Coordinator in all of his tasks, especially in implementing decisions of the Project Management Group. The Scientific Advisory Board  advises the Project Management Group in all important scientific and technical decisions. The project management structure has been designed to deal with international collaborative project management issues with specific attention to potential problems associated with the relative large number of non-EU scientific partners (Russian Federation). In order to have an effective scientific management, the project SOUL is subdivided into five subprojects:

• SP1: External Dosimetry Mayak

• SP2: Internal Dosimetry and health effects Mayak

• SP3: Dosimetry Techa River

• SP4: Health effects Techa River

• SP5: Management

 The subprojects consist in total of 20 workpackages involving various partners. This structure was selected to favour a high degree of interaction between the participants.

The Project Management Group (PMG) is the core of the strategic management. It consists of: Project Co-ordinator, Dr.Peter Jacob (HMGU), the SP managers, Per Hall and Colin Muirhead. Three leading institutes of RF (SUBI, URCRM, ZAO) and three leading institutes of the EU (GSF, HPA, and KI) have a vote each. For Administrative management the Project Officer Dr. Natalia Semioshkina (GSF) and Scientific Secretary Albrecht Wieser (GSF) are responsible.