# About Study (or Partner) Organizations

Source: https://sites.veevavault.help/gr/sitevault/studies/about-partner-orgs/

[Select here for an interactive demo.](https://app.arcade.software/share/pDHbRynLTZYhYaHyljFE) 

- Study Organizations can also be referred to as Partner Organizations.
- Study Organizations are organizations that are associated with a study, for example, IRB/IECs, Labs, CROs, Sponsors, and Ancillary Committees.
- Study Organizations can be viewed in the following areas of SiteVault: 
  - **Study \> Organizations**
  - **Administration \> Organizations**

- Adding an Organization to a study enables the Organization’s profile documents to be automatically filed to the study.
- Study Organization States 
  - There are three possible states for a Study Organization: Proposed, Active, and Inactive.
  - Study Organizations are created in the Proposed state.
  - Study Organizations can toggle between Active and Inactive.
  - When a Study Organization is updated to the Active state, the Study Organization’s most recent steady-state version and any subsequent versions of profile documents (for example, Lab Normal Ranges and IRB/IEC Compositions) are added to the study.