WP5: Project Management and Coordination
Objectives:
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Supervise and co-ordinate the project work in each workpackage; periodic
reporting to the Commission is done on a 4-month basis, covering management
and progress of the activities.
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Ensure a common understanding of the project objectives by all partners
and establish a common working environment with special emphasis on information
exchange within the consortium.
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Establish a project quality plan to be followed by all project partners,
that states the roles, the responsibilities of everyone, the standards
and the procedures to be applied in the project.
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Prepare a consortium agreement that must be approved and signed by all
partners in the consortium on acceptance of the INTERVAL proposal.
Description of work:
This workpackage is focusing on administrative and technical management
support. The following work items are addressed:
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Technical co-ordination of workpackages and task execution.
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Periodic update of the project-level documents e.g. workplan, internal
procedures, and assignments.
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Supervising the preparation of the deliverables: reports, reviews and summaries.
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Establishing a fruitful and effective communication between the project
partners.
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Identification and resolution of potential conflicts.
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Interaction with the European Commission: produce and send the periodic
reports, organise and animate the project reviews, participate to European
concertation meetings.
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Support the dissemination activities by linking to the standardisation
bodies for achieving up-to-date information and fostering dissemination
actions such as technical publications.
Call and chair project management boards meetings.