WP1: Management and Coordination of the project

The task of WP1 is to guarantee the overall success of the project through efficient and effective coordination and management (legal, financial and administrative), and to ensure the achievement of all the agreed objectives. The Governing Board and the Coordinator will be responsible for taking strategic decisions within the QIPC field and for controling and updating the CA work plan.

The management team of the project with the Coordinator and the Executive Secretary with his team will assure that the project impact is optimized by addressing in a transparent, appropriate and equilibrated way all sub-fields and geographical areas. It will ensure coordination with other projects of the QIPC FET cluster and coordination of the work of the entire QIPC community towards implementation of the common vision and strategy developed by this CA.

WP1 will cover the administration and distribution of funding to other WP leaders to support the achievement of its goals. Furthermore this WP will be responsible for the risk management and dealing with unforeseen problems (e.g., missed deliverables or milestones, EC needs of specific and not initially planned documents, etc.), and for annual updates of the workplan and its modification according to the community input.