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Project management

Interaction with European Commission services


In the context of the policy relevance of the research being carried out, the consortium will use or set an appropriate mechanism to ensure dialogue with Commission policy-makers and to guarantee regular and appropriate contacts with relevant Commission services. This may include inter alia meetings in Brussels, regular breifings and informal contacts between the consortium and relevant Commision services. Any such contacts should involve the Project Officer.

Project management through Coordinator/Steering Group


The coordinator and each of the four participants have well established research groups with technical and administrative backup. Each of the participants is a WP leader for one or more WPs, and has the responsibility to report every 3rd month to the coordinator about each WP, concerning the progress and whether the expected deliverables and milestones are met.


    


The members of the different laboratories will meet once a year for a 2-3 day session when each student or researcher will make a report on their project, and ample time will be allotted to discussing and criticising each report. Time will also be spent discussing how to further develop each separate project. This will serve to maximize the interaction on all levels from students and post-docs to senior researchers. This meeting will always take place in one of the participating laboratories to enable us to scrutinize the methodologies used in each laboratory, and compare them with those of the other laboratories for us to reach the most favourable utilization of techniques and methodologies with the consortium In addition to the steering group meetings The participant responsible for each work package will report directly to the coordinator every third month. The coordinator and the participants will meet once every year for a two days meeting to go over the different sub-projects and to plan the interaction. Every second year this will take place in connection with the meeting of the Federation of European Neuroscience.

Clearly the success of a project of this type depends on the distribution of information and the creation of an environment, which is conducive to collaboration between members of the different laboratories.