SUP@VAMDC (2012 - 2014)

MGT: Project Management

Contact person : M.L Dubernet

Objectives :

The SUP@VAMDC support project involves 10 partners participants from 6 European Union member states (the OBSPARIS partner involves different partners and 2 third parties), 3 partners in ICPC countries: Brazil, India, South Africa, one partner in the Republic of Korea, external partners in the USA, in Australia and in Japan, and IAEA as an associate partner.
The Objective of Work Package 1 is therefore to provide the necessary management structure to implement the SUP@VAMDC project including: handling all administrative matters with respect to EU regulations: assembling and submitting reports, overseeing the audit of the finances and arranging meetings with appropriate staff in Brussels. WP1 will be responsible for establishing and implementing the higher level strategy of the infrastructure. In addition WP1 will provide the scientific coordination of SUP@VAMDC through the Executive Project Team (EPT).

WP Lead:

Description of work :

The Management structure will include a number of Boards, each with well defined remits and responsibilities. The designated Boards are:

SUP@VAMDC Executive Team (ET):

Comprising the Coordinator of the Network, three Deputy Coordinators and a Project Manager (to be funded by the e-infrastructure and based at the Coordinator’s institute). The ET will act as the ‘daily’ project management team with responsibility for monitoring the progress of the SUP@VAMDC e-infrastructure and ensure decisions taken at the Project Board are implemented. Such a small team is necessary to deliver clear and decisive management on short time scales. The ET will also act as the direct point of contact for the Commission. The ET will be delegated necessary powers by the Project board (PB) to act on issues that require immediate response but will be answerable for such actions to the PB. The three deputy coordinators are members of the Project Board.

SUP@VAMDC Project Board (PB):

This Board will be the major strategic decision-making body and will have the prime responsibility for ensuring the success of the project and compliance with the terms of the EU Contract. Membership will consist of one representative from each legal entity signing the contract (Contractual Legal Entity: CLE) , i.e. the nominated ‘Scientist in charge’ as defined by the contract, representatives of the departments within a CLE when they have quite distinct roles within the proposal. The external/associate members will be invited to the Project Board meetings with no voting rights over the budget and administrative issues. It has final control of the budget and the allocation of tasks and resources. It will meet once a year face-to-face and at other times as required by teleconference and will be chaired by the Coordinator.

SUP@VAMDC Executive Project Team (EPT):

The EPT includes WPs leaders (WP2 to WP5). The EPT will have bi-monthly teleconference meetings (more if necessary) as well as annual face-to-face meetings. It will collect reports from WPs and prepare the annual technical reports for the PB. The EPT will be co-chaired by the technical Deputy Coordinator and the deputy coordinator for sustainability who are members of the Project Board and will appropriately advise the PB on the technical validity and relevance of the project strategic plans.

The three main tasks of WP1 are (i) the initial establishment of the management structure and its supporting communication tools (ii) the operation of this structure including the organisation of the annual meetings and, at the termination of the project, (iii) the delivery of the final reports.
Before the start of the project, the project coordinator will provide a Fact sheet with an overview of the project and a 5 slides presentation, including logos.