WORK PACKAGES
Management
Organization and management structure
The overall coordination and management of the proposed network will be undertaken by UEX. The coordinator will be supported by the Management of Research Transfer Results Office at UEX (SGTRI-UEX), a professional unit dedicated to the management and administration of EU-funded projects. In this proposal, SGTRI-UEX will support the HYPER-I-NET consortium in the management of the project (administrative, legal, financial and organizational aspects) in close cooperation with the coordinator. It will also contribute to the monitoring of the project work and dissemination of its results, and to the quality and knowledge management for the project.

The coordinator will be assisted (on a daily basis) by the assistant coordinators in charge of three subgroups within the network:
  1. The sensor design subgroup will be supervised by DLR
  2. The data processing subgroup will be supervised by UNIPV
  3. The applications subgroup will be supervised by WU
The assistant coordinators will help the coordinator by arranging meetings, monitoring work flow and ensuring exchange of information between the members of the network. The overall and assistant coordinators will respond to a management board that will assess the progress of the RTN.
The board will consist of one senior representative of each organization in the network, and will meet every 6 months. Besides taking strategic decisions such as those addressed above, the board will appoint a network advisory committee, a quality manager and an IPR manager.
  • The network advisory committee will make provisions related with the direction of the research activities and training elements in the network, as well as the overall training and research strategies.
  • the quality manager will be responsible for assessing, guaranteeing, maintaining and improving the quality of activities carried out throughout the RTN. To achieve the above goals, a network-quality assurance plan will be pursued.
  • The IPR manager will be responsible for making IPR-related provisions applicable to both contractors and researchers.
  • The management board will also nominate a training programme manager that will be in charge of coordinating (in close cooperation with the network coordinator and quality manager) the organizational aspects of training activities.
  • Every year, a representative of appointed researchers will be appointed to represent the interests of appointed scientists in management bodies.
Decision-making structures will be enforced at progress meetings, attended by members in the management board and advisory committee. Management (deliverable deadlines, audit certificates, payments, scheduling of work, exploitation of results, etc.) and coordination issues will be specifically addressed at the scheduled meetings, in which decisions will be made in the spirit of reaching unanimous consensus (if consensus is not achieved, decisions will be made by majority voting).


Management structure