Title: Project management

Start month: 1 End month: 24

Initial state of work, preconditions for starting, & objectives:

Project Management will be organized by DEI for technical and administration aspects and by WEKA for the commercial aspects.

Giuseppe Rufo, as person in charge of DEI will coordinate the project backed by his company structure.

Moreover, the Project Managers will have recourse to external consultants, to experts in relations with the European Community and to all the partners in consortium for their cooperation where required with a view to ensuring that the project will evolve properly and that quality assurance be always a high ranking priority.

To facilitate communication within the Consortium, DEI will be spokesman for Italy, and WEKA will be spokesman for Austria and Germany.

The Project Managers will thus be responsible for:

-Definition and checking of the project objectives

- Planning and scheduling of the project activities

- Evaluation of the requisite resources

- Project budgeting

- Allocation of resources to each activity

- Definition of the state of progress of the project

- Supervising the state of progress of the project during its execution

- Effecting of rectifications in case of deviations from plans

- Resolution of any possible critical situation which may occur during the life of the project

- Interface between the Commission and the consortium for technical and administrative

tasks.

Responsible for WP: DEI

Tasks:

1.1 Organisation and coordination of general meetings among the project managers of each participating organisation every 3 months, in order to check the state of progress of the project and to disseminate information.

1.2 Monthly reporting from the persons in charge within each partner company.

1.3 Weekly project monitoring by the persons in charge within their own companies.

1.4 Communication management by mail and fax.

Deliverables:

1. Management Reports at months 3, 9, 15, 21

2. Progress Reports with financial expenditure at months 6, 12, 18

3. Final detailed Report for the EU at month 24

4. Abridged version of the Final EU Report at month 24

5. Project financial accounting with at months 26

6. Technical audits by the EU at months 7 -13