NETWORKING ACTIVITY 1:
“MANAGEMENT OF THE CONSORTIUM ACTIVITIES”

Responsible person: Mariano Tarantino, ENEA - mariano.tarantino@enea.it

The management of VELLA entails mainly the co-ordination of all the technical activities of the I3, the legal, contractual, financial and administrative management, the maintenance of the contacts with the Commission, the steering and monitoring of the time schedule, the budget, the deliverables and the milestones, the preparation of meetings and the implementation of dissemination measures, the co-ordination of the knowledge management, the realization of the required documentation, the dissemination and publishing of the results.

In this framework, in order to perform the abovementioned activities, a management structure articulated as following has been set up:

• The Executive Board (EB) is the Consortium decision-making and arbitration body.
• The Technical Advisor Committee (TAC) is the body responsible for scientific advices and recommendations covering the topics of the Project.
• The Scientific Access Panel (SAP) is the body responsible for the selection of the accesses to the infrastructures during the whole duration of the Project, the selection of the Human Mobility (HM) applications, the monitoring of the accepted actions.
• The Scientific and Technical Panel (STP) is the body managing the Joint Research Activities within the project execution.
• The Co-ordinator is the single point of contact between the EC and the Consortium and it is responsible for the project management.
• The Project Office (PO) is the body which manage the administrative, legal, financial and other non-technical aspects of the Project and assist the abovementioned bodies and the Coordinator in their activities.