COGAIN Kick-Off5.-6.9.2004 Tampere, Finland

WP 9: Management

Stina Boedekerhttp://www.cs.uta.fi/hci/

Objective

Overall day-to-day project management, including monitoring activities, progress reporting, financial management and coordination of project meetings and deliverables.

Refinement of plans for the later phases

Tasks 1/2

T9.1 Set-up of the Steering Group and Network Coordination Office

T9.2 Invitations to join the Board of Industrial Advisors and the Board of User Communities

T9.3 Day-to-day management T9.4 Support for integration activities

Cogain camps, research retreats, mobility grants

Tasks 2/2

T9.5 Preparing and organising Steering Group meetings and kick-off meeting

T9.6 Setting up procedures for quality assurance of documents and monitoring their implementation COGAIN document templates Pre-publication peer review procedures

Deliverables

D9.1 Project presentation (M6 – February 2005) D9.2 Progress report (M6 – February 2005) D9.3 Progress report (M12 – May 2005) D9.4 Progress report (M18 – February 2006)

Milestones

M9.1 Kick-off meeting (M2 – by October 2005) M9.2 COGAIN camp, including expert review (M12 – by

August 2005)

Measurable Indicators

Indicator Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5

Number of participants 90 60 70 80 100in yearly camps or othergeneral meetingsNumber of researchers 5 8 9 10 10and student visitssupported by the mobility programme Number of partners inv.in management activities 10 12 14 16 18 Number of individuals(BIA, BUC,…) inv. In Mgmt activities 6 10 12 15 15

Current Status

Kick-off meeting organized in Tampere. Assembly’s preparatory meeting held on the 5th of Sept.

official meeting by email Assembly appoints Steering Group members Assembly sets up Network Coordination Office Assembly appoints Board of Ind. Advisors and Board of User

Communities

Estimated Involvement (first 18 months)

Partner MonthsUTA 8ITU 0,5DTU 3UNI KO-LD 0,3POLITO 0,5UZL 1SU 3ACE 0,8UOD 0,5DMU 2

To Do

Organize An official Assembly meeting

Representatives from the partners appointed in writing. Steering Group meetings research retreats (support) COGAIN camp in June perhaps.

Collect information for the best way to use the mobility grants Deliverables and progress reports in time.

Make COGAIN templates available. Monitor the indicators

Discussion

Comments, ideas?

Contact person Stina Boedeker, stina.boedeker@cogain.org

Email address: wp9@cogain.org