D8.1 - Project Management Plan

This deliverable serves as the core management handbook and describes the structure that will provide guidelines for the project manager and the project members to follow during the full cycle of the project. The handbook will set out the governance structure (e.g. responsibilities of partners, lead roles, etc.) as well as the mechanisms and tools (e.g. mailing lists, gantt chart, WBS, reporting etc.) used for the management and administrative coordination of the project. In doing so, it will defined the communication processes within the consortium as well as to the EC and outline the consortium's formal communication of the project's activities and outcomes. It will also be detailed the decision making process, the acceptance criteria of deliverables among the consortium members, project risk management and other day to day specificities that may influence projects implementation and quality. It is foreseen in each periodic meeting, to take place before the two interim report periods, a revision and update of this deliverable. Furthemore may one of the parties feel the need for further revisions may take place.The PO will be notified one month before the updates to reopen the deliverable