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Consortium Plan ?

18th October 2007

Are we sure that that the Consortium Plan, as an update version of the Description of Work (Annex I) established by the Consortium, will be accepted by the E..C. for the project reviews, instead of the last version of the Annex I itself ?

If so, is there a process for the validation of any Consortium Plan amendment?

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18th October 2007

Llevo más de media hora intentando ver como se usa (se introducen los datos) en el DESCA y no lo consigo. Hasta ahora la sensación de friendly que tengo es muy escasa

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Quorum

18th October 2007

 A Coordinator is worried to find himself in meetings of the General Assembly not reaching the 2/3 quorum of members (DESCA 6.2.3) and thus unable to deliberate validly, with all present parties incurring travel costs for nothing.
What about a member that is neither present nor represented at the meeting becomes irrelevant for the quorum?

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Why invent yet another name for the Project Management Team (in the DESCA template it is called Management Support Team)?

18th October 2007

The generally agreed standards for project management (and certfication of project leaders) - PMP in the US and IPMA internationally - use the well-known Project Management Body-of-Knowledge (PMbok). Please refer to PMbok for more information. A Google search will also quickly show you the relative popularity of the terminologies, with Project Management Team an overwhelming winner.

Suggestion: change - quickly - the DESCA template to use Project Management Team instead of the confusing Management Support Team terminology.

P.S.
This feedback system is rather difficult to use. A simple form that emails the feedback to an email address would be better.
D.S.

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Only for Collaborative Projects?

18th October 2007

The versions published are all marked by CA for Collaborative Projects. Does it mean that a separate version for Capacities projects, more specifically, for the Research for SMEs (former CRAFT) will appear?

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Rules in the financial provisions

18th October 2007

Do anybody know for which purpose the rules in the financial provisions 7.2.1 and 7.2.2 are included in the CA. I don™t see any advantage for any party to include these rules and so I would like to let it out. What do you think about it?
Thanks for your remarks.
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17th October 2007

This is a test post to force the categories to appear in the left-hand menu.

Posted in Finance, General Issues and Liability, Governance, IPR, Uncategorized | No Comments »