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Implementation - 3.1 Deliverables Instructions Deliverables are the outcomes a project puts out for the Commission to review and evaluate. They are the smaller concrete results of the work done. Deliverables can be: Document, report (...
Implementation - 3.1 Work Package Instructions If the Project is a house, then Work Packages are the rooms of a house and Tasks are the furniture and the people in those rooms. Work Packages refer to larger individual pieces from whic...
Implementation - 3.1 Work Plan Instructions This section is the most structured in the template. You should use the tables, of ones with similar data structured very similarly, as given in the official template. The chapter starts ...
Implementation - 3.2 Milestones Instructions Tabulate to Table 3.2a the go/no-go decision points into a Milestones table. These points can also be guidance points, such as materials ready to be delivered between Work Packages, etc. ...
Implementation - 3.2 Management Structure and Processes Instructions This chapter asks you to describe the organisational structure and the decision-making of the project. The more partners you have, the more important it is that decisions made are fair to...
Implementation - 3.3 Consortium as a whole Instructions The individual partners are described in Chapter 4, so there is no need to repeat that information here. Instead you should focus on describing how the consortium is best equipped to addr...
Implementation - 3.4 Resources to be committed Instructions This chapter consists of two tables. The first is the listing of effort per partner divided between different work packages. Make sure that the partner efforts are appropriately balanced ...