Grant agreement nr. ECHO/SUB/2012/638445 Project Management Structure KNOWLEDGE PLATFORM FOR ASSESSING THE COSTS AND BENEFITS SIGMA Consultants EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG-ECHO CIVIL PROTECTION UNIT
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CHAPTER 1 OVERVIEW The management units that will be used to coordinate the actions of the partners are as follows: Lead Partner Coordination Office Steering Committee Working Group - Regional Management Task Coordinators Lead Partner Coordination Office Steering Committee Working Group The FLOOD CBA Coordinating Beneficiary, SIGMA Consultants Ltd, will be responsible to the EU for the execution of the project according to the Grant Agreement. The Lead Partner will pass the coordination task to the FLOOD CBA Coordination Office. The Coordination Office will be in charge of the day to day management and coordination of the project. Members of the Coordination Office will be the Project Coordinator and his deputy as well as the Financial Manager (all coming from SIGMA Consultants). Chaired by the Lead Partner, the Steering Committee will be the central unit for the strategic partnership. Each Associated Beneficiary will delegate one representative to the Steering Committee. The tasks of the Steering Committee will be monitoring and guiding the implementation of the project, resolving raised conflicts, as well as reviewing and approving work plans and deliverables. The annual reports of the CO to the EACA will be used to fulfill these tasks. Intermediate reporting will be ordered in cases of formal modifications to the project plan. A Quality Auditor (QA) will be appointed by the CO. The Working Group, which will be chaired by the Project Coordinator, is going to be the central unit for the technical coordination of all the tasks. Each partner will delegate one technical representative to the Working Group. All partners will be responsible for the technical, financial and administrative coordination of the project in their countries. The Working Group Members will be acting as Regional Managers and thus will have the responsibility of coordinating the relevant activities. The Working Group will meet 7 times during the project lifetime, Thessaloniki February 2013, Oxford May 2013, Bucharest September 2013 2
Lisbon January 2014 Kassel May 2014 Seville September 2014 Thessaloniki 2014 Task Coordinators According to the Grant Agreement and Partnership Agreements, the five Tasks of the project will be coordinated by different project partners. Task A Coordinating Beneficiary Task B AB5 (with AB3 as deputy coordinator) Task C AB1 (with CO as deputy coordinator) Task D AB4 Task E AB2 (with CO as deputy coordinator) The Task Coordinators will ensure the transfer of the project results from the technical level of the Working Group to the Steering Committee level. Working Teams The partners Working Teams will be responsible for the technical, financial and administrative coordination of the project at national level and will be accountable to the FLOOD CBA regional management. In addition, each Working Group will have to set up a stakeholders partnership at regional or national level with ministries, administrations, associations, institutions, and other organizations, interested in or dealing with the issues of planning and decision making on flood prevention measures. 3
CHAPTER 2 Lead Partner FLOOD CBA PROJECT MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE Coordinating Beneficiary: SIGMA Consultants Ltd Email: info@ sigmaconsultants.gr Tel: 00302310242801 Coordination Office Project Coordinator: Mrs. Vasiliki Papadopoulou Email: V.Papadopoulou@sigmaconsultants.gr Tel: 00302310242801 Deputy Project Coordinator: Dr. Lefteris Karagiannidis Email: L.Karagiannidis@sigmaconsultants.gr Tel: 00302310242801 Financial Manager: Mrs Metaxenia Delaki Email: M.Delaki@sigmaconsultants.gr Tel: 00302310531464 Quality Manager and Auditor To be appointed by the Lead Partner Steering Committee Mr. Triantafyllos Parthenopoulos, SIGMA CONSULTANTS Ltd. Mr. Edmund Penning-Rowsell, Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University Dr.Ing. Daniela Radulescu National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management Pr. Doutor Joao Saagua Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas, University Nova de Lisboa Dr. Robert Kuhn University of Kassel Dr. Fatima Navas University Pablo de Olavide (UPO) 4
Working Group Mrs. Vasiliki Papadopoulou, SIGMA Consultants Ltd Mr. Edmund Penning-Rowsell and Mr Dennis Parker (Deputy), Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University Mrs Mary-Jeanne Adler National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management Dr. Carlos Pereira da Silva Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas, University Nova de Lisboa Prof. Stefan Theobald and Dr. Claus Traebing University of Kassel Dr. Fatima Navas University University Pablo de Olavide (UPO) National Working Teams CO SIGMA Consultants Vasiliki Papadopoulou Lefteris Karagiannidis Athanasios Manoloudis Metaxenia Delaki Konstantinos Parthenopoulos AB1-Middlesex University Edmund Penning-Rowsell Josie Joyce (Administration) Marion Lock (Finance) Lucy Caple AB2- National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management Teodor Sorin Adler Mary Jeanne Galie Andreea Frimescu Lavinia Lazarine Tereza Jelev Ioan Pintilie Vasilie AB3- Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas, University Nova de Lisboa José António Tenedório Maria José Roxo Carlos Pereira da Silva New researcher To be defined 5
AB4-University of Kassel Stefan Theobald Claus Traebing PhD students - To be defined AB5-University Pablo de Olavide (UPO) Dr. Fatima Navas Dr. Gonzalo Malvárez Ms.Rocio Carrero Mrs. Marta Mercado 6