1 / 24

Σ! 3187

Σ! 3187. CELTIC Projects Kick Off Information A EUREKA Cluster Dedicated to Communication Techniques, Systems and Services. The Main Objectives. Increase R&D effort to a high level to stay ahead in a worldwide competition

marshall-walter
Download Presentation

Σ! 3187

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Σ! 3187 CELTIC Projects Kick Off Information A EUREKA Cluster Dedicated to Communication Techniques, Systems and Services

  2. The Main Objectives • Increase R&D effort to a high level to stay ahead in a worldwide competition • Maintain and develop the strengths of the European telecommunications industry both from the manufacturer and the operator side • Complement existing national and European R&D programmes, FP6/IST and Eureka • Use existing instruments to set up projects as quickly as possible

  3. Operation Principles • CELTIC is an Endorsed Organisation in EUREKA • Support for projects and Public Authorities (PA’s) • Regular reports to Core Group and PA’s • Control of coherence to programme and project description • CELTIC assists projects in • Definition Project Cooperation Agreement • Handling of Kick-off meetings • Dissemination of results (publications, conferences, etc) • Provision of a CELTIC Handbook • Small Management burden: administration as low as possible • Fees to cover operational costs for organising CELTIC: • Project partners pay annual fee of 1500 € per (yearly) person-year • Universities are exempted and partners from new EU countries pay 500€. • Invoice is sent twice a year. • Modifications should be indicated via Project Change Requests

  4. CELTIC – Organisational Structure Chair V- Chair Chair CELTIC Core Group CELTIC Support Group Ad-hoc Committees Director CELTIC Office Public Authorities

  5. Role of CELTIC CoreGroup (1/2) • Programme strategy and Coherence • Presentation of the Programme to the PA’s • Interface and influence with the PA’s for all issues related to the CELTIC Programme • Decision on tasks and guidelines for the CELTIC Support Group (e.g. for Project selection and Partner search) • Definition and updating of guidelines for the structure and organisation of the Programme; the admission and control of rules for Programme and Project management • Selection of Projects, assisted by the CELTIC Support Group’s recommendations • Execution and overall management of the Programme

  6. Role of CELTIC CoreGroup (2/2) • Approval of the budget for the CELTIC Organisation • Financial Audit of the CELTIC Organisation • Decision on projects in individual cases, • such as potential conflict of interest between Partners or participation in a project of a non-European company. Such companies may be allowed to participate as CELTIC Participants with the same rights and duties as other European CELTIC Participants (except for participation in the Executive bodies of the programme, see Art. III), if they have demonstrated: • the existence of substantial R&D activities in Europe • the existence of decision power in Europe for the further implementation of research results into commercial products • the added-value of their contribution to the project consortium the approval of the budget for the CELTIC Organisation • the financial audit of the CELTIC Organisation

  7. CELTIC Core Group It is the first R&D programme with a strong participation from major European telecommunications manufacturers and operators Manufacturers Operators Research Institute

  8. CELTIC Office Structure • Overall responsibility for Office • Interface toward Core Group • Support for PAs Director Heinz Brüggemann Programme Co-ordinator • Coordination of projects • Monitoring of progress • Support for projects -------- Assistant -------- Web Administration Projects Peter Herrmann • Accounting • Administration support • Proposal registration • Website management • Public Relations (Milon Gupta) Heike van Beek LuitgardHauer Ellen Tallas

  9. Role of the CELTIC Office 1/2 • General administration of the Programme • Admission and control of the rules for participation to the Programme • Interface for all Partners in the Programme, organisation of a Programme database • Monitoring of Projects, assisted by the Support Group, under CELTIC Core Group responsibility • Organisation of reporting and reviewing activities at Project and Programme levels (Technical Reports, handling of Change Requests, Project Reviews, Programme Review,…)

  10. Role of the CELTIC Office 2/2 • Information and Communication to the Partners • Communication to the outside and Interface with the PA’s on general funding issues, following instructions of the CELTIC Core Group • Support and assistance to all other executive bodies in the organisation • Accounting and billing of Participation feesin accordance with Article VII hereof • Payment of Office costs, Office personnel according to the budget plan

  11. CELTIC Project Set-Up

  12. Kick Off Requirements for Kick Off • Sufficient Progress of the negotiations with the PA’s. • All Partner have sent the confirmation Letter • Update the FPP which is transformed into the PD “Project Description”. • Madeira: PD needed; Status of PCA and DoA ? • Project Cooperation Agreement and Declaration of acceptance is agreed (and signed) in the consortium. • Feed back: what services would you like to have. • Minutes of Kick Off meeting to the CELTIC Office

  13. Project Information and Publication Project Web Pages and leaflet • General project information shall be published on the CELTIC Project Web site using a common template. • Project management is responsible that this Website is up-to-date. • The Project Intranet allows online reporting in the project database. • Access to the project database through Login to the Project Domain. • The project is free to create a project-owned Web site. CELTIC offers, to host the Project Web site (see Handbook chapter 9.4). • Each project shall produce a two to four page leaflet, informing about the project. They are intended for a broader dissemination. • Before publication the CELTIC Office has to approve the leaflet. It may also suggest or request some modifications.

  14. CELTIC Project Web Pages

  15. Project Management Structure

  16. Assessment and Reporting

  17. Monitoring and Assessment (1/2) • Quarterly Project Report (Quarterly Online Submission) • Each project participant (company) is requested to produce a quarterly work summary report. • The project coordinator compiles from all received work summaries (WS) of each participant a consolidated quarterly report. • The QR should summarise the effort spent by each participant for the different work packages. • The QR should indicate all deliverables or other achievement during the reported quarter. • Very important are statements about variations from plan.

  18. Monitoring and Assessment (2/2) • Annual Project Report • The annual report is a consolidated report based on the quarterly reports and the current overall situation. • The annual report is prepared by the coordinator, approved by the project consortium. • It is submitted to the CELTIC Office within 1 month after the end of the year. • Midterm Assessment • A mid-term review can always be carried out but will, more regularly, be considered for projects running more than 2 years. • A decision on a mid-term review can be taken, if a project appears to be behind its planned progress or with the quality of some of its contributions. • Check: If problems occur and if the project goes still in the right direction. • There might be a go/no go decision to continue the project.

  19. Changes from Project Plan • Project plan is defined in Project Description (FPP in the preparation phase) • In case of significant changes from plan: A Project Change Request must be issued, this is the case: • If new budgets and work allocations are decided • If a partner steps out or comes in • If significant modifications of the objectives, timing, and planned results occur • Major changes must be approved by CELTIC. • If fees are affected a calculation will be done for the following invoice but will not modify the invoice from previous period.

  20. Closure of Projects • The conclusion of the technical work is reached including the final Deliverables • A Final Report will be produced • A final project accounting will be established • Publications and other dissemination activities will be carried out • Recommendations for further activities will be defined

  21. Website:www.celtic-initiative.org Webside for each Project: • Public part • Confidential part (extended Website) • project management (to be implemented)

  22. Results Call 1 Call 1 submission phase ended on 28 November 2003 • 43 proposals received • Nearly all FPP’s were based on earlier Project Ideas • 31 reviewers in 5 expert groups carried out 129 reviews • 30 proposals were granted a CELTIC label • Resulting total budget of labelled proposals is 207 M€ • 76.5 M€ in 2004 • Starting Phase ongoing with first Project Kick-Off’s • 7 Projects started before June 30 2004. • 5 Projects started in July 2004 • 9 Projects starting before end October (According to PCR’s) • 3 Projects starting in January 2005 (According to PCR’s) • 6 Projects Cancelled

  23. Call 1 statistics: Types of Participants

  24. Call 1 statistics: Distribution across objectives

More Related