Coord. & project office

The Coordinator will be responsible for the management of COMBINE and liaison with the European Commission on behalf of the consortium. He will also be the principle contact to the financial administration at the MPI-M. If and when necessary he can propose to convene full Scientific Steering and Executive Committee meetings. He reports to the chairman of the governing board.
The Coordinator, assisted in the day-to day work by the members of the project office, has the responsibility of overall co-ordination and management of the project, including:

• Communication of all information in connection with the COMBINE project to the Commission.
• Preparation of the project deliverables and address them to the Commission, after validation by the Scientific Steering and Executive Committee;
• Day to day co-ordination of the project; monitors project planning and progress, deadlines, bottlenecks, deliverables;
• Communication within the project, to users, and to the general public;
• Organisation of meetings and internal reviews;
• Organisation of calls for proposals issued by the project, if required;
• Preparation of the quality control and documentation plan;
• Co-ordination with other EU – funded or other international projects;
• Overall administrative and financial management,
• Management of consortium-level legal and ethical issues

Implementation of the plans under knowledge and innovation-related activities, intellectual property issues and Gender Action Plan will be under the responsibility of the coordinator.

The coordinator heads the COMBINE Project Office, which will be established at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. The project office will comprise the coordinator, the project officer (PO) and the administrative project manager (APM). The PO assists the Coordinator in the day to day monitoring of progress of the Project (follow-up of planning schedule, issue reminders for task initiation or completion, all other issues listed above), identifies promptly and anticipates problems, proposes action to remedy. The PO maintains the project communication instruments: web site with public and restricted areas, mailing lists and newsletter. The APM will assist the Coordinator in the preparation of the financial reporting and in the financial actions between the Commission and the project partners.