The project management consists of the co-ordination of the resources and mechanisms to ensure the accurate and efficient progress of the project from a technical, administrative and financial point of view, and the proper achievement of the milestones and results. The following management structure has been designed to carry out the organisation tasks of the SPAS Project.

Actors and mechanisms of the project management structure

BESEL will be responsible for SPAS Co-ordination, that is for the day-to-day management and co-ordination of the project (organizational and financial administration, planning and control of the overall work and of the achievement of objectives and milestones); with the aim of assuring the correct progress of the project in terms of costs, timing, quality and milestones. Audit certificates (Each partner is responsible of his own audit certificate).

BESEL will play the role of Technical Coordinator as well. The technical coordinator will be in charge of assurance of consistency of technical work and technical content of deliverables as well.

BESEL will be assisted by the Sites Coordinators. They will be nominated at the kick-off meeting and will guarantee a coherent implementation of the demonstrators in relation with the overall project.

A Project Co-ordination Committee (PCC) will be formed at the kick-off meeting with a representative of the Coordinator plus one representative of each partner, to determine and maintain the strategic guidelines of the project and to solve conflicts that may emerge during the project. The PCC will support the Project Coordinator on high-level management decisions. This Committee will meet at least twice a year and in the event of special issues.

The daily work for the execution of all WPs, except WP1 (Project Management), will be carried out by the WP participants. They are responsible for the development of their assigned tasks and for reporting to the WP leader about any difficulties that may arise. They will be coordinated by the WP leaders, who will be responsible for the progress of the work in their respective work package: planning, control and reporting of tasks and activities. They will ensure deadlines are respected and will report in a regular basis to the project coordinator.

In order to achieve an accurate Co-ordination of all these actors implied in the project, the project management will make use of several mechanisms that will assure:

• Proper communication between partners: Communication Strategy and Information flow fair and democratic decisions: Decision Making Process.
• Minimum deviation from milestones, results, cost quality and project timing: Project Assessment Methodology.
• High quality of results: Quality Assurance Strategy.

BESEL, S.A. was founded in Spain in 1984 as a Consulting and Engineering enterprise primarily concerned with the Technology, Energy and Environment fields. From its inception, the enterprise has evolved, specialising and adjusting to the changing business needs. The need of constant renovation in order to be competitive and offer personalized services to enterprises is the propelling force of BESEL, S.A. development. 90 of 111 SPAS / 023339 June,22th 2005 BESEL, S.A. has a team (about 70 person) of highly qualified professionals, mainly engineers (chemists, physicists and economists too) with extensive experience in the various areas of entrepreneurial activity. Also, there is an ample network of outside expert collaborators, both Spanish as foreign. BESEL has participated in 30 already finished European projects and is involved in five ongoing ones. The main activities to be carried out by BESEL within the project are the following:

• Kick off phase.
• Technological Implementation Plan.
• Exploitation Plan.
• Channel the information to all the partners.
• Responsible of workshop and audit analysis.
• Responsible of WP 5 direct action.
• Management activities
  • Administrative management
  • Technical rules
  • Financial rules (financial plan)