Project management deals with the governance structure, the role and responsibilities of the various committees and actors and the contacts with the EC. It includes the overall management, communication and co-ordination of the different partners, as well as monitoring the technical progress of the entire project through the supervision of the achieved milestones and other non technical aspects.
The project management activities, leaded by the Applicant Organization P1 - FEPORTS -with the technical support of the Coordinating Organization, P2 - LPA-Livorno Port Authority, will cover all the decisional aspects of the project's life, as:

• following up and overseeing the different WPs activities through the WP leaders, assisting them if some difficulties arise;
• reviewing and validating periodic and supplementary reports (technical and financial) and the outcomes;
• overseeing the information flow and methods between co-ordinator and WP leaders;
• approving official communications with the EC;
• establishing calendar and agendas of the various meetings;
• overseeing dissemination and exploitation activities.

All partners other than P1 and P2 (which are more strongly involved in this WP8) are requested to assign some resources to this task in order to properly participating in the decision making phases (as Steering Committees) and for the delivering of the official requested documentation.
In this Workpackage, through its Leader, will also exploited a software tool for Project Management developed by Livorno Port Authority in the framework of a previous EQUAL project. That tool will be immediately available for the project's aims

WP8.TASK1 - Project Management
    WP8.T1.1.  Workpackages activities management
    WP8.T1.2.  State-of-the-art and financial reporting, official documentation requested by EAC-EA
    WP8.T1.3.  Meetings Organization and Steering Committees