The Secretariat will support all partners with regard to reporting tasks to the EC, and will be responsible for the preparation, organisation, reporting and follow up of all the NSC and project management meetings of the consortium. In addition, the Secretariat will be responsible for the knowledge management within the Consortium, as well as all legal, contractual, financial and administrative management of the Consortium.
The Secretariat also provides support to partners on the following issues:
- Management decisions of the network (related to the consortium/contract management)
- Approval of documents, results and approaches (related to the networking activities)
- Preparation of sustained co-operation
- Effective internal flow of communications and information exchange between partners.