2. Monitoring progress and assessing

The MOLTO management structure comprises two bodies whose function is monitoring the progress of the project: and internal and an external one.

2.1 The MOLTO Steering Group

MOLTO has setup a Steering Group to help the management of the project. The Steering Group is composed by the Coordinator, assisted by the Project Manager and by a representative of each site. During the kickoff meeting, each partner has nominated a Site Leader to be active in the Steering Group as follows:

  • UGOT: Aarne Ranta (Coordinator), deputy: Olga Caprotti
  • UHEL: Lauri Carlson, deputy: Seppo Nyrkkö
  • UPC: Jordi Saludes, deputy: Lluís Màrquez
  • Ontotext AD: Borislav Popov, deputy: Marin Nozhchev
  • MXW: Neil Tipper, deputy: Dominique Maret

Work package leaders that have also been nominated during the kickoff meeting, are listed in the online work plan.

Schedule of regular meetings

The Steering Group holds monthly calls (usually during the 3rd week of the month) via Skype and extraordinary calls when necessity arise. The minutes of these calls is posted on the confidential pages of the web site at http://www.molto-project.eu/node/867.

Monitoring activities of the SG

The Steering Group convenes at project meetings, during which a Business Meeting is called to ratify major decisions and to resolve conflicts.

2.2 The MOLTO Advisory Board

The task of the MOLTO advisory board is to perform independent quality assurance and assess the progress of the work. It is composed by leading scientists that are outside the MOLTO Consortium. This choice serves two purposes: to obtain an independent opinion on the research and approaches taken by MOLTO, and to disseminate the work done by the project to related scientific communities.

The final composition of the Advisory Board is the following:

Schedule of regular meetings

Members of the Advisory Board are expected to attend the second yearly meeting, namely project meetings 2, 4, and 6 to learn about the yearly outcome of MOLTO. Their travel costs will be funded by MOLTO.

Activities of the Advisory Boards

The Advisory Board will write an assessment report which will be delivered as part of the yearly report to the Commission. This report will evaluate the results and, if desirable, suggest ways to improve them.