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.