Administrative, financial and legal management

A financial and a legal manager, already affiliated with CNR-INFM-NNL, will be involved together with the coordinator, in the administrative and financial management of the project. They will administrate the budget, the distribution of the EU grant among participants and the payments. They will also prepare annual reviews and audits. After the distribution, each partner will administrate its EU grant. The legal manager will be responsible for the management of IP rights and patents and will watch over the consortium agreement guaranteeing its respect.

Consortium agreement and procedures for conflict resolution

All the partners will conclude and subscribe a consortium agreement under the guidance of the coordinator. In such a document there will be indicated the main rules concerning the organization of the work, the rights and obligations of the Parties and other details regarding the dissemination of the results, the management of the intellectual property and the patent policy according to the EU-CA model. The rules reported in the agreement will be supplementing and not contrasting with those indicated in the proposal of the project. If conflicts among partners will arise, they will be settled friendly. In case it were not be possible, the coordinator will act as independent mediator handling the conflict under the terms of the consortium agreement.