Governance Structure & Sub-Committees

Steering Board (STB)

The STB is the main decision-making body governing the network, competent to deliberate overs: 1) The monitoring of the project; 2) The project content, budget and IP rights; and 3) The consortium evolution.

Project Manager (PM)

A PM will assist with the day-to-day running of the project. The PMT will coordinate communication within the project, collect, review and assist in preparing progress and financial reports, and coordinate and manage DR recruitment.

Project Management Team (PMT)

The PMT is composed of the PC (Prof. Helfert, NUIM), the Project Manager (PM; NUIM and the project co-chair Dr. Pourzolfaghar (NUIM). The PC chairs the PMT. The PMT will monitor, oversee, and assess the status of the project during weekly meetings, or when needed (physical/phone/online), and reports to the SB (supervisory board).

Supervisory Board (SB)

The SB includes all supervisors from beneficiaries and associated partners and one representative from the recruited DRs. The SB will be chaired by the PC (Prof. Helfert).

The SB is responsible for coordination of the training and supervision activities, competent to deliberate over the implementation of the training programme, any change to this programme (at the individual or network-wide level), adequacy of the supervision, training and logistical support given to the DRs.

All sub-committees will report on their progress and present any unpredicted issues to the SB during network wide training events. The SB will report to the STB every 6 months.

The SB will meet at least twice a year, usually at the network-wide training events. Extraordinary meetings will be organised upon request of an SB member, and will be held online (e.g., via online video conference).

Sub-Committees

There are five sub-committees for governance of Entrust project. All sub-committees will report their progress and present any unpredicted issues to the SB during network wide training events. The structure of the committees is summarised in the table below.

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Training Committee (TC)

TC chaired by Prof. Fountas includes Prof. Tegolo (UNIPA), Prof. Mirijamdotter (LNU), Dr. Regan (TEAG), Prof. Stanoevska (USG), Ms. Barrett (AF), Dr. Pourzolfaghar (NUIM) responsible for the EnTrust training programme, the quality of training, efficiency of the training and network-wide events. The TC will provide guidelines and principles for trainers and training to ensure consistency and will produce an annual training report reviewing training events, the progress of PCDPs, presented to the SB, every 6 months.

Research Coordination Committee (RCC)

RCC chaired by Prof. Mirijamdotter (LNU), co-chaired by Prof. Fountas (AUA) will be responsible for supervision arrangements of DRs and monitoring of research quality and efficiency. The RCC is responsible for developing and overseeing the quality assurance policy. The RCC will review IRP ethical forms for data collection. RCC include, Dr. Pourzolfaghar (NUIM), Dr. Lenzitti (UNIPA), Prof. Kurti (LNU), Mr. Heimersson (SOD), Dr. Bonura (ENG).

Communication & Public Engagement Committee (CPEC)

CPEC is chaired by Ms. Barrett (AF) and includes Prof. Fountas (AUA), Dr. Lenzitti (UNIPA), Ms. Bargione (MAR), Mr. Löwenadler (HLD), and Dr. Kotsopoulos (AA). The committee will coordinate the EnTrust Communication & Public Engagement activities.

Dissemination, IP & Exploitation Committee (DIEC)

DIEC is chaired by Ms. Bonura (ENG) and includes Dr. McAdoo (AF), Dr. Rizou (SL), Ms. Rosenqvist (IC), Prof. Tegolo (UNIPA), Mr. Connolly (NUIM, Tech Transfer). DIEC will review IP and exploitation opportunities (Section 2.3.2) and is responsible for the EnTrust DMP (Section 1.2.5).

DC Committee

This committee will involve all 11 DCs and be chaired (on a rotating annual basis) by an individual DC, elected by the Entrust DC community, who will liaise with the SB as the DC representative, represent DR matters and coordinate activities involving DCs (e.g., Dissemination, Training event).