KEY TARGET AUDIENCES. The main target audiences of the project are: education/training centers and school, higher education universities and research centers, academic researchers, ecology professionals (ecologists), students of ecology, NGOs operating in the field of ecology, associations with related activities (associations of fishers etc.), SMEs operating in the field of ecology, nature parks administration, EU/national state authorities, EU/national regulators, EU/national policy makers, international organizations in the field of ecology, similar project initiatives, general audience. The project also indirectly targets policy makers which work on policies that support environmental regulations and the business friendly smart growth specialization. The listed actors will be involved in the project through implementation of various activities as dissemination and communication, awareness raising, educational/training activities. The dissemination and communication activities (info days, conferences) will target all of the aforementioned groups with a particular focus on academic researchers, universities, education/training centers and ecology professionals. These groups will be encouraged to improve their capacity for the utilization of innovative and competitive smart technology to monitor areas most closely related to climate change and anthropogenic impacts and building capacity for fire and flood protection.
KEY TARGET AUDIENCES. The project management structure will consist of a Steering Committee (SC) and the Technical/Scientific Committee (TC) and Project Teams. The Steering Committee (SC) will include one the representative of each partner institution that will monitor the project progress with respect to the main objectives. Members are officially appointed by the legal representative of their institutions at the first Transnational Partnership Meeting. SC will be charged with (a) project administration, (b) allocation of workloads, deadlines and schedules, (c) budget control and authorization of expenditure. The coordinator of the project will be responsible for the concrete executive actions and financial management. These must comply with the decisions of SC. Each SC member will be responsible of carrying out the tasks, of taking decisions and performing proper actions on a local level to ensure smooth project development. The Technical/Scientific Committee (TC) of the project will be composed by one representative of all the organizations of the consortium and one external expert. Committee deal with the scientific guidelines for reaching the project results. The Project Teams consist of the Project Manager, the Financial Manager, the Administrative assistant and the work project coordinators. Each of the partner management teams will be led by a coordinator who is a member of the Steering Committee and manages and is responsible for the implementation of the Project activities, in the respective organization. The teams of all partners include: • Financial manager, who will set up and implement a dedicated financial management system which includes accounting, financial reporting and the verification of expenditure by controllers; • Manager project activities who will be responsible for the preparation and implementation of the planned activities; • Administrative assistant - prepares and maintains records of the documents in the archive of the Project.; • Every partner will have an Expert tender procedure, which will be responsible for the preparation and implementation of the tender procedures.; • All partners have planned and an internal or external evaluation expert which role is monitoring the implementation of planned activities and achieving the objectives of the project as well as monitoring of the spending of the project funds. The Lead partner communicates with the JTS and MA on all issues related to project implementation, while Project Partners communicate on a...
