Project management shared workspace

The aim of the Project Management Shared Workspace is to provide a handbook describing the steps and requirements for the pick of project management tool to help implement a project successfully. This document, shall present key elements of project management, and a project manager’s requirements to facilitate his/her daily work in the administrative and financial follow-up of the project.

The Project Management Shared Workspace, just like the Deliverable 8.2 – Project Management Guidelines, is designed to facilitate project management and set an example of good practice for running and upcoming projects in the context of the Horizon 2020 framework programme.

By disseminating ULPEC’s internal guidelines for project management to a public level, we aim to support and help project managers and teams towards the successful implementation and promotion of their projects.

This document to be read in association with the deliverables 8.2 and 7.1 for a complete overview of ULPEC’s practices for qualitative project management.

In this deliverable, the reader will find the project management requirements, practices, procedures, tools and documentation essential to the implementation of Horizon 2020 projects and compliance with the European Union’s values and policies for research and innovation.

Readers will first learn of the ULPEC project in terms of structure, partners and research, then read about the project’s general expectations in terms of project management tools.

They will then be provided by the list of features essential to the following aspects: administrative and financial management, dissemination and exploitation of the results of the project, collaborative work and document edition.
They will furthermore learn about the motives for the choice of the EMDesk platform to facilitate project management for ULPEC.