The progress, quality and achievement of project activities will be achieved by implementing:
- regular assessment of the course and progress of the project by normative-actual value comparisons;
- adjustment of the project management plan in case of detection of possible unexpected developments;
- elaboration of an internal evaluation plan, including organisational and professional aspects;
- gathering and evaluating of the results;
- internal feedback discussions in the project consortium for the purpose of exchanging information and results;
- using the project meetings for the assessment of the course and progress of the project and for the presentation of the internal evaluation results.
The quality of the project's activities will be monitored and evaluated by a Quality Team. At the start of project will be achieved a quality control plan with specific standards, with quality assurance and quality control processes.
The Plan will guide partner's performance and will define the objectives of the quality assurance methodology, indicators, procedures, responsibilities, monitoring mechanisms, and templates. Quality assurance will be a permanent activity, to collect and analyze measurement data, to evaluate processes and outputs. A feedback mechanism will support the respective leaders to monitor project progress and the adherence to project quality guidelines. Project partners will prepare half-year quality reports to control the progress of each phases’ tasks, timely achievement of project milestones and production of project deliverables to the agreed timescales and quality standards.
The frequency of the monitoring activities that will take place are: - Regular online meetings (bimonthly);
- Monitoring action plan (online document that will be constantly updated) developed by UTAD(PT) to check all agreed deadlines;
- The Management and Financial Plan, Quality Control Plan, Promotion and Dissemination Plan, Risk Management Plan will be drafted during the beginning of the project; - Half-year quality evaluation (and dissemination reports) will be prepared by all partners to evaluate the quality standards and achievement of indicators, production of deliverables, and dissemination actions;
- Quality evaluation questionnaires and reports will be developed by DIMEN(TK), including internal evaluation of project results, piloting activities, dissemination events, and evaluation questionnaires for the transnational meetings. These reports/questionnaires will facilitate the quality level of the project results, the satisfaction of end-users and their opinions about the project, and the performance level of the partnership.
All the above activities will be measured on a regular basis to make sure that planned results are achieved in a proper way and on time.