The European Commission is organizing an information day on 15 April 2016, on the support to the European Open Science Cloud throughupcoming calls under the European Research Infrastructures (including  e-Infrastructures) part of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017.

In the 2015 version of the UbuntuNet Connect Conference, the MAGIC project had a great visibility by the participation of its members in the Africa Connect2 Visibility meeting, the Sci-GaIA Workshop on Open Science and, of course, at the Conference itself.

By means of the MAGIC + Sci-GaIA + TANDEM: Towards Sustainable e-Infrastructures session, held during the second day of TNC16, and of its presence at GÉANT’s booth, the MAGIC Project had a very important visibility in this relevant conference, the one that gathers all the Pan-European NRENs leaders and their worldwide peers with the research and also the industry communitties.

Organized by the European Commission together with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Foundation for Science and Technology) ICT2015 will be held in Lisbon (Portugal) from October 20 to 22nd, and the three H2020 projects will join forces to demonstrate their collaborative power.

The event is organized by the European Commission and expects to receive about five thousand participants in the three days of its completion. MAGIC, the global collaboration project led by RedCLARA, will share a stand and conduct a "Networking Session" with TANDEM and SciGaIA projects, all co-financed by the program Horizon2020 of the European Commission

MAGIC Work Package 1 (WP1) is in charge of the management of the project, task that is led by RedCLARA, the coordinating institution, and in which all the partners are involved.

WP1 Objectives:

• To efficiently manage the project consortium by carrying out adequate planning, implementation and monitoring of the project tasks and activities as well as the timely delivery of reports.
• To secure the adequate coordination among project partners and beneficiaries.
• To appropriately manage the resources.
• To monitor the results and implement corrective measures, if needed.

Description of work

To coordinate the work of the Consortium, there will be a “Steering Committee” composed of one representative of each Partner and coordinated by the Project Leader. This committee will be responsible for making high-level decisions and solving differences that may arise among the work packages, such as different points of view in the implementation calendar of standards or other topics.

The Steering Committee will meet every 3 months in order to receive updates of activities, approve changes and supervise the overall execution of the project.

There will also be a Regional Executive Committee composed of representatives of each of the world regions. This committee will meet once a month and will be responsible for the coordination of work at the regional level. It will report to the Steering Committee and will be coordinated by the Project Leader.

The project will start with a Technical Kick-off Meeting that will include the WP leaders. This will allow for more detailed planning by each WP and the detailed planning of activities in order to ensure that the schedule is completely assumed by each team member.

Each Work Package will be coordinated by the WP Leader who will also be responsible for the appropriate execution of the activities, quality control and the timely delivery of reports. Any change in planning that may imply delays to other packages will have to be approved by the Steering Committee. The WP teams will hold fortnightly meetings and use RedCLARA’s Portal to coordinate their activities and maintain documentation of the project.

The Project Leader’s Office will be in charge of administrative procedures, the control of expenses and the appropriate documentation to be submitted to the European Commission.

Activities:

1.1 General Coordination
1.2 EC Contract management
1.3 Budget management
1.4 Deliverables and Milestones follow up
1.5 Reporting