What do we do at the kick-off meeting?

The three main things at the kick off meeting:

• Meet face to face and get to know each other
• The formal Project management
  • Confirm and clarify the management structure and roles
  • Contractual issues,
  • Financial issues, payments and cost reporting,
  • Project reporting and reporting periods
  • Project internal communication
• Get the work started
  • Plan the first half year/year of work
  • Agree on how to do the work; how and what each partner shall do in tasks and WPs
  • Clarify responsibilities and obligations of WP leaders and task leaders

The kick off should lay the ground for a common understanding of how an EC project should be run. But most important is to get the work started from day one. After the kick-off each partner should fully understand what they are going to deliver and they should be ready to start working as soon as they come home.