NAPCORE

Governance

  • The NAPCORE Steering Committee is the ultimate decision-making body of the Consortium. 
  • The NAPCORE Core Alignment Team (CAT) is the supervisory body for the execution of the Project and reports to and is accountable to the Steering Committee. The NAPCORE Core Alignment Team is responsible for the management of the Project in terms of monitoring progress of the work and results in time and quality supporting the Secretary General. All Working Group Leads are part of the NAPCORE Core Alignment Team.
  • The Project Coordinator is the legal entity acting as intermediary between the Parties and the Funding Authority and appoints the Secretary General. 
  • The Secretary General is the  project manager and is appointed by the Project Coordinator. The Secretary General is in charge of the overall project coordination on a day-by-day basis and represents the project towards the stakeholders outside the Consortium. The Secretary General also acts as the quality and risk manager, monitoring the progress in terms of technical, resource and risk contingencies. The Secretary General is managing the project secretariat, as the day-to-day support team for overall coordination, organisational and management duties. 
  • The NAPCORE Advisory Board is an advising body for solicited and unsolicited (non-binding) advice to NAPCORE’s Consortium Bodies and is the main form and institutionalized process for stakeholder involvement of NAPCORE.
  • Furthermore, there are Working Groups and Tasks, with their respective Working Group and Task Leaders responsible for their topics.