The kick-off meeting of DIGGING Project was held online on the February 10th 2022.

After the wellcome all the partner, in the same order as establish in the agenda made a presentation of their organisations so that we all have a knowledge of the activities each organisation is doing in their own countries.

After that, we started with the application content. Mariano Sanz gave an overview of the project, which results are expected from it, indicating that we do not have all the information from the national agency about the allocated budget.

It has been agreed that templates will be delivered for all official documents such as signature sheets, to avoid problems concerning evaluation processes. And the obligation to have travel insurance and send a copy of it was recalled.

After that, we started to talk about about expected results, and the way to deal  with them with the situation created by having less budget allocated.

In relation to results included in management & implementation, the distribution is as follows:

  • The exploitation plan will be in charge of LATVIA,
  • The Technological Plan in charge of JAITEK,
  • The social media in charge of UPATRAS,
  • The Communication and Dissemination Plan in charge of MRK,
  • The Project Impact and the Evaluation Plan in charge of PROWORK,
  • The Risk Analysis & Quality Assurance Framework in charge of CARDET and
  • UMA will take care of the general coordination and EU Reporting.

Then we talk about the dissemination plan. We explain the need for using DIGGING Logo on official reports, dissemination, and publications together with EU logo and disclaimer and we analyze the possible logos for the project, what we will say before the next meeting.

The coordinator explained possible dates of celebration of the first face to face meeting in Málaga in May.

About management and financial issues, JAITEK will create timesheets for dedication on Intellectual outputs, and will create budget and planning summaries at least each 4 months so that all partners have all the required information about how the project is going on. All the files will be shared using Drive.

Concerning websites and social networks, JAITEK will create the web in the url: http://digging-project.eu

For social networks, we will use Facebook by the moment, and all the partners will collaborate in the feeding of the social networks, UPATRAS will liderate this task. All the partners should create a space in their own website explaining the project and linking to the project site.

All the documentation will be included in a partner folder in google-drive. This will include timesheets, contracts, all the travel documentation (boarding passes, hotel invoices, certificates, travel insurance....)

Julio Ruiz explains that he will send the Partnership Agreement to sign for each of the partners once the agreement with National Agency is signed. 

In relation to project tools, we will use Google drive. Everything that works will stay there. We will also use the Genially tool for the 4 newsletters.

Finally, Pro-work will create the questionnaires and report to evaluate the project, including each meeting. It will be explained in the evaluation plan mentioned above.

We all can prepare by now the Management & Implementation reports

  • The exploitation plan (ULATVIA) -preliminar one, complete one by month 14-
  • the Technological Plan (JAITEK),
  • the social media (UPATRAS),
  • the Communication and Dissemination Plan (MRK),
  • the Project Impact and the Evaluation Plan (PROWORK),
  • the Risk Analysis & Quality Assurance Framework (CARDET)