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1 Changes to Work Plan

A review of the programmes work plan was conducted mid-way through the first year and several changes have been made. These are intended to support the progression of work in the form of a coordinated research programme rather than in a system development style waterfall model favoured by the previous work plan. The new work plan therefore focuses on supporting the research work of individual researchers through project-level knowledge sharing and peer-review of work, exposure of work to researchers outside the project, coordinated comparison and refinement of core research concepts and coordinated support for experimental platforms, through both implementation test beds and simulations.

Broadly the changes in emphasis are:

  • Work packages have been restructured with a focus assuring high quality of research activities.
  • Research Themes that cover the scientific challenges have been promoted to provide the primary means for coordinating research work in specific sub area of the project.
  • Research topics, defined and pursued by individuals or small groups, provide the fine-grained structure that help the structuring of Research Themes.
  • The structure of the Research Themes will be periodically reviewed (at least annually) to accommodate changes to the body of Research Topics and in the state of the art at that time.


    • Specific changes to the work plan are:
  • WP 2, 3 and 4 have been redefined, WP6 has been dropped.
  • WP0 and WP1 remain largely unchanged, as has WP7, which is now relabelled WP5
  • WP2, WP3 and WP4 now report together twice a year in a coordinated deliverable.
  • Full plenary meetings are restricted to four times a year. Two meetings will be associated with the joint WP2/3/4 deliverable reporting (one of which will also coincide with the annual report). The other two will be workshops for detailed presentations of work conducted, plans made for individual research topics and themes and will also provide a forum for researchers to identify synergies between their individual projects and facilitate the forming of work collaboration to leverage the opportunities provided within the interdisciplinary team. At least on of these workshops will involve external participants.


    • The current work plan and any changes will be presented every year in the annual report.