S/T methodology and associated work plan. 3.3.1 Overall strategy and general description The project will develop tools and applications in parallel. The leading idea is to have working prototypes from the beginning, and deliver updates frequently. The work is divided into four kinds of packages: Management and dissemination: WP1 and WP10. These run throughout the project. Generic tools: WP2–5. These start early in the project.
S/T methodology and associated work plan. Joint Programme of Activities (JPA)
S/T methodology and associated work plan. 1.3.1 Describe the overall strategy of the work plan To achieve FIGARO's objectives, a work plan has been designed for the duration of 48 months. The overall RTD approach of FIGARO approach is application oriented research, and industry driven; the goal is to convert research and development results into industrial products developed with significant input from stakeholders, including calibration, validation and demonstration at multiple end-user sites across Europe. This work plan foresees 10 Work Packages ("WP") structured in three stages and a set of ongoing horizontal activities accommodates for the interaction among the WPs. Each WP is assigned a WP Leader and has a set of tasks that cover the assignment of that work package. Partners that participate in these tasks are allocated the resources that will facilitate the successful, on schedule completion of the tasks. Most of the WPs are active only partially throughout the entire project as some of the results obtained by a certain WP may provide the input for the subsequent WP. We have grouped the WPs into four blocks as follows:
S/T methodology and associated work plan. The NFFA Design Study will perform the activities described in five work packages (WPs) with the aim of developing a clear mission, a feasible structure, and a scheme of implementation of the new European Research Infrastructure.
S/T methodology and associated work plan. Fig. 8 shows the time plan and the overall strategy of the ASC-Inclusion project.
S/T methodology and associated work plan. 1.3.1 Overall Strategy of the Work Plan WP1: Project Management and Coordination This Work package will organise and implement decision-making, external and internal communication, administrative and technical control of the project. It will set the basis for coordination of the technical activities of WP2-7 and the interaction of partners, and establish links between project partners and the EU, as well as the ICT community.
S/T methodology and associated work plan. B1.3.1. Overall strategy and general description Project Methodology The LarKC project methodology balances two general outcomes of the project: • Research and Development that push the boundaries of scientific excellence in Europe, • Case Studies, Dissemination and Exploitation that push the state-of-the-art of the knowledge benefiting industry and the wider European community. Our ambitious goal of reasoning at Web scale creates a specific burden – our platform needs to be highly usable and extremely scalable. As a consequence, LarKC activities are organized in such a way that the use case implementations and all other research and development activities are tightly coupled but guarded against bottlenecks in development. Activities in LarKC are divided in five main categories and are structures within a spiral life circle as shown in Figure 3: Figure 3: Spiral Research Life Cycle in LarKC Through its iterative structure over elaboration, construction and transition, our spiral approach minimizes the risks associated with lack of communication or overall project coherence. From the very start of LarKC, we will deploy combinations of existing methodologies, techniques and reasoning tools, available off-the-shelf or based on previous EU and national projects within our industrial case studies. The lessons learnt from initial deployment will be used to derive early specifications for the core LarKC technologies. Exploitation and dissemination activities will use early project results to raise awareness within the academic and industrial communities. Our virtuous circle will be completed as integration activities ensure that early prototypes are turned into robust systems of industrial strength. By its very nature, our iterative approach and the continuous alignment will create additional dependencies and thus significant challenges for the management of the project, but will at the same time guarantee that all work in the proposed IP is striving towards the same end; a characteristic that waterfall-like sequential project structures very often fail to meet.
S/T methodology and associated work plan. B.1.3.1 Overall strategy and general description The project objectives will be implemented according to the following work plan. The project’s S&T achievements will be guided by WP1 where the application scenarios will be defined in detail, as well as the collection of data sets and their annotation. The scientific and method- ological foundations will be developed in four workpackages: WP2, WP3, WP4, and WP5, along the objectives defined by WP1. The outcomes of these workpackages will be twofold:
S/T methodology and associated work plan. This section presents the work plan of the project. It presents the detailed work packages, deliver- xxxxx and milestones and the involvement of the different partners.
S/T methodology and associated work plan. B 1.3.1 Overall strategy and general description The project has eight work packages (WPs) to achieve the objectives. WP8 concerns non- technical management, monitoring and evaluation. The technical work packages are as follows: • WP1 = Value-chain assessment and management • WP2 = Reduced post-harvest losses of fresh produce • WP3 = Alternative market development to reduce post-harvest losses • WP4 = Adding value to waste products • WP5 = Food safety, quality and compliance • WP6 = Demonstration of technologies with beneficiaries • WP7 = Dissemination and support to replication. WP1 seeks to evaluate value chains for cassava and yams (fresh and processed) from the farm to the consumers. Specific emphasis will be placed on understanding the levels and causes of post-harvest losses and identifying and evaluating alternative options for reducing such losses. It will also document for specific cases the levels of waste generated, examine related value chains for these products and the impact of developing these alternative value chains. In WP2 technologies for the reduction of post-harvest losses of fresh yam in particular will be developed and validated. This will focus on storage losses in yams looking at improved storage systems and controlling dormancy which are major causes of loss. In WP3 alternative novel markets for processed cassava and yam products will be developed and validated that reduce levels of post-harvest loss and provide increased incomes for small-holder farmers. The key issue in this WP will be the development of viable processing options for yam and cassava that provide options for households to sell their produce for reasonable prices and that result in reduced physical or economic losses. There will be an important balance to strike between products prepared and stored for household use and the generation of income – with the income contributing to food security. Understanding these different processing options and their implications for food security will be an important element of WP1. WP4 seeks to develop new technologies and products and add value to the waste products from processing (mainly from cassava and to a lesser extent from yam). Work will focus on added value products that feed into the human food supply chains, e.g. mushroom production using peels as substrate; use of peels as a raw material for animal feed and using peels as a raw material for added value products, such as sugars and other raw materials for the food in...
