WP7: Quality Assurance

The consortium strongly believes in the necessity of an efficient quality
framework, appropriately adapted for its purpose in the project. To help ensure
independence, one partner will assume main responsibility for the Working
package and will coordinate with all WP leaders, to ensure that key project
processes, activities and outputs are correctly positioned within the overall
quality framework of the project.
The project will use and Evaluation approach aiming to identify in advance the
potential risks or failures that might endanger the project’s timely and effective
implementation and to mitigate, at an early stage, their impact on the project’s
processes and outputs by setting certain quality standards. The overall aim is to
safeguard the critical path of the project and to ensure the delivery of quality
outputs and results by:
 Evaluating the management of the project
 Evaluating the results of the project
 Following up the indicators described in the project
 Using the Logical Matrix Framework as a Balance Scorecard to
manage the project
Risk management will be introduced from the beginning of the project to identify
potential problems, failures or delays before they occur so that risk handling and
remedial actions may be planned and triggered, if needed, throughout the
project’s life to mitigate a negative impact on the project’s outputs, results and
overall quality.
The project coordinator is responsible for applying an overall risk management
strategy in a coherent and effective manner given that risk assessment is a
continuous process. A close collaboration with activity leaders in identifying risks
must take place.

IST has developed and disseminated the Quality Management Plan. QA officers have been identified from each organization to facilitate the Quality Management of the Project.
BOOST Quality Management Strategy
Members of QA Committee