WP 11 COCO: Consortium Coordination

The project MGT structure reflects the complexity of the network and includes a General Assembly, Executive Board, Dedicated Working groups, and an External Scientific Advisory Board. PREPARE is coordinated by the University of Antwerp, which has considerable experience in coordinating and managing large European projects. The Project Coordinator Herman Goossens is supported by the Deputy Coordinator (Menno de Jong of the AMC), who co-chairs the management bodies and replaces the Project Coordinator in his absence.

EMC, specialised in project management of large international RTD collaborations since decades, supports the University of Antwerp as the project office of the project and ensures the day-to-day operational project management and provides the consortium with its project management experience, methods and tools.
The work of the tasks below is therefore under direct responsibility of the University of Antwerp, with day to day operational support by EMC.

Key Objectives

The main objective is to set up an effective management framework for the PREPARE consortium to ensure progress of the project towards its planned objectives and respect of contractual commitments. This platform furthermore aims to:

  • set-up the management infrastructure: management bodies, management procedures and tools, management quality plan, and remote collaboration tools;
  • ensure strategic, financial and contractual management of the consortium, including maintenance of the Consortium Agreement;
  • ensure the da-to-day operational project management.

Deliverables

  • K. Loens and M. Ieven. Using NAATs in a syndrome-oriented approach: Detection of respiratory agents. Published in Molecular Microbiology: Diagnostic Principles and Practice, 3rd edition (edited by D. Persing et al.) 2016. p306-335.
  • Corman VM, Albarrak AM, Omrani AS, Albarrak MM, Farah ME, Almasri M, Muth D, Sieberg A,Meyer B, Assiri AM, Binger T, Steinhagen K, Lattwein E, Al-Tawfiq J, Müller MA, Drosten C,Memish ZA. Viral Shedding and Antibody Response in 37 Patients With Middle East RespiratorySyndrome Coronavirus Infection. Clin Infect Dis. 2016;62(4):477-83. doi: 10.1093/cid/civ951
  • Al-Gethamy M, Corman VM, Hussain R, Al-Tawfiq JA, Drosten C, Memish ZA. A case of long-term excretion and subclinical infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in a healthcare worker. Clin Infect Dis. 2015;60(6):973-4 doi: 10.1093/cid/ciu1135
  • Seong MW, Kim SY, Corman VM, Kim TS, Cho SI, Kim MJ, Lee SJ, Lee J-S, Seo SH, Ahn JS, Yu BS, Park N, Oh M-d, Park WB, Lee JY, Kim G, Joh JS, Jeong I, Kim EC, Drosten C, Park SS. Microevolution of outbreak-associated Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, South Korea,2015. Emerg Infect Dis. 2016;22(2):327-30. doi: 10.3201/eid2202.151700
  • Cleton NB, Godeke GJ, Reimerink J, Beersma MF, Doorn HR, Franco L, Goeijenbier M, Jimene Clavero MA, Johnson BW, Niedrig M, Papa A, Sambri V, Tami A, Velasco-Salas ZI, Koopmans MP, Reusken CB. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015;9(3):e0003580. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003580
  • Cleton NB, Reusken CB, Wagenaar JF, van der Vaart EE, Reimerink J, van der Eijk AA, Koopman MP. Syndromic Approach to Arboviral Diagnostics for Global Travelers as a Basis for Infectious Disease Surveillance. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015;9(9):e0004073. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004073
  • Pas SD, Patel P, Reusken C, Domingo C, Corman VM, Drosten C, Dijkman R, Thiel V, Nowotny N, Koopmans MP, Niedrig M. First international external quality assessment of molecular diagnostics for Mers-CoV. J Clin Virol. 2015;69:81-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.05.022
  • Pas SD, Koopmans MP, Niedrig M. Clinical implications of and lessons learnt from external assessment of Mers-CoV diagnostics. Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 2016;16(1):7-9. doi:10.1586/14737159.2016.1116943

Team members

Herman Goossens Coordinator
Menno de Jong Deputy coordinator
Frank Deege Project manager
Karen Peuteman Administrator

Contact us

Coordinator:

Herman Goossens

Herman.Goossens@uza.be

Deputy Coordinator:

Menno de Jong

m.d.dejong@amc.uva.nl

prepare@uantwerpen.be

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