HBM4EU from the Coordinator's perspective : lessons learnt from managing a large-scale EU project
Faculty/Professorship: | International Relations |
Author(s): | Gehring, Thomas ![]() |
Publisher Information: | Bamberg : Otto-Friedrich-Universität |
Year of publication: | 2022 |
Pages: | 7 |
Source/Other editions: | International journal of hygiene and environmental health, 247 (2023), 7 S. - ISSN: 1618-131X |
is version of: | 10.1016/j.ijheh.2022.114072 |
Year of first publication: | 2023 |
Language(s): | English |
Licence: | Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:473-irb-573386 |
Abstract: | We discuss some important management issues of the Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) from the perspective of the Coordinator that may be valuable for the design and management of similar projects. As a large-scale international collaborative project, HBM4EU comprised 118 institutions from 30 countries and the European Environment Agency and had a budget of about €74 million. It has set up an innovative cooperative network of national and EU authorities and scientific institutions at the science-policy interface. A project of this scale raises major management challenges and requires transparent, efficient, and well-organized administrative and scientific steering structures. We present four major points: First, prior to the beginning of the project, the Consortium Agreement needs to be well elaborated to prevent conflicts during the project lifetime. Second, a strong role for national and EU policy-making authorities in the administrative governance structure enhances the interest of recipients of project results. Third, large-scale international collaborative projects need an elaborate and well-financed scientific governance structure. Fourth, a differentiation of funding rates among project activities threatens to create conflicts. HBM4EU provides a prototype for EU funded large-scale projects targeting future policies for realizing the Green Deal and Zero Pollution Ambition in the field of chemicals, health, and environment. |
GND Keywords: | Europäische Kommission. HORIZON 2020; Forschungsprojekt; HBM4EU; Projektsteuerung; Projektstruktur; Projektmanagement |
Keywords: | HBM4EU, Large scale EU project, Horizon2020, Project governance, Coordination, Management |
DDC Classification: | 320 Political Science |
RVK Classification: | AK 30300 |
Type: | Article |
URI: | https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/57338 |
Release Date: | 20. December 2022 |
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