This WP includes all activities necessary to guarantee an efficient transnational project management. Responsible for the overall management is the Lead Partner (LP); a project office will be installed and a coordinator contracted. For additional support, external financial and organisational assistance for the overall project will be contracted. These activities include contacts and reporting to the JTS. The Project Parters (PPs) have project management structures at their organisations. The relevant bodies for decision-making and project evaluation are the steering group (SG) and the Project Management Group (PMG). Responsibilities: PMG, all partners, discussion of status of the project implementation (scientifically), clarification of general issues management issues. SG, representative PPs: fundamental decisions (project strategy, budgets, partnership, etc.). Evaluation is assured by the cooperation with the observer partners as the International Commission of the Protection of the Danube River.

Activities:
1.1. Project set up: installation of the project office at the LP organisation, employment of the project coordinator at the LP, assistant and an accounter, signning sub-contracts,set up a projects contact database, all necessary management and communication tools; creating a project manual which summarizes the deadlines and standard procedures of the project concerning management, communication, publicity, financial management and criteria for project evaluation.

act. 1.2. Transnational management: day-to-day coordination; regular updating the project management tools; coordination of deadlines, procedures, products and reports; coordinating the PPs and the transnational tasks; project monitoring; status reports, progress report, controlling of the project schedule; project coordination in the partner organisations, regional communication, publicity and meetings.

act. 1.3. Internal communication, decision-making: meetings of the steering group as stated in the PA, participation of selected representatives, documentation of the project status on the basis of the standard procedures in the project and finance management, annual meetings; accepting the status reports. Annual meeting of the management group consisting of representatives of all partner organisations.

act. 1.4. Financial management: set-up budget plan, updating, debating and coordinating the partner expenses, remaining budgets; change management for the budgets on demand. Creating status reports every six months for all partners and the control group. Retrieving and compiling the project expenses of all PP, creating and submitting payment claims, managing the payments, co-financing, audits.