Quality control will be integral part of the project to ensure that objectives are met in the most effective way. At the beginning of the project Quality Control Plan with specific results to be developed. The quality control strategy comprises:

  • Day-to-Day Internal Evaluation of the project by the WP leader and co-leader.
  • External evaluation of the entire project will be conducted by external expert selected based on the international call. The external expert will support in Quality assurance (WP 5) of the project, in particular the expert shall: (1) Provide 4 assessment documents and improvement recommendations for (i) capacity building training package structure and methodology, (ii) the quality of national and institutional regulatory documents (structure and major provisions), (iii) the project intermediary report and (iv) the project final report.  (2) Provide 3 Assessment documents for the project major meetings and events, including (i) capacity building training in Porto (M6Y1), (ii) public consultation event in Yerevan (M12Y1), (iii) exchange on results of pilot implementation of the developed policy, legal and organizational framework of DE in Vilnius (M6Y3).
  • The materials (National and institutional) produced by the partners (WP2, WP3) will also be evaluated by the GB, which is a strategic body and is responsible for the overall quality of the project. Senior representatives of PCs and EU partners including representatives from MESA will be the main strategic body for quality control & monitoring and it will monitor and approve the quality of the planned project results against established qualitative & quantitative indicators of progress (LFM).
  • WP5 leader and the co-leader will periodically produce reports and recommendations in correspondence with the Project Work and QC plan. The WP 5 leader is an EU partner (VU), which will ensure objective external ongoing evaluation of this national project.

Peer reviews and inter-project coaching with Erasmus plus projects on internationalisation will become a part of the QC plan.