The project time plan has been arranged on the following schedule:

A Three month ‘kick-off’ or set up period during which both the scientific and administrative programme will be further defined, milestones reviewed and approved, crucially relevant staff appointed and briefed. The main project time plan is then arranged in three cycles, with the project’s progress reviewed at the end of each cycle.

The first cycle is designated as lasting 9 months, the other two operating over 12 months

Mid-terms and final reports of WPs one month before the end of each Cycle, and reviewed by the Executive Project Team which prepares the mid-term and final activity report to the WP1 for transmission to the EU. The Executive Project Team proposes a plan for future activities to the VAMDC Project Board at the end of Cycle 1, 2, 3. At the end of Cycle 1, 2 and 3, the VPB taking into account EPT reports produces the detailed work program for the following Cycle.

A Final Phase of 6 months is planned during which the VAMDC e-infrastructure is envisaged to be a fully active service for 3 months, with a final wrap-up of 3 months where only WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5 will be active.