Abstract: This deliverable, titled “D1.1: Project administrative, technical & data management handbook”, includes part of the work that is conducted within work package (WP) 1 “Project management, innovation, dissemination, and communication management”. The main objective of WP1 is to deal with the project management, the coordination activities, the technical management, and the quality assurance of the project results, as well as the financial and administrative management, while applying a risk management procedure. In particular, WP1 defines the following activities: i) Overall coordination of the project; ii) Financial administration of the project; iii) Risk management and mitigation of the project; iv) Technical and scientific management of the project; v) Innovation management and added value provisioning of the project results; and vi) Data knowledge handling & Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) management. Moreover, WP1 encloses all dissemination and impact creation activities. Specifically, WP1 defines the required actions to ensure that MINOAS solutions and results will be properly disseminated and communicated to academic & industrial parties as well as to the general public. MINOAS’s results will be distributed by the project’s consortium to internal and external collaborators (researchers, companies, similar projects and individuals).

Motivated by this, the deliverable D1.1 presents an overview of the project administration processes, describes the technical management tools and approaches that are followed, and provides data management guidelines. In more detail, the handbook encloses all procedures and guidelines for the administrative and management requirements of the project. The innovation strategy is defined in D1.1 in terms of ensuring the project excellence. It reports the required processes and procedures for assessing the quality and the guidelines and risk assessment plans of the project. Finally, it addresses the lifecycle and public availability ofresearch data generated by the project.