o The project Management and Governance boards and committees have been established, as below:
- Project Management Team
- Supervisory Board of the Network
- External Advisory Group
- Ethics Advisory Board
- Training Committee
- Research Management Committee
- Dissemination and Outreach Committee
- Doctoral Candidate Committee
o Recruitment of the 10 Doctoral Candidates
The doctoral candidates were recruited in line with the mandatory requirements as set out in the Grant Agreement. 184 applications were received from countries all over the world. The successful candidates are from Turkey (2), Portugal, India, Pakistan, Russia, China, Italy (2) and the Netherlands.
o Research progress
Each Doctoral Candidates has developed a Career development plan (CDP) and a plan for their individual research project (IRP). All have received ethical approval from their individual host organisations and are progressing with their respective CDP and IRP plans.
o Publications
Each work package has produced at least two publications or in-progress publications, as per scheduled deliverables. Details of publications have been submitted in August 2024 as part of deliverables for Work Packages 2, 3, 4 and 5.
o Dedicated project website
https://msca-participate.eu/(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)The PARTICIPATE project website, established in October 2022, is the central repository for project information and news.
o Doctoral candidates' Training programme
The training programme is well under way with 3 network-wide training events already completed.
o Scheduled Deliverables and Milestones progress
The following Deliverables have been submitted:
D1.1 Data Management Plan
D1.2 First Annual meeting minutes
D1.3 Establishment of the Project Supervisory Board
D1.4 Set up of the Project Website
D1.5 Project Handbook
D1.6 2nd Annual Meeting minutes
D1.8 Recruitment of the 10 Doctoral Candidates
D1.9 Project Progress report
D2.3 Scientific Publications
D3.5 Scientific Publications
D4.4 Scientific Publications
D5.3 Scientific Publications
D6.1 Individual Career Development plans for the Doctoral Candidates
D6.3 Scientific Training event 1
D6.4 Scientific Training event 2
D7.1 Dissemination and Exploitation plan
D7.5 Communications and Public Engagement Plan
D7.8 Sustainability Plan
D7.9 Media Engagement Plan
D8.1 Establishment of the Ethics Advisory Board
D8.2 First report of the Ethics Advisory Board
The following Milestones have been achieved:
M.1 Project Kick-off Meeting
M.10 Consortium Agreement completed
M.12 Planned Recruitments completed
M.13 All recruited Fellows enrolled in PhD programme
M.11 Project mid-term check
M.6 Summer School 1 (Winter School)
