SiEUGreen - D7.1 Quality Assurance and Risk Management Plan

This document presents the quality assurance and risk management plan of the project SiEUGreen (Sino-European innovative green and smart cities). It describes and analyses the components of the project implementation as well as the respective procedures that will ensure the highest possible quality of project execution and the effective management of risks that might appear during the project implementation. Additionally, it presents the project innovation management strategy and process. According to the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Quality Assurance is “The planned and systematic activities implemented in a quality system so that quality requirements for a product or service will be fulfilled.” Risk management in turn refers to the process of identifying, analyzing and mitigating unexpected events or conditions (i.e. risks) which create uncertainty about the project as they affect it either positively or negatively. Last, innovation management refers to the establishment of procedures which ensure the management of the entire innovation process, from the generation of a novel idea to product development. The document, first, integrates quality assurance, risk management and innovation management within the overall structure and organization of project management to illustrate how each part of project management interacts with the core of it and with each other. In the following sections, the quality assurance, risk management and innovation management processes are analysed. Last, a draft letter to the Advisory Board members is presented