The initial country consortium establishing the LifeWatch research infrastructure agreed to finance the start-up activities for the infrastructure construction. These countries will host the Common Facilities of LifeWatch.
Three countries host the distributed LifeWatch Common Facilities
Several important LifeWatch tasks must be taken up by the initial LifeWatch consortium. The Stakeholders Board agreed that Italy, the Netherlands and Spain take lead by pledging financial support for establishing the technical, managerial and legal aspects of the LifeWatch Common Facilities on the basis of their respective capabilities and commitment. The representatives of Italy, the Netherlands and Spain have agreed that there is a need of coordination among countries in all main strategic aspects of the LifeWatch development and in the key strategic technical aspects, but also that the main responsibilities can be allocated among partners according to the following scheme:
All persons and services contributing to the start-up activities are assigned on temporarily basis and will initially be directly paid from hosting countries. They operate together as single team and with united management. A clear organizational structure for the project is designed, able to operate in the interest of the emerging infrastructure. Some selected experts from the Preparatory Project are contracted in the start-up activities to provide general advise and actively participate in a number of these activities with their collective knowledge on the interconnected construction projects and their networks.
All European countries are invited to join the establishment of the LifeWatch European Research Infrastructure Consortium.