Organisation CATCH

CATCH is managed by:

• Steering Committee
• Programme committee
• International Scientific Advisory Board
• Executive Board 
• Directors board of Cultural Heritage institutions
• Projectleader's meeting
• Users' committee

Steering Committee:

• supervises the Programme Committee (PC) in the execution of the research programme with regard to progress and cohesion; 
• reports annually to financial partners on the progress of the programme and the financial situation; 
• appoints members of the programme committee;
• approves annually the budget proposal for the programme;
• makes the decisions within the granting procedure based on the advices of the International Scientific Advsiory Board;
• ensures actions to be taken to guarantee the continued availability and sustainability of the programme results.

Programme Committee:

• determines and monitors the course of the research programme;
• develops a list of success criteria which are to be used in evaluating the programme; - formulates a plan for knowledge dissemination;
• prepares a Call for Proposals and formulates the assessment criteria; 
• reports annually on the progress of the research programme, its budgetary situation and its plans for the next years;
• organises a midterm evaluation and the end evaluation of the research programme.

International Scientific Advisory Board:

• brings advice to the programme committee on the quality and the course of the programme in an international perspective;
• assesses and prioritises the full proposals in the open granting scheme and advises the steering committee on the research proposals to be granted.

Executive Board: 

• The Executive Board monitors the daily management of the research programme supported by the CATCH secretariat.

Director’s board of CATCH cultural heritage institutions:

• exchanges their experiences and ‘best pratices’;
• prepares structured facilities within their organisation for the software developed in CATCH.

Project leaders:

• sustain the synergy among the CATCH projects;
• advise the Executive Board and the Programme Committee on the course of the programme;
• ensure the cohesion between the course of research projects and the main objectives of the programme.

Users' Committee:

• monitors the usability aspects during the conduct of the research project;
• provides the project leaders, researchers and programme committee substantive information relevant to the knowledge transfer to practical situations;
• ensures effective transmission of project results to the end-user and translates the users’ concerns relevant to the conducted research.