Monthly Progress Report: (Text in Red Has To Be Replaced With The Relevant Entries) Yyyy Project Name XXXXX/XX/XX/XX
Monthly Progress Report: (Text in Red Has To Be Replaced With The Relevant Entries) Yyyy Project Name XXXXX/XX/XX/XX
Month YYYY
Please provide a summary of the activities performed during the reporting period.
Please try to follow these guidelines:
Be concise
Avoid a report that is too structured (like reporting by each WP)
Do not keep reporting past issues by adding new things to old ones which are
not relevant anymore for the time span covered in the report
Consider the Monthly Progress Report as a tool not only to keep ESA
informed, but the whole project team
Be systematic; provide the Monthly Progress Report on time, and not only
during the first months. Suggestion: put a repeating monthly entry into the
electronic calendar of the person responsible for producing the monthly report.
Include a fixed calendar date when the next project milestone is going to take
place
Possible example:
Following the Baseline Design Review (BDR), which took place in the headquarters
of the company XXX on 12 March 2020, the Requirement Document has been
finalised taking into account the Actions agreed at the BDR meeting.
The hardware design activities have started with the initial selection of the
Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) components required for the development of the
user terminal. The CPU selected is XXX and it has been verified that it will be
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Please indicate here any problem areas that you encountered or that you are
envisaging (risks) and any corrective and/or mitigation measures that will be taken,
and when.
Please provide a short summary of the activities to be undertaken for the next period.
D. Marketing Plan
Please provide a short summary of the marketing activities undertaken in the last
period, including web stories on websites, Googleadsense, giving presentations at
exhibitions, , stand at exhibition(s), production of brochures.
Possible example:
In April 2020 the company XXX participated to the European Workshop for Maritime
Applications, where a presentation of the project was delivered. A follow-up meeting
took place with a potential customer organisation based in Ireland, which expressed
a potential interest for 20 systems. The web site of the product has been revised,
which offers now a video demonstrating the concept of the product AAAA. In the last
month according our web stats package this video has been clicked on 1500 times..
The product brochure has been finalised and a first batch of 150 prints have been
produced.
The company BBB will participate in the Hamburg events of 28-30 October 2020,
where the service will be presented in the stand co-hosted with the company CCC.
E. Current Status Update for the Project Web Page under the ESA Web Site
This paragraph will be used to update the current status of the Project Web Page,
which will be published on the ESA Web Site. Please remember that this paragraph
(that you provide here) will be made public!
This paragraph shall be provided whenever the project has significant achievements
to report (e.g. milestone achieved, or some important messages to deliver). Please
concentrate in describing the new achievements, and remove the ones covered in
the previous versions of the Monthly Progress Report.
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The typical length of this paragraph is expected between 100 and 150 words.
The ESA Technical Officer of your project will take care of the implementation of the
updating of the web page.
Starting from the SAT (Site Acceptance Test), add as annex the Pilot Utilisation
Summary Report (see next page).
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