One of the GeNEdu project work packages is WP 3 Quality assurance and monitoring. Quality assurance (hereinafter as “QA”) plays a central role in the implementation of quality management. The goal of QA is to systematically instruct the monitoring of quality related activities for the project, to serve the project team, and to generate materials in order to support the project to produce the planned outcomes.
QA-work is lead based on the QA-plan, which was prepared in accordance with the requirements of the GeNEdu WP 3 work plan in the initial phase of the project. The QA plan contains the purpose and aims of the QA, the measures for quality assurance and quality management procedures in the GeNEdu project. The roles and responsibilities of project consortium members for quality assurance are also described. The monitored steps from planning to follow-up and evaluation are based on the principle of continuous improvement (cf. Deming’s cycle Plan-Do-Check-Act) which is used in project management for the control of processes and project output. The QA plan has been revised twice to serve better the needs of the project’s quality assurance.
The QA work is carried out by the QA team with Jamk as the leader and Guangzhou Health Science College (GHSC) as the co-leader and named QA persons from each partner. The QA team conducts regularly quality monitoring of the project progress and risks by using the Traffic light and Risk prevention tools. In addition, an internal quality assurance report is produced twice a year. The updated quality data based on the tools and the QA-report is presented to the PMG by Jamk with a focus on the issues which need further attention. The quality of the project is also ensured by collecting feedback from all project events and trainings and assessing completed deliverables. There are also different kinds of indicators via which it is followed the progress and realization of the objectives.
