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WP1 · Coordination – governance, ethics, data, risk · lead CNAM · M1–M48

• D1.1 · M6 Data Management Plan

  D1.1 · WP1 · lead CNAM · DMP · PU. FAIR data management plan, revised towards project end

• D1.2 · M6 Plan for dissemination and exploitation including communication activities

  D1.2 · WP1 · lead CNAM · R · PU. First full plan, periodically updated

• MS1 · M6 Governance, data-management and dissemination plans accepted; interpretive apparatus calibrated before fieldwork opens

  MS1 · WP1. Means of verification: D1.1 and D1.2 accepted by the General Assembly; the M6 calibration workshop held, with the three-register coding frame and the NAF of task 2.2 fixed and minuted jointly by WP2 and WP3. Gates the release of the field manual (MS2) and therefore all fieldwork

• GA1 · M8 General Assembly · Riga

  In-person General Assembly (task 1.1), at which the Executive Board also sits, hosted by the beneficiary whose work is at stake at that moment: M8 in Riga, as Round 1 opens. Two members per beneficiary; POLYGON travels from Montreal to the three General Assemblies of M8, M16 and M24.

• AB1 · M8 Advisory Board sitting (M8)

  The four-seat Advisory Board, appointed by the General Assembly at M3, sits at M8, M24, M32 and M44 – before Round 1, at the SMP conference (in person), at the Observatory's first release and before the integrated assessment. Its members: Mary S. Morgan (narrative methods), Lieve Van den Brande (EU skills policy), Didier Ohayon (operational competence assurance in the energy sector) and Julian Stanley (VET systems and learning outcomes). Convened under task 1.6.

• GA2 · M16 General Assembly · Warsaw

  In-person General Assembly (task 1.1): M16 in Warsaw, as Round 1 is handed to integration and the measurement strand runs. POLYGON travels from Montreal to it, as to the Riga and Brussels Assemblies.

• GA3 · M24 General Assembly · Brussels

  In-person General Assembly (task 1.1): M24 in Brussels, with the SMP conference and the mid-project stakeholder event. The Advisory Board sits in person at the SMP conference.

• AB2 · M24 Advisory Board sitting (M24)

  Second of the four Advisory Board sittings (M8, M24, M32, M44), held in person at the SMP conference in Brussels and convened under task 1.6. Its remit is to test the project's claims against evidence produced outside it.

• AB3 · M32 Advisory Board sitting (M32)

  Third of the four Advisory Board sittings (task 1.6), at the Observatory's first release (D8.1, M32).

• AB4 · M44 Advisory Board sitting (M44)

  Last of the four Advisory Board sittings (M8, M24, M32, M44), before the integrated assessment; convened under task 1.6.

• GA4 · M48 General Assembly · Paris

  The fourth General Assembly (task 1.1): M48 in Paris, in the closing week, inside the final conference of task 10.3 and not separately costed.

WP2 · Apparatus – framework, protocols, baseline · lead CNAM · M1–M9

• P.cal1 · M6 Calibration workshop (M6)

  The three-register coding frame and the narrative-analytic framework of task 2.2 are fixed and minuted jointly by WP2 and WP3, so that they enter the field manual of task 2.3 before any collection; POLYGON, travelling from Montreal, fixes the FCM relation set with them. Part of the means of verification of MS1.

• D2.1 · M7 Narrative-analytic framework, coding architecture and the demarcation criterion (pre-field)

  D2.1 · WP2 · lead CNAM · R · PU. The apparatus turning accounts into explanation, and the criterion separating explanation from a merely coherent story. KER8

• D2.2 · M7 Field manual, Circle protocol and site-selection criteria

  D2.2 · WP2 · lead RSU+CNAM+IRES · R · PU. Sampling, quotas, coding frame, moderation conditions, accessibility, language routing and the CFx pairing rule. Gates all fieldwork

• MS2 · M7 Field manual, Circle protocol and dyad protocol accepted; every dyad under written agreement

  MS2 · WP2. Means of verification: D2.2 accepted; a signed access agreement on both sides of each of the 12 Round 1 dyads. Gates all fieldwork

• D2.3 · M9 Site-dyad protocol and six country vocational-system briefs

  D2.3 · WP2 · lead CNAM · R · PU. The pairing rule and its counterparts, plus one vocational-system brief per country to 2026. KER7

• D2.4 · M9 Pre-field historiographic baseline (HACx)

  D2.4 · WP2 · lead CNAM · R · PU. The historiography of the taught layer at the 18 sites, fixed before the Circles. Closes the apparatus package

• D2.5 · M9 Co-creation and experiential design protocol

  D2.5 · WP2 · lead QUIZAS · R · PU. Stages and tools for collecting testimonies and turning them into situations and experiences for the public

WP3 · Opening – Round 1 collection and presence test · lead RSU · M5–M16

• PH.R1 · M8–M14 Round 1 collection · task 3.1

  Task 3.1, M8–M14 (all fieldwork partners with QUIZAS, coordinated by RSU). Two meso sites per country in FR · BE · LV · PL · SE · ME, two site-weeks run in parallel by the national teams: twelve four-day site-weeks and 36 Sharing Circles across the 12 Round 1 sites. The CFx protocol (task 3.2) runs inside this window – six reciprocal visits across five countries, each visit being the host country's whole Round 1; Belgium sits outside it because CNAM already works it from France. Gated by MS2 (M7).

• MS3 · M15 Round 1 collection complete in all six countries

  MS3 · WP3. Means of verification: 36 Sharing Circles held across the 12 Round 1 sites; first CRIs recorded; per-site quantitative handouts and country meso dossiers delivered

• D3.1 · M16 Lived-Competence Field Digest (QualH), Round 1

  D3.1 · WP3 · lead RSU · R · PU. What Round 1 found, per country and site type, with the register of instruments it informs and the CFx visit record

• D3.2 · M16 Field residency and data collection workbook

  D3.2 · WP3 · lead QUIZAS · R · PU. From the Round 1 residency week: audiences, testimonies, issues, and the catalogue of partner sources feeding the Expo-Action

WP4 · Reading – coding, historiography, handouts · lead RSU · M14–M28

• D4.1 · M17 Researcher-presence effect report, Round 1

  D4.1 · WP4 · lead RSU+IRES · R · PU. The three moderation conditions compared over the 12 Round 1 sites, 12 Circles per condition; consolidated in D7.1

• D4.2 · M17 NECx Round 1 corpus

  D4.2 · WP4 · lead RSU · R · PU. Round 1 six-country narrative corpus, per-register reliability with intervals reported, deposited with its reuse package. Closes WP3

• D4.3 · M20 Policy-Readable Handout and forward options (PRH)

  D4.3 · WP4 · lead IRES · R · PU. The two field digests reconciled into politically readable findings and forward options, carried to the SMP conference at M24

• D4.4 · M22 Round 1 results pack

  D4.4 · WP4 · lead IRES · R · PU. The consolidated Round 1 reading, in the form the Round 2 closing sessions put back to the sites

• PH.T45 · M22–M24 Responsive protocol · task 4.5

  Task 4.5 (IRES with RSU, CNAM), M22–M24: the panel-composition rule – returning Round 1 participants selected on the DCR, on trajectories left sketched and on unfilled quotas, together with newly recruited participants from the same catchment, the two streams reported separately; the recontact-consent architecture and its retention horizon, with the Swedish sites routed through Etikprövningsmyndigheten; and the SMP-return dossier format for each country team. Delivered as D4.7; gates the responsive collection.

• D4.5 · M24 Curriculum response interval: instrument and Round 1 measurement

  D4.5 · WP4 · lead CNAM · R · PU. The project's instrument for RQ5, with its first application at each of the 12 Round 1 dyads. KER7

• D4.6 · M24 Narrative-analytic framework, field-revised

  D4.6 · WP4 · lead CNAM · R · PU. The pre-field framework of D2.1 revised by what Round 1 contributed and extended with the two registers Round 2 codes – policy reception and futures stance – with its register of instruments. KER8

• D4.7 · M24 Responsive collection protocol and confrontation panel specification

  D4.7 · WP4 · lead IRES · R · PU. Panel-composition rule, recontact-consent architecture, SMP-return dossier format and confrontation protocol. Gates Round 2

• MS5 · M24 The policy interface opened: the SMP conference held

  MS5 · WP4, WP9. Means of verification: D4.3 accepted; the SMP conference held and minuted; D4.7 accepted. Gates the opening of the responsive collection (task 7.1)

• P.cal2 · M25 Coding-frame re-validation (M24)

  The coding frame fixed at the M6 calibration workshop is re-validated at M24 (table 3.1e); the narrative-analytic framework, revised by what Round 1 contributed and extended with the two registers Round 2 codes – policy reception and futures stance – is delivered as D4.6 at M24. Drawn at M25 to keep it clear of the M24 deliverables.

• MS6 · M26 Narrative demarcation review passed

  MS6 · WP4. Means of verification: The criterion of D2.1 applied to the Round 1 corpus; the DCR populated and its disposition recorded. A project reporting no discordant cases fails this gate. Gates the entry of narrative-derived categories into the Observatory

WP5 · Translations – academies, youth participation, bootcamp and the Expo-Action · lead ZOCG · M2–M46

• D5.9 · M6 Youth panel, GreenComp inclusion review and voice seed

  D5.9 · WP5 · lead ZOCG · R · PU. The M4 Academy-format youth panel's reading of the frameworks: where they are silent or assume a default subject, the Circle prompts that surface it, the disaggregation the survey must carry

• D5.2 · M28 Youth Orientation Module (YOM)

  D5.2 · WP5 · lead ZOCG · R · PU. Two-month hybrid module before each GTA: recruitment, entry survey, in-person guidance, intervention-age indicator. RQ8, RQ9

• D5.3 · M34 GRBC facilitator manual and participant workbook

  D5.3 · WP5 · lead ZOCG · R · PU. Facilitator manual and participant workbook in English and Montenegrin, so the format can be run outside the consortium

• D5.1 · M36 xEET replication kit and Green Transition Academy (GTA) model

  D5.1 · WP5 · lead IRES+ZOCG · R · PU. GRBC protocol manual, exhibition design protocol and the Academy model, with the SMP format of D9.1. KER6

• MS8 · M36 xEET replication kit and GTA model accepted

  MS8 · WP5. Means of verification: D5.1 accepted by the General Assembly: GRBC protocol manual, exhibition design protocol and Academy model complete, with the SMP format of D9.1. Gates the move from pilot to replication and the xEET evaluation at M40.

• D5.8 · M40 xEET evaluation report

  D5.8 · WP5 · lead IRES+ZOCG · R · PU. Measured GreenComp-mapped competence gains across GRBC, SMP, Expo-Action and the Academies

• D5.5 · M42 Expo-Action design record

  D5.5 · WP5 · lead QUIZAS · R · PU. The design path from the data and testimonies to a universe, characters, situations, scenarios, visitor choices and, finally, the scenography.

• D5.4 · M44 Expo-Action

  D5.4 · WP5 · lead QUIZAS · DEM · PU. The exhibition built from both rounds, with WYUG+SOGIESC-inclusive scenography, installed at the MuAM and built to travel

• D5.6 · M44 Educational toolkits

  D5.6 · WP5 · lead QUIZAS · OTHER · PU. Toolkits for schools, associations and practitioners to prepare the visit and continue the discussion afterwards

• D5.7 · M46 Expo-Action impact assessment protocol and report

  D5.7 · WP5 · lead QUIZAS · R · PU. A before/after instrument built into the scenography, and the report on what the experience changed, from anonymised data

WP6 · Measurement – survey, taxonomy, comparability · lead UW · M10–M28

• P.polygon · M15–M18 Montreal mission · task 6.4

  Task 6.4 (POLYGON with UW, ENoP): the instruments are gridded onto the Meso Competence Survey in person, during a working mission of one UW and one IRES researcher to POLYGON in Montreal between M15 and M18, after Round 1 closes and before D6.1.

• D6.1 · M19 Taxonomy extraction and green-layer validation report

  D6.1 · WP6 · lead UW · R · PU. Gold standard, precision/recall/F1 against the threshold; first external validation of the ESCO green layer. Gates Observatory ingestion

• D6.2 · M19 Field-Derived Competence Taxonomy (FDT) v1 and survey integration note

  D6.2 · WP6 · lead UW · R · PU. The competence layer Round 1 found that the classification does not name, ESCO-checked in every project language

• MS4 · M19 Extraction validation passed

  MS4 · WP6. Means of verification: D6.1 reports precision, recall and F1 at or above the pre-set threshold, or the human-in-the-loop fallback is formally triggered. Gates Observatory ingestion

• D6.4 · M20 Competence Visibility Module (CVM) and Competence Visibility Report (xCVR)

  D6.4 · WP6 · lead UW · OTHER · PU. The module putting the field layer to respondents as quantitative data, and the report returned against a participant-held code

• P.mcs · M21 Meso Competence Survey fielded from M21

  Task 6.3: the Meso Competence Survey is fielded from M21, once the field layer exists, through three recruitment channels, the channel recorded on every response – ~1,800 respondents after Round 1. Deposits: D6.3 at M27, consolidated as D8.9 at M46.

• D6.3 · M27 MCS dataset v1

  D6.3 · WP6 · lead UW · DATA · PU. Round-1-anchored FAIR release, CESSDA/EOSC. KER3

• D6.5 · M28 Comparability route and FCM instrumentation report

  D6.5 · WP6 · lead POLYGON · R · PU. FCM and concept mapping gridded onto the MCS; the ESCO to O*NET and OaSIS route used in D8.2

WP7 · Return – Round 2 collection and closing sessions · lead IRES · M29–M38

• PH.R2 · M29–M36 Round 2 collection (ReCx) · task 7.1

  Task 7.1, M29–M36 (all fieldwork partners, coordinated by IRES). One further meso site per country in the same six countries – six four-day site-weeks – opened only after the SMP conference (MS5, M24), so that the policy feedback the second observation is meant to register exists before the observation begins. Three Circles per site under the conditions of table 1.2c, identical in design to Round 1; each site-week closes with a recorded collection session and a confrontation session (tasks 7.2, 7.3). 54 Circles in all at MS9 (M38), the package's close.

• D7.1 · M38 NECx final corpus and policy-return reception report

  D7.1 · WP7 · lead IRES+RSU · R · PU. Two-round corpus with the confrontation sessions coded, the presence comparison at 18 Circles per condition, and the Round 2 CRI re-measurement. KER7, KER8

• MS9 · M38 Responsive collection complete

  MS9 · WP7. Means of verification: 54 Circles complete; the TCS closed; second interval measurements recorded; a recorded confrontation session held with the mixed panel at each responsive site

WP8 · Synthesis – Observatory, Matrix, Monitor, assessment · lead UW · M32–M46

• D8.1 · M32 Meso Competence Observatory v1

  D8.1 · WP8 · lead UW · R · PU. First release of the meso taxonomy with its regime, country and youth layers, after the D6.1 gate and MS6. KER1

• MS7 · M32 MCO v1 released

  MS7 · WP8. Means of verification: D8.1 published. Gates the Roadmap and seeds the Academies

• PH.TCS · M32–M36 Transition Choices Survey · task 8.5

  Task 8.5 (UW with ENoP, RSU, IRES): the second instrument, not a second wave of the first, fielded M32–M36 to ~700 respondents through the same sites once the policy return has run (the last round, policy-fed) – reception of the policy return, expectations of the skills infrastructure and a discrete choice experiment – with a short fixed core carried over that gives a site-level repeated cross-section. Delivered as D8.4 at M40.

• D8.2 · M36 Meso–macro gap analysis report

  D8.2 · WP8 · lead UW · R · PU. Prescribed/lived distance per territory and regime against the ESCO-mapped and O*NET-based baselines, decomposed against the taught layer

• D8.3 · M40 Site historiographies and the discordant-case register (DCR)

  D8.3 · WP8 · lead CNAM · R · PU. The situated historiography of each of the 18 sites, and the register of cases that resisted the account. KER8

• D8.4 · M40 Transition Choices Survey (TCS) dataset

  D8.4 · WP8 · lead UW · DATA · PU. Reception of the policy return, expectations of the skills infrastructure, and a discrete choice experiment; ~700 respondents, last round. FAIR, CESSDA/EOSC

• D8.5 · M42 The taught layer: response intervals, access gradients and the curricular record

  D8.5 · WP8 · lead CNAM · R · PU. Two-round interval measurement, the WYUG+SOGIESC access gradient per dyad, and the archival baseline. KER7

• D8.6 · M42 The Matrix and the cross-sector homogenisation test

  D8.6 · WP8 · lead IRES · R · PU. Green × digital matrix with the ontological-literacy cluster; the pre-registered test reported whichever way it falls. KER5

• D8.7 · M44 Competence Equity Monitor (CEM)

  D8.7 · WP8 · lead RSU · OTHER · PU. Competence access and gain disaggregated by WYUG+SOGIESC and life-course stage, on the WP2 denominator. KER2

• D8.8 · M44 Energy-sector AI-literacy specification (xAIL)

  D8.8 · WP8 · lead IRES · R · PU. Occupational rendering of AI literacy for energy work, with a self-assessment instrument and a mapping to the Article 4 duty. KER10

• MS10 · M44 Taught layer, the Matrix, xRoadmap and CEM delivered

  MS10 · WP8, WP9. Means of verification: D8.5, D8.6, D8.7 and D9.3 accepted and published; documented feedback instances recorded

• D8.9 · M46 MCS dataset, final

  D8.9 · WP8 · lead UW · DATA · PU. Full six-country wave-1 deposit consolidated with the field layer documented, and the reuse package. KER3

• D8.10 · M46 Meso Competence Observatory (MCO), final release

  D8.10 · WP8 · lead UW · DATA · PU. Two-round taxonomy consolidated with the gap analysis; ESCO-model-native linked open data, FAIR deposit with reuse package. KER1

• D8.11 · M46 Integrated meso assessment and forward-looking layer

  D8.11 · WP8 · lead CNAM · R · PU. Reconciliation of the three evidence streams, the prospective reading, and the cross-strand quality assurance. KER9

WP9 · Policy – the SMP, EU skills-infrastructure feedback, roadmap and guidance · lead ENoP · M18–M46

• PH.SMP · M18–M23 Preparing the SMP conference

  Task 9.1 (ENoP with IRES): preparation opens at M18 – adapting the protocol, constituting the Delphi panel and inviting Commission, Parliament and national policymakers, who need a six-month lead – and the programme is built on the PRH (D4.3, M20). The conference is a one-day event held once, in Brussels at M24 (MS5).

• D9.1 · M26 SMP protocol and framework feedback dossier

  D9.1 · WP9 · lead IRES+ENoP · R · PU. SMP format plus documented feedback into GreenComp, the Union of Skills and the Pact for Skills

• P.smp32 · M32 SMP working session (M32)

  The first of the two working sessions that follow the SMP conference with a small selection of its participants (task 9.1): M32, with the survey evidence. The second, at M44, launches the xRoadmap, the xGuidance and the xProPol.

• D9.2 · M34 EU skills-infrastructure feedback dossier

  D9.2 · WP9 · lead ENoP · OTHER · PU. ESCO change requests through the continuous-improvement and Member State Working Group routes, and the concordance as linked open data

• D9.3 · M44 Policy Roadmap (xRoadmap) and programme guidance (xGuidance)

  D9.3 · WP9 · lead ENoP · R · PU. The three products of KER4, the second co-produced with the WP2 provider institutions

WP10 · Impact – communication, dissemination and exploitation · lead CNAM · M1–M48

• PH.T101 · M1–M48 Dissemination, clustering and communication · task 10.1

  Task 10.1 (CNAM with UW, QUIZAS), M1–M48: open-access publication and preprints; joint activities with the sister TRANSFO cohort (PACT, HIT, MOSAIC), membership of the BOLSTER Just Transition Cluster, and the NEB Academy and STR Partnership contributions; the green-pulse.eu platform and project identity, in place in the first months, and a continuous public-facing channel layer run by CNAM's communication service and fed by all partners. Delivered as D10.2.

• D10.1 · M9 Communication and visibility package

  D10.1 · WP10 · lead CNAM · DEC · PU. green-pulse.eu live, the visual identity, the media kit in seven languages and the EU emblem compliance pack

• D10.2 · M48 Final dissemination, exploitation and clustering report

  D10.2 · WP10 · lead CNAM · R · PU. Open-access record, clustering outcomes and the exploitation position of each KER at project end

• MS11 · M48 Final deposits and reporting complete

  MS11 · WP1, WP10. Means of verification: D8.9, D8.10, D8.11 and D10.2 accepted