Overall working methods All members of EuReSIS Net will contribute to realizing the targets of the project. The successful collaboration between the Coordinator and his team, the Steering Committee, the 4 Heads and the 4 Workgroups is necessary in all stages of the tri-annual project. The Coordinator is responsible for the organizational structures of the project and the working relationships which will develop. He has to view every single decision that is taken not as an isolated action but in the context of the whole life span of the project.

The Coordinator should take special care that there is enough space and time for real teamwork: for sharing and making use of different experiences and developing something new all together. The project is a continuous learning process for all participants, especially for the Coordinator. Responsibility for different aspects of the project work is shared according to the expertise and interests of the project members. The Coordinator coordinates the different independent strands of action within the project and unites the finished parts at the end. Therefore the foundation of the project, its working method and a team spirit must be properly established. A very important issue is the interaction between society and EuReSIS. Conferences will play a fundamental role towards this direction.

The Steering Committee will be responsible for detailed planning, project management, coordinating and editing the main annual outputs and the internal evaluation. The Steering Committee is composed of the Coordinator, four (4) members from Law Workgroup, two (2) members from Religious Studies Workgroup, two (2) members from Social Sciences Workgroup and one (1) member from Education Workgroup that is a total of ten (10) individuals. This will ensure the necessary two-way exchange of information between the participants and the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee will meet at the start of each of the three years (3 meetings) to define the detailed working methodology and terms of reference for the Workgroups. It will also be responsible for bringing together the results of the Workgroups reports and producing the annual project outputs.
The four Workgroups will be the thinking tank of EuReSIS and at the same time the main tool for mapping, analyzing, reporting. Each of the four Workgroups is devoted to a specific discipline (law, religious studies, social studies, education) and has a Head Coordinator. Partners 33, 5, 26 and 62 are the Heads of the Workgroups. The activities of the Workgroups will be monitored by the Head of each Workgroup. For each output, in the frame of each Workgroup, responsible are the Head of the Workgroup and the appointed member of the Steering Committee assisted by the other Steering Committee’s members of the same Workgroup. The results of the activities of Workgroups (mapping results) will be collected and stored electronically. For the dissemination and evaluation of their work, see 4.2 and 4.3. The 4 Heads will meet three times (once per year) in order to collect and manage the data gathered and produced by the 4 workgroups and conduce to final reports which are necessary to realize the project outputs.

Workgroups meetings have an important role to play. These will be the biggest events in the tri-annual life of the project. They will take place in Thessaloniki at the end of 2006, together with the General Assembly meeting and the first Conference. During this occasion all Network members will have the chance of direct and mutual communication. The last meeting will take place in Nicosia at the end of the third year of the project with main activity: the study of EuReSIS future and the establishment of the European Institute for Religion and State Studies.
Careful planning illustrates the need for a well-established and effective communication and information system which supports the whole process and helps to avoid wasting time and money, misunderstandings and even conflicts. Partners either work individually or according to their transnational cooperation groups and exchange information and communicate with each other via project communication systems. (VoIP, teleconferences etc.)

Use of extent information and communication technologies
New information and communication technologies will be widely used. The structure of the communication system has been planned and has also been estimated in the budget. An IT expert will be appointed to set up and maintain these structures. If necessary, the IT expert should be responsible for developing and/or configuring a tool to suit the specific needs of the project. E-mail will be used for regular, daily communication. A restricted area on the project web site will be established to facilitate working together on a specific task in a virtual working environment. The documentation and reporting system is also the principal tool for running and monitoring the project. A project restricted area can be used effectively, in order to achieve tasks such as data collection and storing, outputs and project dissemination and evaluation. Video conferences can help to intensify the transnational team work between steering group meetings or between team members who do not travel regularly. IT experts will support technically E- learning courses and help partners to use internet technologies (teleconference, VoIP, Chat rooms, Forums e.t.c). The effective function of information communication technologies will contribute determinately to the decrease of the project cost.

Methods envisaged for producing the project outputs
The working methods for the production of each output will be specified by the Steering Committee each year. The outputs of each Workgroup will form the primary material out of which the Head of the Workgroup, the appointed member of the Steering Committee (assisted by other members) will prepare the specific project outputs listed in section 3. This will involve questionnaires, data collection and entry into databases. This stored data will be presented, discussed and interpreted by Workgroups virtually and during meetings. All members will then have the opportunity to modify their information in the light of the discussions and agreements made by the Workgroup. All separate reports will be combined into the final annual report by the Steering Committee and the responsible members for each output. The communication system will be the tool for the management of the produced material.