In the first year of the project, essential steps have been made detailing the work and defining roles and intermediate deliverables and milestones: all of the demonstrator and work package teams had a very good start and are on schedule with the execution of the plans. First experimental results have become available and most results prove to be very promising, indicating that the feasibility to reach the end goals of the project is very high.
In the second year of the project, in most work packages the actual realization work, based on the preparatory work of the first year, has started and was brought to an advanced level of execution. This is the part with the highest level of uncertainty, because unforeseen risks may materialize, and critical delays may occur. Until Covid-19, all risks were manageable and the work in the individual work packages was on track. Adaptions due to changed circumstances have been implemented and opportunities based on newly gained insights have been captured with change request #3, which was defined, approved and implemented in the course of the second year.
The final impact of Covid-19 is still to be assessed, but despite the closure of labs and cleanrooms at several partner locations, the impact on the planned work in Y2 is still relatively limited, thanks to the creativity and agility of the consortium partners. Almost all of the Y2 planned deliverables have been realized and all planned Y2 milestones have been achieved.
In the third year all the preparatory work of the first two years of the project has come together and allowed to create the envisioned fully integrated demonstrators.
During the year, the impact of the COVID-19 restrictions became clearer. This was reflected in a change request (CR#4) where extension of the project with 4 months was proposed to accommodate for some delays in a few deliverables.
With this limited extension, it proved to be possible to realize the project objectives and planned results, so that the project can be successfully closed.
