The Cross4all project brings together a consortium that exploits the natural synergies between the participating partners. The consortium has made an effort to ensure that maximum use is made of the individual experience and expertise of the different participants and guarantee complementarity of the partners and their activities within the context of the project. The consortium has been carefully selected to combine all competencies required for project development, data providing, validation, as well future sustainability and capitalization. The main rationale behind the selection of partners was to find the experts in the Cross4all technology, knowledge fields and healthcare domains and transfer their knowledge and high skills to the system being developed. Thus the proposed consortium is ideal from the perspective of serving the complete value chain that is very likely to be applicable for the thematic field that Cross4all enters and creates. The consortium is well balanced to be able to deliver on time the proposed ICT solution, validate it sufficiently, demonstrate its impact and finally capitalize the results.

The consortium includes partners from academic institutions, municipalities, a hospital and a national representative organization of the disability movement in Greece. The partnership accounts for technology provision the Lab of Medical Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) and the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies (FIKT) at the University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bitola (UKLO), and for medical services, research and analysis the Institute for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of cardiovascular diseases St. Stefan Ohrid.

Project Management will be led by AUTH, which have extensive experience in EU and Cross-border projects, while all partners will contribute by participating to coordination and technical meetings and providing information for progress/financial monitoring.

The choice of collaborating with NCDP is based on its institutional role, its recognized experience and know-how, on its managerial capacity and on the relevancy of its own aims with the Project’s objectives, since NCDP:

a) has an active Annex in Thessaloniki;

b) is a recognized social partner in disability issues;

c) has been officially certified as a lifelong learning provider for persons with disabilities;

d) had acquired a project management capacity as a beneficiary of the National Strategic Reference Frameworks 2007-2013;

e) aims, under Statute, to develop social inclusion programmes, and actions such as those included in this Project;

f) has a leading role, in both national and international level, in promoting the accessibility of ICT applications (e-accessibility) and the use of ICT for the social inclusion of people with disabilities (e-inclusion);

g) is a founding member of the European Disability Forum and a leading member of the International Disability Alliance, therefore it has a clear influence on European and global policies.

According to its organizational chart, President is entrusted with the responsibilities of the Executive Director, and also supervises the Divisions, Departments and Services. The Policy and Programs office, the Administrative and Financial Services Department, the Press office, the Legal office and the Secretariat will actively contribute to the coordination, the management and the implementation of the Project, ensuring its success.

The proposed work plan is building on two of the most advance municipalities of the CB area in terms of provision of health and social services at municipal level (e.g., the Municipality of Neapoli-Sykies employs 27 doctors, has two Multi-health center with several departments equipped with state-of the art technologies, has 2 municipal medical centers covering over 45.000 citizens per year, runs a help at home services for several years, and maintains in total over 60 social structures for vulnerable groups).