IC Consultants Ltd (ICON) is a wholly-owned company of Imperial College London specialised in managing and coordinating large multidisciplinary projects and in QA/QC for RTD activities with expertise and experts. ICON works together with research organisations, companies and academia on a range of technology transfer and support projects as part of an ongoing programme to strengthen the research, innovatory and technological capabilities of SMEs. ICON has previous experience in participating and managing large multidisciplinary projects across EU and with candidate country participation. ICON is currently working as a contractor and has experience in working with DG-IST, DG Research, DG Environment, EuropeAid, JRC and other DGs, with other funding bodies such as World Bank, UK's DfID, UK and international charities.
Through its dedicated Project Management Team, ICON will support the Coordinator in the Consortium Management, for any contractual and project running issues, for the knowledge management, for coordinating the external training activities and towards an efficient dissemination of the findings. Through its experience in technology transfer and best practice, ICON will aim to create a common platform for the participating end-users with the aim to attract more SMEs and industrial users in widening the scope of the project. ICON will deal with the dissemination of the findings and in the creation and maintenance of the project website.
Dr Radu Rautiu, senior projects manager with ICON will be the Project manager for INTARESE and the SP Leader for SP6. He will coordinate the activity of the Project Management Team and of the dedicated Project Administrator to be recruited. He has a PhD in environmental protection and post-doctoral experience in best environmental practice, water framework directive and diffuse pollution policy and control, web authoring and electronic dissemination. Dr Peter Evans, project development manager, will coordinate WP5.2 External training and dissemination and will deal with managing the end-users and stakeholders for INTARESE. He has an MBA and PhD in analytical geochemistry, project management and delivery of quality assurance strategies for the UK national measurement system in chemical metrology.
Samantha Udondem is project administrator at ICON and will deal with the day-to-day consortium management and administrative issues, including website development, maintenance and dissemination. Paul Docx, the CEO of ICON will deal with legal issues and will oversee ICON’s contribution.
ICON is the SP6 Consortium Management Leader and also is leading WP6.2 Dissemination and WP6.3 (External traiing), and will contribute to WP5.2 (Internal training). ICON will manage and maintain the Consortium Agreement and will address Intellectual Property Rights issues, technology transfer.
