Objectives:

• Perform the overall legal, ethical, financial and administrative management
• Manage contract and consortium agreement issues 
• Maintain records of cost and effort 
• Monitor the compliance of partners with obligations under the GA 
• Define internal project controls 
• Facilitate communication and co-operation between the partners 
• Prepare periodic management and technical progress reports, as required 
• Provide a point of communication with the EC 
• Prepare the scheduled project reviews 
• Ensure that equal opportunities are offered to both genders 
• Provide technical planning with up-to-date contingency plan 
• Enable effective innovation management and response to opportunities.

Objectives:

• Define use cases, system requirements and system specs 
• Perform the system design of the demonstrators and translate system specs into component specs 
• Design process flow and packaging approach
• Design THz antennas and antenna arrays 
• Carry out system simulations for the demonstrators.
• Design THz antennas and antenna arrays 
• Carry out system simulations for the demonstrators.

Objectives:

• Develop the fabrication process of highly planar polymer surfaces and low-loss single mode waveguides 
• Develop the process for accurate etching of recesses and grooves in the motherboard for flip-chipping of chiplets and micro-optical elements 
• Develop the flip-chip assembly process for photonics and electronics 
• Develop novel PZT phase actuators of low-power (<1 mW) and high speed (<0.1 µs), on TriPleX™ platform, for ultra-low-energy wavelength tuning and switching
• Develop soldering process for photonics and electronics

Objectives:

• Develop the EOPCB motherboard for the precursor modules and final demonstrators 
• Develop high power, narrow linewidth ECL at 780 nm to feed the PPKTP 
• Develop narrow linewidth ECL at 1550 nm with PZT actuation for the FMCW THz spectrometer and QIP 
• Develop Blass and Clements matrix chiplets for the QIP 
• Develop squeezer chiplets with splitting, squeezing and filtering stages for the QIP  
• Develop flip-chip compatible InP THz emitters (antenna coupled PD) and receivers (photoconductive antennas)

Objectives:

• Develop the packaging engine of the demonstrators 
• Carry out electronic design of the EOPCBs to host the chiplets/ICs and develop the co-packaging approach with the electronic ICs 
• Assembly and package two THz FMCW demonstrators (Precursor, Final) 
• Assembly and package two QIP demonstrators (Precursor, Final)

Objectives:

• Define testing methodology, set up system testbeds 
• Define performance evaluation criteria and key performance indicators for FMCW THz and QIP demonstrators
• Develop the driving and read-out electronics for POLYNICES demonstrators
• Testing of the FMCW THz and QIP demonstrators
  Step 1: Testing in lab settings
  Step 2: Test the identified key parameters against reference systems

Objectives:

• Perform a market analysis and create a roadmap with concrete steps towards the commercialization of POLYNICES demonstrators 
• Organize the plans of the partners for exploitation of the project foreground knowledge at the technology, component and system level 
• Monitor IPR across the globe, assess the possible threats and 
• Protect and manage the IPR that will be generated in the project 
• Monitor and continuously update the implementation of the Data Management Plan (DMP) 
• Implement the open science policy via the deposition of generated data sets to open access repositories 
• Disseminate results to the scientific community, industry, stakeholders and general public 
• Set up the website, prepare a promotion video and streamline the rest of the D/C activities 
• Promote the interaction with other European and national projects