The coordinator is responsible for the following tasks:
- Communicating between the Centre and FAS
- Implementating the legal, contractual, financial and administrative management of the Centre
- Organising and chairing of meetings in the Centre Management Committee
- Preparing and submitting issues to the Centre Management Board
- Controlling and refining the objectives of the Centre
- Overseeing the overall planning of Centre operations
- Assuring timely delivery and quality of Centre results
- Overseeing gender issues in the Centre
- Overseeing ethics questions in the Centre
- Overseeing intellectual property rights issues of the Centre
- Overseeing communication issues of the Centre
- Representing the Centre in general, and in particular vis-a-vis public and scientific communities
- Managing an archive/repository of Centre documentation
- Distributing meetings minutes, reports, evaluations and relevant publications within the Centre
- Arbitrating possible conflicts in the Centre
In carrying out these tasks professor Svend Erik Mathiassen is assisted by a Deputy Coordinator, Dr. Mats Djupsjöbacka.