What is a NOVA Network?
A NOVA Network is the basis of all activities run as NOVA Network Projects (NNP). Hereby it is guaranteed that all NOVA UN activities within the area of PhD and MSc level education are conducted in an environment of most possible Nordic cooperation.

• A NOVA Network shall consist of one member from each relevant NOVA member instiution
• The Network shall have a programme and a plan
• Each Network member shall have regular contact with the Local NOVA Team, and be responsible for: 1) Anchoring the activities in the home environment, 2) Information in the home invironment, 3) Recruiting of PhD and/or MSc students, 4) Checking national procedures
• The Network shall have a rotating leadership

What is a NOVA Project?
There are two main categories of NOVA projects:

• NOVA Network projects: run by NOVA networks, with rotating leadership, owned by the involved member universities, and conducted with NOVA financial support. A NOVA Network project can be 1) a plannning project, 2) a MSc related project or finally 3) a PhD course
• Administrative NOVA projects: run by NOVA staff, under the auspices of the NOVA Rector.

A proposal is only qualified for acceptance as a NOVA project if the following requirements have been met:

• it defines clear and measurable objectives;
• it contains an activity plan with milestones;
• it specifies a proposed time-frame and assigns individual responsibility for each milestone;
• it specifies a budget for the activity plan;
• it stipulates report periods in accordance with KUF requirements.

Project evaluation!
To ensure the progress of NOVA projects as well as their recognition and acceptance vis-à-vis the members involved, each project will need a set of clearly defined main objectives in addition to a carefully selected set of performance indicators for evaluating the respective projects partly in terms of the process utilized (process evaluation) and partly in terms of the stipulated objectives (performance evaluation).
Here you can get the guidelines for qualitative evaluation of NOVA projects >>>