On 11th of March, 2021 HERD project coordinator, vice rector of TSU in research, Nino Okribelashvili together with the Herd partner university representatives discussed HERD project quality assurance plan. HERD international partner - Université Côte d'Azur is responsible for the Project quality assurance. Representatives of Université Côte d'Azur led a Quality plan and have followed up meetings with partners. WP 3 – quality plan consists of two sub-packages and aims at developing quality assurance for the HERD project: 3.1. Project Quality & Monitoring Plan (PQMP) and Steering Committee (SC): has led by Université Côte d'Azur, the WP aims at drafting a PQMP and has collected SC for ensuring flexible implementation of project activities, reaching milestones and ensuring the outcomes/outputs are delivered on time and with high quality. 3.2 External Project Evaluation: An external project evaluation by experts in the field will be conducted. WP led by TSU will outsource the service to external agents.