WP1 includes the management of the project's resources regarding the deployment and manipulation of human, financial, technological and natural resources. WP1 involves the following (1) supervision of project vision and strategy, (2) management of resources (3) execution of relevant decisions, (4) coordination of internal procedures and communication, (5) execution of administrative actions both internal and with Commission, (6) supervision of external activities, and (7) supervision of gender equality. The beginning of the project includes a training phase in which networking and mutual interaction of the project partners and methods reaching from management (WP1), over integument characterization (WP2), transfer of microstructures to hard surfaces by laser-processing (WP3) to scale-up to cm2 size (WP4) will be tested with the known and understood microstructures of lizard scales. This training phase ends with milestone M1.