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EU Research & Innovation Project Management and Financial Reporting

Event date
October 9-10, 2014
Venue
Brussels
Country
Belgium
Short description

How to manage your EU funded research and innovation project in the most efficient way?

This course is tailored for project managers discussing the practicalities of technical and financial management issues of FP7/Horizon 2020 projects.

Description

This 2-day training course will introduce the first crucial steps for getting a Horizon 2020 project started on the right foot, provide practical tips to ensure a sound technical implementation of the project, and go into the issues of financial management and reporting.

 

                                                                        

Experience Europa Media's famous "learning-by-doing" approach – presentations in the morning, then practice your newly-gained knowledge during the workshops specifically designed for the particular topics:

 R&I Project Management and Technical Reporting

  • Grant Agreement negotiations – road to success and things that could go wrong.
  • Getting started – models on Consortium Agreement, advance payment, bank guarantees, and the kick-off meeting.
  • Efficient project management systems in practice – eligible and non-eligible costs, cost statements. Upgrading your system for FP7 and for Horizon 2020.
  • IPR issues in practice – how to protect you background and how to benefit from the foreground
  • Technical reporting – what to report and how?
  • Technical reviews – Prepare for the best and worst opinion of the EC and the reviewers.
  

Workshop: Technical Management

During the workshop participants discuss real case scenarios related to coordination, budget, dissemination, modifying the project, etc.

EU R&I Financial Management and Reporting

  • Financial rules of FP7 and Horizon 2020 projects – how to harmonise EU rules with you national taxation and internal accounting principles?
  • Eligible and non-eligible costs, cost statements – upgrading your financial admin system.
  • Different calculation methods of Personnel costs – employees and consultants
  • Allocation of Travel costs, Equipment, Other costs, and Overheads based on practical examples.
  • Subcontracting and third parties – how to avoid rejection of costs?
  • Pragmatic approaches in reporting – point-by-point assessment of the prepared financial reports. Format, content, overall principles, possible bottlenecks
  • Uploading of reports to the Participants portal – hints and tricks to control your partners’s spending.

Workshop: Financial Reporting

Participants prepare a full financial report for a virtual research project, a role-play exercise, based on "dummy" invoices, salary slips and time-sheets!

 
Geographical focus
  • Danube Macroregion
  • European Union (EU 27)
  • FP7
  • H2020
  • International; Other
  • WBC-INCO.NET
Scientifc field / Thematic focus
  • Agricultural Sciences
  • Cross-thematic/Interdisciplinary
  • Engineering and Technology
  • General
  • Humanities
  • Medical and Health Sciences
  • Natural Sciences
  • Social Sciences
Website
http://www.eutrainingsite.com/206
Event type
  • Horizon Europe / H2020 event
  • Training

Entry created by Rita Balazs on July 1, 2014
Modified on July 1, 2014