• 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..

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.

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