News archive - Looking for Research Administrators from Croatia to participate in an international network
COST Targeted Network TN1302 „The voice of research administrators – building a network of administrative excellence (BESTPRAC)“ is a new COST initiative to advance the state of the art in excellent administration of transnational research projects through creating a network of research administrators.
Specifically, the network will establish connections between administrators of research projects (including judicial, administrative and financial staff) in order to overcome isolation, stimulate mobility and encourage professional development and progression, strengthening retention and recruitment of project administrators and emphasising the need and importance of the profession.
The aim of the project is to allow networking and exchanging financial, legal and administrative experiences and to share and develop best practices encouraging knowledge sharing, knowledge transfer and increased efficiency in project management European wide.
In such a framework the IVO PILAR Institute of Social Sciences is looking for the financial, legal and administration officers, from Croatia, that are administrating the EU funded projects and are interested to become a part of the BESTPRAC project.
Additional Information
BESTPRAC is targeted towards a group not yet well organised: the financial, legal and administration officers in institutions actually handling the research funding, preparing the financial reporting towards the funding body, reading and understanding the different financial rules and regulations of the different funding instruments and act accordingly, communicating and discussing with auditors, running the registration systems for manpower (time-sheets), negotiating the grant agreements with the funding agency, the working contracts with the employees, organising the overall reporting process and consortium events, and dealing with research strategy, technology transfer, dissemination, etc. For the purpose of this project the name „research administrator“ has been selected.
The focus of the project is the improvement of the administrative, financial and legal procedures of research projects carried out with European funding. Thus, there are going to be three working groups in the project:
- Working group 1 „Administration“ (WG1) will cover issues relating to the overall management of externally funded research project. Through meetings, training schools, and workplace exchange, the following key issues will be adressed: project establishing (tools, methods and procedures); cross-cultural barriers; overall reporting, timesheets and closing of projects; audit.
- Working group 2 „Finance“ (WG2) will cover issues relating to the financial aspects of preparing and running cross-European projects. Through meetings and summer schools, the following key issues will be adressed: accounting practices, VAT, overhead, exchange rates, audit.
- Working group 3 „Legal“ (WG3) will cover issues relating to the legal framework of the projects. Through meetings, training events and workshops, the following issues will be covered: a new framework programme standard contract and consortium agreement, IPR, and IPR in working with third parties, patenting and technology transfer, international legal frameworks.
The BESTPRAC Memorandum of Understanding contains further details on the network, such as detailed objectives, programme, organisation and timeplan.
The IVO PILAR Instituto of Social Sciences is looking for the financial, legal and administration officers, from Croatia, that are administrating the EU funded projects and are interested to become a part of the BESTPRAC project.
All interested, please write to Antun Plenkovic (antun.plenkovic@pilar.hr) for further information.
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Entry created by Desiree Pecarz on October 17, 2013
Modified on October 17, 2013
