Some ideas have been discussed for example as regards administrative and financial issues (ideas which have been shared through the finance helpdesk newsletter and website: http://www.finance-helpdesk.org/front/ShowArticle.aspx?ItemID=1440#FP8)

• Uniform interpretation of rules, enhanced user support, guidance, transparency and IT tools, use of prizes in selected areas
• Revision of acceptability criteria for average personnel costs
• More flexibility on obligation to open interest-bearing accounts
• Lump sum option for SME owner-managers
• Wider use of lump sums, flat rates, scale-of-unit costs
• Move towards result-based funding
• Pruning the rates/ methods/organisation combinations
• Role of programme committees in project selection
• Broader acceptance of usual accounting practices
• Extended eligibility of average personnel costs
• Some restriction to the variety of reimbursement rates and indirect cost methods
• Remove recovery of interest on pre-financing
• Applicability of the rules for participation to all intervention mechanisms

Note: these are just ideas at this stage.

Via our document section you have access to several national input papers shaping the discussion towards FP8 (note: a password is required, but registration is for free and can easily obtained via the website - see links in the top right corner of the website to sign up for an account: http://wbc-inco.net/users/register).