hi,
Just wanted to ask whether you can recommend orgs, sites or sources where to locate PM experts for 7FP projects and other European programmes. We are in process of recruiting senior and junior professional staff.
Thank you,
I have 3 main questions:
-Would like to confirm what management tasks could be developed by a partner that is not the coordinator.
-what management tasks can be subcontracted, and finally,
-also, which of them should be allocated to MGT or OTHERS.
Thank you.
Hello, I have been coordinating an FP6 coordination action (CA). The EC funding was 100% with a flat rate of 20% for overheads. We developed the budget according to that and did the 2 first cost statements also with that rule. Then they informed us that we followed a wrong practice and we should actually (for the FC and AC partners) report the real overhead rate and then request from the EC only the 20%. What followed was a mess as we had to introduce adjustments to previous periods to correct this for the whole duration of the project.
Now I am a partner in an FP7 CA where the funding is 100% and the overheads a flat rate of 7%. the coordinator is assuring us that we should report only the 7% and not the real rate. Has something changed in FP7 in this regards? Does anyone have relevant experience or inforation?
Thank you
A Coordinator is worried to find himself in meetings of the General Assembly not reaching the 2/3 quorum of members (DESCA 6.2.3) and thus unable to deliberate validly, with all present parties incurring travel costs for nothing.
What about “a member that is neither present nor represented at the meeting becomes irrelevant for the quorum”?