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Does anyone can suggest some sort of examples of coherent budgets in projects (CPs, CSAs, SMEs, and any others)?? Including an overall view with a logical distribution of activity costs, as well as if possible, a more detailed highlighting the different parties. Thank you

Hi everyone,

We are preparing our kick-off meeting for September. Do you have any advice to prepare this event the best way possible?

We have now a clear agenda from your experience what is the most important to not forgive?

Thanks a lot.

We’ve heard that there are likely to be reduced budgets for FP7 Calls for Proposals in 2009. This is apparently because of changes to the Commission’s internal budgetary procedures and it seems it could affect most of the thematic priority areas.
Some information we have heard is:

• NMP: Significantly reduced budget available for 2009. There may be a Call in late 2008, with the next Call in late 2009 for which the evaluation and selection will happen in 2010, with funding from the 2010 budget.
• Transport: It seems that there is practically no budget available for 2009.
• SMEs: There will be no Calls funded from 2009 money, but a Research for SMEs Call will be launched in July 2009, closing in December 2009, with evaluation and selection in 2010 and funding out of the 2010 budget.

Can anybody confirm this? Does anybody have information about other thematic prioity areas?

Does anybody know if proposal evaluation within this call has been finished? Evaluation summary reports should have been sent out in December 2007 by the commission! Our consortium is still waiting.

Regards

Neuromod

For the third ICT Call there will be remote evaluations with consensus meetings held in Brussels. Does anyone have experience as a remote evaluator in other programmes that could tell me their experience? Did you receive the application by post or email? Did you use the web to check facts? How long did it take? How did you write your comments, electronically or by post? These are the sort of things I am interested in.