Horizon 2020 and ERC Project Management and Financial Reporting (Belgium)

This 3-day course provides the essentials of managing effectively collaborative Horizon 2020 projects and ensuring a smooth implementation of ERC grants. Why participate in the course? Get practical insight into:
- Avoiding financial mismanagement in your Horizon 2020 and ERC projects;
- Drafting a sound consortium agreement and handling IPR issues;
- Putting together strong periodic and final reports;
- Getting prepared for technical reviews and EC audits.
Horizon 2020 and ERC Project Management and Financial Reporting

This 3-day training course will introduce the first crucial steps for getting a collaborative Horizon 2020 and an ERC project started on the right foot, provide practical tips to ensure sound technical implementation of your project, and go into the issues of financial management and reporting as well as EC audits.

1. Trainers are actual Project Managers and Coordinators
Our lecturers and workshop leaders are flesh-and-bone project managers and coordinators, whose day-to-day work is to make sure that their multiple projects are implemented according to EC Grant Agreement, problems are promptly tackled, and project partners adequately assisted in legal, technical and financial management issues.

Over the years we have helped almost 1 000 project managers and coordinators in understanding the legal, technical and financial rules of the Research Framework Programme and managing European projects.

2. Lectures and practical workshops on project management and financial reporting
Experience Europa Media's well-known 'learning-by-doing' approach – presentations in the morning, then use your newly acquired knowledge during the workshops specifically designed for the particular topics:

Project Management and Technical Reporting
- Grant Agreement Preparation (GAP) – 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 Horizon 2020
- Ensuring effective communication between the ERC PI & the HI
- IPR issues in practice – how to protect your 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

Technical Management Workshop: During the workshop participants discuss real case scenarios related to coordination, budget, dissemination, modifying the project, etc..

Financial Management and Reporting
- Financial rules of 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 for 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
- Uploading reports to the Participant Portal – hints and tricks to control your partners' spending
- ERC Financial Audits - Strategy, types of audits and detected errors

Financial Management and Reporting workshop: Participants prepare a full financial report for a virtual H2020 project - a role-play exercise, based on 'dummy' invoices, salary slips and timesheets.

Your Benefits
Whether you are an experienced FP manager or you are just about to start your very first Grant Agreement Preparation, this H2020 & ERC Project Management and Financial Reporting course will help you strengthen your technical and financial project management skills.

- Get full insight into Horizon 2020 and ERC financial issues
- Find out how to cope with challenges in project implementation
- Understand how to allocate costs and prepare your financial statement
- Learn how to put together technical and financial reports

Experienced project coordinators and financial managers will moderate practical workshops, covering all aspects of research project implementation.

Whether an experienced Framework Programme manager or starting Grant Agreement negotiations for the first time, this R&I Management course will help you strengthen your management skills.

For more information and registration visit: https://www.eutrainingsite.com/training-courses/207/horizon-2020-and-erc...

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