Finance in Horizon 2020 - 2 day workshop (Belgium)

Workshop Date: 30-31 January 2018
Workshop Location: Brussels, Belgium
Workshop Organisers: Singleimage Limited
Horizon 2020 – the EU’s research and innovation funding programme – provides grants to universities, companies, research organisations and other bodies. This workshop will explain the funding rules for the programme, from budgets to eligible costs and from cash flow to audits: of which the first batch have been ordered by the Commission. This workshop can help you to be prepared!

The workshop is aimed at finance and administration staff involved in EU research projects, with or without a background in earlier EU programmes. It will consist of lectures and practical exercises, to be carried out in small groups with plenary feedback sessions. The workshop is designed to be interactive, and questions can be asked at any time. To facilitate this, attendance is limited to 24 participants. Please note that this workshop will not cover prizes, co-fund or risk finance. This workshop will be given in English.

Day 1: draft agenda – 30 January 2018

09:00 Registration and coffee
09:30 Grants based on eligible costs: H2020 budget, project types, funding principles, funding rates, project budgets and transfers, project receipts, general cost eligibility rules
11:00 Refreshment break
11:15 Personnel costs: employees, bonuses, freelancers, SME owner managers, average personnel costs, additional remuneration; time recording
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Calculating personnel claims: productive time – H2020’s three options; hourly rates based on last closed financial year or each month
15:00 Refreshment break
15:15 Other direct costs: travel and subsistence, depreciation, other goods and services, internal invoices; large research infrastructures, specific unit costs
16:30 End of day 1

Day 2: draft agenda – 31 January 2018

09:00 Coffee
09:30 Third parties: subcontracting, services, contributions in kind, linked third parties including affiliates, SME instrument
11:00 Refreshment break
11:15 From evaluation result to final payment: legal status, viability checks, guarantee fund, financial reporting and use of resources; EC payment timing and cash flow, financial certificates
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Marie Sklodowska-Curie: main types of project, eligibility rules, management and research costs, reporting
15:00 Refreshment break
15:15 EC audits: number, error rates and repayments; process and documents required; reading the audit report; common mistakes
16:00 End of workshop

Related link: cordis.europa.eu