Hugo BERGER

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ICT - PSP Grant Agreement February 17th
2009 Sofia
Hugo BERGER www.europroject.bg
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Community Financial Contribution

• Eligible costs
• Eligibility conditions include necessity,
  actually incurred during the duration of the
  project, recorded in the accounts
• Direct cost
• Personnel costs
• Be directly hired by the beneficiary, under sole
  technical supervision, be remunerated in
  accordance with normal practices
• Subcontracting costs
• To be awarded according to the best
  price-quality ratio under conditions of
  transparency and equal treatments
• Other specific direct costs
• Indirect costs

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Funding mechanisms

• Pilot type A and B
• 50 funding of eligible costs
• Direct cost - actual as recorded in accounts
• Indirect cost - flat rate of 30 of personnel
  cost
• Best Practice Networks
• 80 of direct cost
• No funding of indirect cost
• Thematic Networks
• Use of lump sums and flat-rates

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Thematic Networks - lump sum financing

• The Community financial contribution for thematic
  networks is calculated as follows

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Thematic Network - example

• 2 years thematic network involving a total of 15
  participants (including the coordinator)

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Thematic Network - special condition

• Thematics Networks are exempted from
• the submission of certificates on financial
  statements,
• the provisions in the grant agreement concerning
  eligible costs and their justification by
  accounting and other evidence,
• the declaration of receipts of the project.

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Pilot type A and B - Reporting and Payment
conditions

• Payment to the coordinator
• Bank account
• exclusively used for handling the budget funds
• Payment schedule
• Pre-financing - typically to cover 18 months
• Interim
• Final - payment of the balance
• Payment rules
• Payment upon approval of reports and deliverables
• The consortium has 60 days after the end of the
  reporting period to submit reports and the
  commission has 105 days to pay
• submission of certificates on financial
  statements (mandatory for requests equal to or
  superior to 325,000 EUR by beneficiary

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Where to get Information

• Documents available on http//ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
  e.g.
• Model grant agreement
• Financial guidelines
• Guidelines for legal and financial validation
• Communication guidelines
• Guidelines on certification
• Helpdesk info-ict_psp_at_ec.europa.eu

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