FP7 - Financial Reporting and Audits

+Project Management
How to manage your EU funded project
the most efficiently?

8-9 November 2012

Brussels, Belgium

 

 

 

Do you know how to...

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• avoid financial mismanagement?

• draft the CA in order to protect all partner’s interests?

• get prepared for a technical review?

• calculate your average personnel costs, SME owner flat rate or actual overhead?
   

Why participate at the Financial Reporting and Audits + Project Management course?

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This 2-day training course will introduce the first crucial steps for getting an FP7 project started on the right foot, provide practical tips to ensure a sound technical implementation of the project, and go into the issues of financial management and reporting.

 

 

 

1. Lecturers

The 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.

We have helped almost 1,000 project managers and coordinators over the years in understanding the legal, tehcnical and financial rules of FP7 and managing projects.

          See our training and project references 

2. Lectures and Workshops

Experience Europa Media's famous "learning-by-doing" approach – presentations in the morning, then practice your newly-gained knowledge during the workshops specifically designed for the particular topics:

FP7– Project Management and Technical Reporting

• Grant Agreement negotiations – 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 FP7.
• IPR issues in practice – how to protect you 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.

Workshop: Technical Management

During the workshop articipants discuss real case scenarios related to coordination, budget, dissemination, modifying the project, etc.

 

FP7– Financial Management and Reporting

• Financial rules for FP7 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 of 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?
• Pragmatic approaches in reporting – point-by-point assessment of the prepared financial reports. Format, content, overall principles, possible bottlenecks
• Uploading of reports to the Participants portal – hints and tricks to control your partners’s spending

Workshop: Financial Reporting

Participants prepare a full financial report for a virtual FP7 project, a role-play exercise, based on "dummy" invoices, salary slips and time-sheets!

 

 

 

 

Your Benefits!

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Whether an experienced Framework Programme manager or starting Grant Agreement negotiations for the first time, this FP7 Project Management and Audits course will help you strengthen your technical and financial project management skills.

• Get a full insight to FP7 financial issues
• Find out how to cope with challenges in project implementation
• Understand how to allocate costs and prepare your Form C
• Learn how to put together technical and financial reports

Experienced FP7 project coordinators and financial managers will moderate practical workshops, covering all aspects of FP7 project implementation.

Is this training right for me?

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The course targets all those who are competitively participating in FP7 projects and want to develop technical and financial project management skills.

 

Whether an experienced Framework Programme manager or starting Grant Agreement negotiations for the first time, this FP7 Management course will help you strengthen your management skills.

 

 

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