Horizon 2020
Training Workshop
27 November 2014
Current, Forthcoming, Both
Pillar I: Excellent Science
Pillar II: Industrial
Leadership
• European Research
• Leadership in enabling
PI
(EU),
UCT
(Team
Council (ERC) Funding:
and industrial
Frontier research by the Member)
technologies (LEITs): ICT,
best individual teams * • Starting
nanotechnologies,
materials, biotechnology,
• Consolidator
• Future and Emerging
manufacturing, space
Technologies:
• Advanced
Collaborative research to • EUR• 1.5
Access
risk finance:
m totoR2.5m
open new fields of
private
for 5 Leveraging
years
innovation
finance and venture
capital for research and
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie
innovation
actions (MSCA):
Opportunities for training
• Innovation in SMEs:
and career development
Fostering all forms of
innovation in all types of
• Research infrastructures
SMEs
(including einfrastructure): Ensuring
access to world-class
facilities
Pillar III: Societal
Challenges
• Health, demographic
change and wellbeing
• Food security and marine
research
• Energy
• Transport
• Climate action, resources
and raw materials
• Inclusive societies
• Secure societies
• Science with and for
society
• Spreading excellence and
widening participation
Call description
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Specific challenge
Scope
Expected impact – including budget range
Type of action
Funding instruments/actions
Pillar I: Excellent Science
Pillar II: Industrial
Leadership
Pillar III: Societal
Challenges
• Research and Innovation
• Co-ordination and Support Action
• ERA-Net Cofund (ERA-NET Cofund grants are open only to research funders)
• Innovation Actions
• Marie S Curie Action
• SME instrument
• Prizes, Public procurement, Grant identified beneficiary, Individual Expert Contracts
Funding instruments/actions
Pillar I: Excellent Science
Pillar II: Industrial
Leadership
Pillar III: Societal
Challenges
• Research and Innovation
Action primarily consisting of activities aiming to establish new knowledge and/or to explore the feasibility of
a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution. For this purpose they may include basic
and applied research, technology development and integration, testing and validation on a small-scale
prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment.
Projects may contain closely connected but limited demonstration or pilot activities aiming to show technical
feasibility in a near to operational environment.
Funding rate: 100%
• Co-ordination and Support Action
Action consisting primarily of accompanying measures such as standardisation, dissemination, awarenessraising and communication, networking, coordination or support services, policy dialogues and mutual
learning exercises and studies, including design studies for new infrastructure and may also include
complementary activities of strategic planning, networking and coordination between programmes in
different countries.
Funding rate: 100%
• Innovation Action
Action directly aiming at producing plans and arrangements or designs for new, altered or improved products,
processes or services. For this purpose they may include prototyping, testing, demonstrating, piloting, largescale product validation and market replication.
Funding rate: 70% for for-profit organisations and 100% for non-profit beneficiaries
Funding instruments/actions
Pillar I: Excellent Science
Pillar II: Industrial
Leadership
Pillar III: Societal
Challenges
Marie S Curie Action
Innovative Training Networks (ITN)
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Aims to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers, able
to face current and future challenges and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for
economic and social benefit.
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Partnerships take the form of collaborative European Training Networks (ETN), European Industrial
Doctorates (EID) or European Joint Doctorates (EJD).
Individual Fellowships (IF)
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Provide opportunities to acquire new knowledge and to work on research in a European context or
outside Europe.
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Fellowships are either European Fellowships or Global Fellowships. European Fellowships are held in EU
Member States or Associated Countries and are open to researchers currently within and outside
Europe. Global Fellowships are based on a secondment to a third country and a mandatory 12 month
return period to a European host.
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In Individual Fellowships (IF), the beneficiary shall be a participant established in an EU Member State
or Associated Country and employing the researcher during the project.
Funding instruments/actions
Pillar I: Excellent Science
Pillar II: Industrial
Leadership
Pillar III: Societal
Challenges
Marie S Curie Action cont…
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)
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Research and innovation staff exchanges, and sharing of knowledge and ideas from research to market
(and vice-versa) for the advancement of science and development of innovation.
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Exchanges can be for both early-stage and experienced researchers' levels and can also include
administrative, managerial and technical staff supporting the research and innovation activities.
Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)
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Co-funding new or existing regional, national, and international programmes to open up to, and provide
for, international, intersectoral and interdicisplinary research training, as well as transnational and crosssector mobility of researchers at all stages of their career.
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Participants submit multi-annual proposals for new or existing doctoral programmes or fellowship
programmes that may be run at regional, national or international level. The evaluation is organised in
two different panels: A) Doctoral programmes and B) Fellowship programmes.
Funding instruments/actions
Pillar I: Excellent Science
• Marie S Curie Action
Pillar II: Industrial
Leadership
Pillar III: Societal
Challenges
Eligibility
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The Member States of the European Union, including their overseas departments
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The Countries Associated to Horizon 2020: By 12 September 2014, Association Agreements have been
concluded and/or signed with the following countries: Iceland, Norway, Albania, Bosnia, Herzegovina,
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Israel, Moldova , (Switzerland).
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The following countries, except where this is explicitly excluded in the call text
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh,
Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi,
Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Congo
(Democratic People’s Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana,
Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Buissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica,
Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic Republic), Kosovo*, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao, Lebanon,
Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives,
Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco,
Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Panama,
Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia,
Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and
Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic,
Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda,
Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, , Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Minimum Participation
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At least three legal entities. Each of the three shall be established
in a different Member State or associated country. All three legal
entities shall be independent of each other. Except for
– ERC and SME- one legal entity in Member State or Associated
country
– CSA: one legal entity (need not be Member State or
Associated country)
– MSCA: IF (one EU member if EF, Two if GF), RISE (Three , if all
from same sector : 2 EU and one 3rd country)
– When mentioned in Work Programme
The Countries Associated to Horizon 2020: By 12 September 2014,
Association Agreements have been concluded and/or signed with
the following countries: Iceland, Norway, Albania, Bosnia,
Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Israel, Moldova, (Switzerland).
Assessment Criteria
Budget
Direct
Eligible Costs
Indirect
Costs
Personnel:(A) Direct personnel costs/€
A beneficiary can have one or more types of direct personnel costs. The various possible types of direct personnel costs are indicated below:
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actual personnel costs (salaries and social security contributions, as well as taxes and other costs included in the remuneration if they arise from
national law or the employment contract)
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unit personnel costs calculated according to the participant's usual accounting practices (average personnel costs)
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unit personnel costs for SME owners without salary or participants that are natural persons without salary
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additional remuneration (`bonus payments'; for non-profit organisations only and subject to specific eligibility conditions)
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personnel costs for providing access to research infrastructure (if applicable according to the call for proposals)
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costs of personnel seconded against payment (in-kind contributions against payment)
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Example: A researcher, who is employed by a legal entity outside the project, works in the laboratory of the participant. The legal entity is
reimbursed by the participant, and the participant charges these costs to the project.
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costs of personnel seconded free of charge (in-kind contributions free of charge). Example: A professor is working in a public university that
participates in the project. His salary is paid directly by the ministry, not by the university. The university charges the salary costs to the project
without reimbursing the ministry.
Indirect costs (F) or special unit costs (G) must not be included here. For details on the types of 'direct personnel costs', their calculation, and the
conditions for their eligibility please refer to Article 6.1 (general) and Article 6.2.A (specific) of the Annotated Model Grant Agreement.
There are additional conditions for in-kind contributions of personnel. For details see Article 11 (in-kind contributions against payment) and Articles 6.4
and 12 (in-kind contributions free of charge) of the Annotated Model Grant Agreement. In-kind contributions and the legal entities making them must be
described in the proposal (section 4.2 of the technical annex).
Time sheets if not working 100% on the project- approved monthly by line manager- A template is provided on the
Participant Portal.
100%: Sign one declaration per reporting period, to confirm that the people concerned worked exclusively for the
action during the whole reporting period. This declaration must be dated and countersigned for acceptance by the
person concerned. A template is provided on the Participant Portal.
(B) Other direct costs/€
Please enter other direct costs necessary to carry out the project.
The various possible types of other direct costs are indicated below:
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travel costs and related subsistence allowances
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costs of equipment, infrastructure, or other assets
(depreciation costs, costs of renting or leasing, in-kind
contributions against payment or free of charge; full purchase
costs are possible only if this option is specifically included in
the work programme/call for proposals to which you
respond)
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costs of other goods and services (e.g., direct costs for
consumables and supplies, publications, conferences,
patents, certificates on financial statements, certificates on
methodology, translations, in-kind contributions against
payment or free of charge)
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capitalised and operating costs of large research
infrastructures (only for entities that comply with the criteria,
see Article 6.2.D.4 of the Annotated Model Grant Agreement)
Deductible VAT (ineligible cost), indirect costs (F), or special unit
costs (G) must not be included here. For details on the types of
'other direct costs', their calculation, and the conditions for their
eligibility please refer to Article 6.1 (general) and Article 6.2.D
(specific) of the Annotated Model Grant Agreement.
C) Direct costs of subcontracting/€
Please enter the direct costs of subcontracting. Use one row for
each beneficiary. Include costs of linked third parties, if any, in the
beneficiary's budget.
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Subcontracting can be used to implement a limited part of
the project. Each subcontract and the tasks it covers must be
described in the proposal (section 4.2 of the technical annex).
Subcontracting costs include the actual price and taxes
(including non-deductible VAT) paid by the beneficiary. No
indirect costs are accepted for subcontracting, and the 25%
flat rate of indirect costs is not applied.
For details on 'direct costs of subcontracting' and the
conditions for their eligibility please refer to Article 6.1
(general), Article 6.2.B (specific), and Article 13 of the
Annotated Model Grant Agreement.
(D) Direct costs of providing financial support to third parties/€
Use this cost category only if the possibility is explicitly mentioned
in the work programme/call for proposals to which you respond.
Example: As part of your proposal, you plan a prize or a competitive
call for proposals for the development of a specific electronic
device. The prize or call is open to legal entities outside the project.
You select one or more
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successful applicants and award the prize or reimburse them
to cover their development costs for the device.
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This cost category (D) is limited to the actual amounts paid by
the beneficiary to third parties. No indirect costs are accepted
for financial support to third parties, and the 25% flat rate of
indirect costs is not applied.
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For details on the possibility to providing financial support to
third parties and the eligibility of these costs please refer to
Article 6.1 (general), Article 6.2.C (specific), and Article 15.
E) Costs of inkind contributions not used on the beneficiary's
premises/€
Please enter the costs for in-kind contributions that are made by
third parties against payment or free of charge and that are not
used on the beneficiary's premises. Use one row for each
beneficiary.
Include costs of linked third parties, if any, in the beneficiary's
budget.
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costs for personnel that is made available (seconded) against
payment or free of charge and working outside the
beneficiary's premises
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costs for equipment, infrastructure, or other assets that are
made available against payment or free of charge and used
outside the beneficiary's premises
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costs of other goods and services made available against
payment or free of charge and used outside the beneficiary's
premises
These costs (E) are already included in the 'direct personnel costs'
(A) and 'other direct costs' (B). They need to be declared specifically
in this column so that they can be subtracted from the sum of
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direct personnel costs (A) and direct other costs (B) before
the indirect costs (F) are calculated.
The maximum amount may not exceed EUR
60 000 for each third party, unless it is
necessary to achieve the objectives of the
action as described in the proposal
This may be done via
• a financial donation to natural persons
(e.g. allowance, scholarship, fellowship)
or legal persons (e.g. non-repayable
financial assistance to local NGOs),
• seed money to start-ups or microcredit,
or other forms.
Support in kind (e.g. transfer of material for
free) by the beneficiary to a third party is
not considered financial support.
Examples:
An innovation project in the area of
sustainable agriculture and forestry
includes financial support for end-users
(farmers) testing the technology developed
within the action.
One of the work packages in Annex 1
includes funding for awarding three
research scholarships in the field of the
action.
In this case, the beneficiaries’ activity
consists in providing financial support,
while it is the third parties (recipients) that
actually implement research and/or
innovation projects.)
Linked third parties may award financial
support to third parties under the same
conditions as the beneficiaries.
(F) Indirect costs/€ (=0.25 (A+B-E))
(G) Special unit costs covering direct & indirect costs/€
Indirect costs are covered by a 25% flat rate of the
participant's 'direct personnel costs' (A) and 'direct other
costs' (B) minus 'costs of in-kind contributions not used
on the beneficiary's premises' (E).
This cost category is used for special unit costs that are
authorised by a Commission decision. Use one row for
each beneficiary. Include costs of linked third parties, if
any, in the beneficiary's budget.
Use this cost category only if the possibility is explicitly
mentioned in the work programme/call for proposals to
which you respond.
The following types of costs may be included here:
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costs of additional energy efficiency measures
(Decision C(2013) 819626)
No indirect costs are accepted for
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subcontracting costs (C)
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costs of providing financial support to third parties
(D)
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unit or lump-sum costs which already include
indirect costs (G).
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For details on the types of 'indirect costs', their
calculation, and the conditions for their eligibility
please refer to Article 6.1 (general) and Article 6.2.E
(specific) of the Annotated Model Agreement
(H) Total estimated eligible costs/€ (=A+B+C+D+F+G)
(K) Requested grant/€
Calculated automatically based on the amounts you
entered.
Please enter the amount that you request for carrying
out the action. This amount can be equal to or lower
than the maximum grant (J).
Cost Forms
• Actual costs (i.e. costs which are real and not estimated or
budgeted) for:
– Example: EUR 62 500 actual yearly salary for senior researcher A
– Example: EUR 2000 actual price for a computer
• Unit costs (i.e. an amount per unit) for:
• direct personnel costs of SME owners/natural persons not receiving a salary
• direct personnel costs calculated by the beneficiaries in accordance with their
usual cost accounting practices (‘average personnel costs’)
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– Example: EUR 60,000 average salary for senior researchers
• Flat-rate costs (i.e. costs calculated by applying a percentage fixed
in advance to other types of eligible costs) for:
• indirect costs (25% flat-rate for indirect costs new in Horizon 2020)
• Lump sum costs (if agreed by EC)
Exceptions: ERC
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Budget categories of the ERC General MGA:
– direct personnel costs
– subcontracting costs
– other direct costs
– indirect costs
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Differences (compared to the General MGA):
– No ‘direct costs of providing financial support to third parties’
– No ‘specific categories of costs’
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Not relevant for UCT (Not the PI): The beneficiaries must however prove that the conditions
concerning the time-commitments of the PI for implementing the action have been complied
with.
– provide evidence that the PI dedicated the minimum time commitment
– provide evidence that the PI spent the minimum time commitment in a Member State
or associated country
Both must be proved, even if the salary of the PI is not covered by the grant (i.e. if the
salary is not part of the estimated budget).
Application Process
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html
UCT’s PIC: 999849229
UCT does not
allow
researchers to
be the coordinators of a
H2020 Project
Co-ordinator can give you
access rights to the online
proposal
Call and
topic
specific
Forms
• Part A - Administration Form: Example
– Edit online
• Part B - Proposal/Technical Component
– Complete offline and upload
Form B: RIA
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Excellence
– Objectives
– Relation to the work programme
– Concept and approach
– Ambition
Impact
– Expected impacts
– Measures to maximise impact (Dissemination and exploitation of results AND Communication
activities)
Implementation
– Work plan — Work packages, deliverables and milestones
– Management structure and procedures
– Consortium as a whole
– Resources to be committed
– Table 3.1a: Work package description etc Table 3.2b: Critical risks for implementation
– Table 3.4a: Summary of staff effort
– Table 3.4b: ‘Other direct cost’ items (travel, equipment, other goods and services, large research
infrastructure)
Section 4: Members of the consortium
– Participants (applicants)
– Third parties involved in the project (including use of third party resources)
Section 5: Ethics and Security
Form B: CSA + MSCA
ERC Form (Part B)
Part B1
• Extended Synopsis: 5 pages
• Curriculum Vitae: 2 pages
• Funding ID: no page limits
• Track Record: 2 pages
Part B2
• Scientific Proposal: 15 pages
Post award and Grant Management
Grant Agreement-RCIPs, CF and
Faculty
Budget transfers
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The estimated budget breakdown indicated in Proposal may be adjusted by
transfers of amounts between beneficiaries or between budget categories (or
both). This does not require an amendment according to Article 55, if the action is
implemented as described in the Proposal
– If the incurred eligible costs are lower than the estimated eligible costs, the difference can be
allocated to another beneficiary or another budget category. The amount reimbursed for the
other beneficiary (by application of its reimbursement rate) or for the other budget category
(to which the budget transfer is intended) may thus be higher than planned.
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The beneficiaries may not however:
– add costs relating to subcontracts not provided for in proposal, unless such additional
subcontracts are approved.
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The budget in the proposal is an estimation
– Therefore at the time of reporting, beneficiaries may declare costs that are different from the
estimated eligible costs in the budget.
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If the proposal used unit costs, transferring amounts declared as unit costs to
other categories or other beneficiaries is possible if the actual number of units
used (or produced) by the beneficiary is less than the number estimated in the
proposal. BUT the cost per unit cannot be changed.
Budget transfers cont…
What not?
• The grant agreement allows transfers of budget, not of tasks.
• A beneficiary cannot transfer budget to a form of costs that has not been foreseen
in the proposal.
Example:
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A beneficiary declares all its direct personnel costs as ‘actual costs’ in the estimated budget. However,
at the end of the first reporting period, the beneficiary declares its direct personnel costs as ‘unit costs
determined according to its usual cost accounting practices’ (average personnel costs). This is not
acceptable without an amendment of the GA to modify the form of direct personnel costs.
If the budget transfer is due to a significant change in the proposal, an
amendment to the Grant Agreement is needed. A significant change is a change
that affects the technical work (the ‘tasks’ of the action) as in the approved
proposal.
No new costs for new subcontracts — The transfer of budget intended to increase
the eligible costs for ‘subcontracting’ is considered to reflect a significant change
and normally requires an amendment .
Payments
• The following payments will be made to the
coordinator:
– one pre-financing payment;
– one or more interim payments, on the basis of
the request(s) for interim payment, and
Above payments should not exceed 90% of the
maximum grant amount
– one payment of the balance, on the basis of the
request for payment of the balance.
Final grant amount
The final grant amount will be calculated by the Commission/Agency
— at the end of the action (or in case of termination of the GA) —, in
order to determine the balance to be paid.
The final grant amount will depend on two types of criteria:
• work implementation criteria, i.e. was the work carried out as
described?
– This is a technical analysis by the Commission/Agency of the work
performed during the action, as compared with the activities set out in
the GA.
• financial criteria, including:
– the amount of eligible costs
– the reimbursement rates
– the maximum EU contribution.
General eligibility conditions for actual costs
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Actually incurred by the beneficiary (i.e. real costs)
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Incurred during the action duration (i.e. the generating event that triggers the costs must take
place during the duration of the action)
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Example: A conference for which costs are claimed must take place during the course of the action
Exception:
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Costs related to drafting and submitting the periodic report for the last reporting period and the final report (including
costs of certificates of financial statements required by the GA) are eligible — even if they are incurred after the action
duration.
Costs actually incurred should normally also be paid during the action duration.
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Exceptions
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In general, costs declared but not paid during the action duration (for instance because the beneficiary is waiting for the
payment of the balance) are eligible only if the debt (and invoice) exists, and the final cost is known.
Costs of services or equipment supplied to a beneficiary (or to its linked third party) may be invoiced and paid after the
action is completed, if the services or equipment were used by the beneficiary (or to its linked third party) during the
action duration.
If there is a check or an audit after the action ends, beneficiaries will need to prove (with supporting documents) that the
payments were actually made (except for depreciation costs).
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Travel costs for the kick-off meeting — If the first leg of the journey takes place before the starting
date of the action (e.g. the day before the kick-off meeting), the costs may be eligible if the meeting
is held during the action duration.
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Like any personnel costs, PhD costs (i.e. personnel costs of students) are eligible, provided they
fulfil the EC’s conditions.
Indirect costs
• Indirect costs do not need supporting evidence
because they are declared using a flat-rate ( new
in Horizon 2020).
– Costs must be calculated according to the applicable
accounting rules of the country in which the
beneficiary is established and according to the
beneficiary’s usual cost accounting practices.
Example: if a beneficiary always charges a particular
cost as an indirect cost, it must do so also for Horizon
2020 actions, and should not charge it as a direct cost.
What not?
The following costs cannot be declared as direct costs (non-exhaustive list):
• rental, lease or depreciation of buildings or plants not directly used for the action (e.g.
administrative buildings, headquarters)
• statutory audit and legal fees (not including costs of certificates required under the GA)
• office supplies and petty office equipment (purchased in bulk)
• other general services (cleaning, medical, library, services for publication, communication and
connection, postage, dues and subscriptions, clothing, literature, transport, catering and similar
items (i.e. items recorded by the beneficiary under the same account in the general ledger)
• management tasks and horizontal services (accounting and controlling, head office, corporate
communications, HR and training, internal audit, management, quality management, strategic
development, etc.);
• non-specific, non-activity-related or non-project-related costs (general): consumables,
maintenance, general facilities management, conferences, hosted activities, security fees,
insurance costs, general utilities, energy and water, and similar (i.e. items recorded by the
beneficiary under the same account in the general ledger).
These costs are reimbursed through the flat-rate for indirect costs
Reporting
Set out in the grant agreement. The action is
divided into the following ‘reporting
periods’:
• RP1: from month 1 to month [X]
• [- RP2: from month [X+1] to month [Y]
• RP3: from month [Y+1] to month [Z]
• [same for other RPs]
• RPN: from month [N+1]to [the last month
of the project].]
Interim and Final- online (participant portal)
– Financial statement (template)
– Technical report
– Certificate on the financial statements
(audit report) for final only
Currency for financial statements and
conversion into euro
• Financial statements must be drafted in euro.
• Beneficiaries [and linked third parties] with
accounting established in a currency other
than the euro must convert costs incurred in
another currency into euro at the average of
the daily exchange rates published in the C
series of the Official Journal of the European
Union, calculated over the corresponding
reporting period.
IP Issues to consider
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ARTICLE 24 — AGREEMENT ON BACKGROUND
ARTICLE 25 — ACCESS RIGHTS TO BACKGROUND
ARTICLE 26 — OWNERSHIP OF RESULTS
ARTICLE 27 — PROTECTION OF RESULTS —
VISIBILITY OF EU FUNDING
• ARTICLE 28— EXPLOITATION OF RESULTS
• ARTICLE 29 — DISSEMINATION OF RESULTS —
OPEN ACCESS — VISIBILITY OF EU FUNDING
• ARTICLE 30 — TRANSFER AND LICENSING OF
RESULTS
Other Issues to consider
• EC reserves the right: checks, evaluations, audits
• ARTICLE 32 —RECRUITMENT AND WORKING
CONDITIONS FOR RESEARCHERS
• ARTICLE 33 — GENDER EQUALITY
• ARTICLE 34 — ETHICS
• ARTICLE 35 —CONFLICT OF INTERESTS
• ARTICLE 36 —CONFIDENTIALITY
• ARTICLE 37 — SECURITY-RELATED OBLIGATIONS
• ARTICLE 38 —PROMOTING THE ACTION —
VISIBILITY OF EU FUNDING
Internal/DST Support
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If need be, apply for DST seed funding for consortium development.
– Download application form at: http://www.esastap.org.za/funding/fpseed.php
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Follow UCT’s internal process for research proposal sign off.
– All applications will be officially endorsed (if required e.g. commitment letters) by the
Research Contracts and Innovation Office (RCIPs) at UCT. UCT participants must therefore
ensure that they forward their applications to this office to allow sufficient time for the
approval and endorsement process.
– The deadline for submission to RCIPS is a minimum of FIVE working days prior to the Horizon
2020 call deadline.
– Prior to this, approval of the budget should be sought from the concerned faculty's finance
manager. In the case of the Faculty of Health Sciences, all applications need to be
accompanied by a cleared FM002 (also known as a "C1") form.
– If no endorsement/approval required: Please log your application with RCIPS within five days
after submission but still ensure that you have obtained faculty sign off on the budget (C1
form for FHS).
– Your RCIPS contact is Maghmuda Ockards: researchcontracts@uct.ac.za.
– Roger Wallace is UCT’s legal representative for H2020.
– You are also welcome to contact the Research Office (Ms Renee Le Roux:
renee.leroux@uct.ac.za; tel: 021 650 2431) should you require any advice on the researchrelated components of your application.