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These workshops can also be delivered as in-house training at your institution, see below. For further details, please see the leaflet linked to the Workshop that you're interested in, or email us.

Workshops are highly interactive in style and numbers are limited.  

Workshops in Amsterdam

FP7 Agreements: Drafting and reviewing consortium agreements

Drafting or reviewing a consortium agreement means making a translation from project to agreement in terms of project and financial management. This workshop addresses the basic legal principles of the Grant Agreement and the consortium's freedom to make their own arrangements. We will demonstrate effictive methods of adjusting extisting consortium agreement models (IPCA and DESCA) to fit your FP7 project. 

Click here to download the Leaflet. Dates: Friday 17 September in Amsterdam.

Writing Competitive Proposals for FP7 - 2011
This workshop is all about making your proposal the best competitive proposal. The FP7 criteria are science, implementation and impact. Based on the experiences in the first FP7 Cooperation  calls this workshop will provide you with valuable input for writing the sections on Implementation and Impact and to increase your chances by explaining general strategies and providing you best practices. 

Click here to download the leaflet. Date: Friday 1st October 2010

Exploitation and Dissemination Strategies for EU projects
The exploitation strategy of project results is dependent upon, for example, the aim of your project; the type of results, and the industrial sector.
Different exploitation strategies and technology transfer routes will be examined.
We will focus on how to adapt the exploitation strategies in the DESCA and IPCA consortium agreements models to your project.  
We will also discuss different dissemination strategies. 

Click here to download the leaflet.  Date: in autumn 2010

Full Cost Calculation and Financial Management for FP7 projects
In the morning the focus is on full cost calculation.
Using our in-depth knowledge of Full Cost Calculation Models, we will examine the different approaches for attributing indirect costs to different activities, cost pools and cost drivers, time recording and productive hours.  
In the afternoon we will introduce the FP7 changes and guide you through the new rules and will address amongst others: payment modalities, reimbursement rates, guarantee fund, pre-financing and cost certificates and, of course, the cost reporting modalities.

Click here to download the leaflet. Date:  Friday 15th October and Friday 10th December 2010

ERC Starting Grant call 2011This workshop is all about making your ERC proposal the best competitive proposal. Competition for the ERC Starting Grant is fierce, and it is not enough to provide good science! Based on the experiences in the first ERC calls this workshop will provide you with valuable input for writing a competitive ERC Starting Grant proposal. We will focus on the description of the Principal Investigator and project proposal using practical cases. 

Click here to download the NEW leaflet. Date: Tuesday 21st September 2010

Marie Curie ITN Initial Training Networks (ITN's) are amongst the most popular schemes in the Marie Curie programme. An ITN is a network of organisations from different countries engaged in research training. The networks will offer a joint research training programme, responding to well identified training needs in defined scientific or technological areas, with appropriate references to interdisciplinary and newly emerging supra-disciplinary fields.

Click here to download the Leaflet and  click here to download the News Alert. Date: Monday 27 September 2010.

IN HOUSE TRAINING
All our workshops are also available as in-house events. These workshops can be given in English, Dutch or Norwegian.

For more detailed information on in-house workshops at your institution please email us or see the leaflet linked to the training that interests you.