This workshop is a cooperation of Yellow Research and Kwintessence and will take place in Amsterdam or can also be given as an in-house course at your institution.
Workshop
This workshop informs you about the managerial side of Marie Curie projects in particular. The specific nature of Marie Curie projects translates into specific management issues.
We will discuss project management for both Marie Curie individual actions as well as for host-driven actions.
Programme Outlines
We will provide you with the necessary information to successfully administer & manage Marie Curie projects. We will discuss the contractual, legal and financial principles of Marie Curie projects and how these are the same or different from the cooperation activities. A thorough understanding of these principles will help you understand what project officers from REA expect from you.
The Marie Curie Grant Agreement is the leading document for discussing the obligations with regard to reporting, financial administration and recovery of costs, recruitment and secondment of fellows, as well as any (progress) report to be submitted.
Where appropriate we will point out the legal aspects to be covered in a consortium agreement and/or the fellow agreement. We will provide you with a checklist for amending the DESCA consortium agreement.
We will dig into to the reporting requirements and guide you through the documents for Marie Curie reporting.
Outcome
Participants will obtain a thorough understanding of contractual, legal and financial issues related to the Marie Curie programme, and information and guidance with respect to the recruitment and secondment policies and to the reporting requirements.
A thorough understanding of Marie Curie managerial issues will facilitate project management and your interactions with the REA project officer.
Who should attend
This workshop will be of value for researchers and EU Liaison Officers, project managers, project administrators and legal officers, both experienced and non-experienced.
Methodology
The workshop will be in English, with no translation. Participants will be provided with solid background information. Moments of discussions are included in the programme to promote exchange of views between participants and trainers, as well as groupwork to ensure active participation.
Programme
9.15 – 9.30 Registration and Coffee
9.30 I. Contractual structure
Marie Curie Grant Agreement, Consortium Agreement and Fellow Agreement
II. Financial and budgetary aspects
Eligible and non-eligible costs, costing system of Marie Curie projects, payments schedule and audits
11.00 Coffee & tea Break
Budgeting of consortium events, distribution of payments, distribution of coordination costs
12.30 Lunch
III. Project assessment and monitoring
Tasks in reporting, reporting related to contractual and financial documents, the ‘why’ of reporting
IV. Recruitment and secondment procedures
eligible researchers, recruitment procedure and policies, publishing vacancies, researchers’ rights and obligations, career development plan
15.00 Coffee & tea BreakV. Legal aspects
IPR, use, access rights, publication rights, dissemination
16.00 Feedback on the day
16.30 End of course day
Trainers
Lotte Jaspers from Yellow Research has been advisor to the Dutch government with regard to the Rules for Participation for FP5 up to FP7 as well as the Dutch University Association (VSNU). She was a representative in the FP7 Model Grant Agreement Consultation Group on behalf of the Netherlands. Lotte has extensive experience in the legal and financial aspects of FP7 Grant Agreements.
Alie Kwint from Kwintessence has extensive knowledge about the Marie Curie actions, in particular about ITN-projects. She worked for over 6 years as National Contact Point for the Marie Curie Programme; she was expert to the Programme Committee and was invited as Independent Observer during the ITN-evaluations in 2007 and 2008. Since 2007, she works as a free lance Marie Curie consultant.
Date, time and location
Date(s): not scheduled, available as in-house event
Time: 9:15 – 16:30
Location: Yellow Research, Herengracht 495, 1017 BT, Amsterdam
Course Fee
The course fee is 425,00 euro fully inclusive and covers coffee & tea, lunch and course material.
Course fee for an in house course at your institution is 4.000 euro per day for one or two trainers, excluding travel, hotel and subsistence costs. We expect you to take care of the Xeroxing of the course materials, the lecture room, projector and catering.
Bookings
Click on the blue button ‘Book this course’ on the top of this page to book online or to download the booking form. For questions about this course, please contact Sarah Jones at jones[at]yellowresearch[dot]nl.