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ECIL
Project & Financial
Management
Saturday 27th October 2012
Project Reporting Requirements
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Monthly updates
Progress Report – first six months
Interim Report – year one
Third six month Report – 18 months
Final Report – end of year two
Audit up to five years after the end of project
Monitoring Requirements
• Monthly update top three highlights for each
WP, and whether WP on schedule
• Activities – past and future
• Progress towards final results
• Minutes of meeting
• Lists of participants and statistics
• Database information
• Number of products
Partner Reporting Requirements
• Monthly and six monthly updates
• Financial reports
• Copies of referenced supporting documents
(with English explanation if not clear)
• 70% of pre-financing must be spent to before
next payment is made
• Exchange rate fixed at date of each prefinancing payment
Funding Agreement
• Annex 1 - Description of project, application &
contracting form
• Annex 1.2 - Actions to be carried out year one
• Annex 2 - Overall project budget
• Annex 3 - Administrative & Financial Guide
• Annex 4 – list of Partners & budgets
Agreement Amendments
• Notify National Agency before making any
amendments
• Latest amendment notification two months
before project end date.
Partner Agreements
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Standard model provided by National Agency
Partner’s budgets
Reporting requirements
Reporting deadlines
Monitoring Requirements - Finance
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Identify and record sources of match funding
Travel and subsistence policies
Vat status
Details of any National Supports for project
No funding from any other European Fund
can be used
• Retain original documents for five years after
end of project
Budget
PROJECT NUMBER: UK/12/LLP-LdV/TOI-508
Costs
Eligible Budget
Staff Costs:
195,161.00 €
Travel and subsistence:
Equipment (up to 10% of [A+B]):
Subcontracting (up to 30% of [A+B]):
Other:
Total Heading B:
Total Direct costs [A+B]:
63,684.00 €
00.00 €
58,374.00 €
41,725.00 €
163,783.00 €
358,944.00 €
25,126.08 €
Indirect costs (up to 7% of [A+B]):
Total project expenditures:
384,070.08 €
Percentage of EU funding:
75.00%
Receipts
Eligible Budget
EU Grant Requested from LLP:
Partner's own funding:
Other sources of financing:
288,052.56 €
96,017.52 €
0.00 €
384,070.08 €
Total sources of financing:
Partner Budgets
Partner
Staff Costs Travel &
SubOther Costs
Subsistence contracting
Indirect
Costs
Beth Johnson
Foundation
58,863.00
10,732.00
15,775.00
5,625.00
6,369.44
Associations
Generations
6,687.00
10,682.00
12,199.00
25,375.00
3,846.00
Hogskolan for
51,484.00
Larande och
Kommunication
I Jkpg AB
20,470.00
6,000.00
525.00
5,493.00
Universidad de
Granada
51,877.00
10,578.00
14,875.00
5,045.00
5,766.00
Drustova za
tretje
zivljenjsko
obdobje
26,250.00
11,222.00
9,525.00
5,155.00
3,651.64
Budget Headings
Heading A : Staff
Travel & Subsistence
Equipment
Heading B: Operating Costs Total (A+B)= Direct Costs
Subcontracting
Other
Indirect Costs
Indirect Costs
Budget Changes
• Can change budgets between partners and
cost headings
• Virements into staff costs and into
operational costs above 10% require
Agreement Amendment
• All virements to be notified to National
Agency
• Indirect cost can not be changed
Staff Costs
• Actual cost
– Include statutory costs
– Exclude bonuses, incentives and profit sharing
– Not sub-contract staff
– Maximum rate for each country
• Actual daily salary multiplied by days on project
• Timesheets
• Copies of payslips, contracts and CV’s
Daily Rate
• Annual Salary +social security costs+ other
statutory costs (including pensions)
Divided by:
Working days in the year (after deducting
weekends, holidays and statutory days)
Timesheets
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Staff members name
Partner name
Staff category
Daily rate
Time worked
Work package number
Description of work
Signed by individual and Legal Representative
Sub-contracting
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Not Employees of any Partner
Below €12,500 invoice only
€12,500 - €25,000 three tenderers
€25,000 - €60,000 five tenderers
Above €60,000 national rules on procurement
Travel & Subsistence
• Based on Organisation’s policy
• Maximum rates in country visited
• Hotel invoices necessary to verify overnight
stay
• Travel tickets and boarding passes to be
retained as evidence of travel
• Subsistence relates to number of overnight
stays (not number of days)
Other Costs
• Not costs relating to administration of the
project (these are indirect costs)
• Only costs incurred by Partners (not subcontractors)
• Third party travel
Indirect Costs
• 7% of budget maximum
• Do not need to evidence
• Must have incurred a cost (rent, heat and
light, telephone, photocopying, printing etc)
Eligibility
• Costs must
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Occur within partner/ participating countries
Be directly connected to activities
Be incurred by funded partners
Be actual costs (unless policy to claim subsistence
rates)
Be substantiated
Be incurred during contract period
Represent value for money
VAT is only recoverable if the organisation can
demonstrate that it can not recover
Common Issues
• Costs under incorrect headings
• Interdepartmental costs (if services of other
departments are used)
– Must be Actual costs (must have had to pay for
the service)
– Must be invoiced
– Not commercial
– Entered under other costs
Immediate Requirements
• Copy of Travel and Subsistence Policy of the
Organisation (with key sections translated
into English)
– Expense rates for private car travel
– Round sum subsistence rates
• Confirmation of VAT status
• Details of any Match Funding providers
ADAM – Portal for LdV
• Advanced Data Archive & Management
System (Database)
• Marketing and dissemination tool for
Leonardo projects
• Complete ECIL profile within the first two
months of project
• View and upload news & upcoming events
www.adam-europe.eu
Contact Details
Project Manager
Louise Middleton: [email protected]
Finance Officer
Lisa Healings: [email protected]
Telephone: +441782 844036
www.leonardo.org.uk