Financial Rules of H2020 and HEU (5 days)

Financial Rules of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe (5 korte webinarer) – Nivå 2

Dette kurset kjøres kl 9-11 hver dag i 5 dager, og består av 5 deler a 90 + 30 minutter.

Kurset holdes på engelsk, og kursleder er Europa Media.

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Financial Rules of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe (5 short sessions) – Level 2

The course is delivered by Europa Media.

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1. Master of Finance: Essentials of the financial rules in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe (90 + 30 min) - Monday 10 May

• How to harmonise national accounting protocols with the H2020/ HEU Grant Agreement articles
• Budgeting and planning: Why it is the most crucial part?
• What is a cost reimbursement? What is lump sum financing?
• Actual costs and unit costs? Which one should I choose?
• What makes any cost eligible? How to make them eligible?
• Linking a cost to the project? What makes them direct costs?
• Can I report indirect costs? If not, why not?
  
  

2. Master of Finance: Personnel costs calculation in Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 (90 + 30 min) - Tuesday 11 May

• Who and when can be charged to the project?
• Actual or unit-based personnel costs calculation – so what?
• Identifying eligible salary costs
• Calculation routes – monthly or yearly?
• Productive hours – should I accept 1720?
• Freelancers and temporary employees
• Secondment – what is the added value?
• What makes a timesheet bulletproof?

 

3. Master of Finance: Third-parties, Subcontractors, and other direct costs in Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 (90 + 30 min) - Wednesday 12 May

• Third party articles – why, there are more than one?
• Resource needed or service outsourced?
• Subcontractors or Linked third parties?
• Which one should be foreseen? Which one would your office prefer?
• Travel costs – for employees and for other – is there a difference?
• Equipment and other assets – how to calculate your facility costs efficiently?
• Other goods and services – what’s in here?
• How about internal cost transfers and charges? Are they eligible?
• Funding rates, receipts, CFS rules and payments – learn them all!

 

4. Practice - Financial Reporting: Experience the power of learning by doing (90 + 30 min) - Thursday 20 May

The workshop exercise is designed to help you understand how the rules of the Grant Agreement work in real life. You’ll receive a full documentation of a virtual project, including timesheets, payrolls, invoices and bills, travel notes and asset expenses to experience:

• Personnel costs calculation for employees and consultants
• Which calculation gives higher eligible costs for the same salary?
• Subcontracting or other service – how to trick with them?
• Travel costs calculations, equipment and other costs – are they always direct costs?

5. Step-by-step guidance on filing your H2020/ HEU project’s claims on the EC portal (60 + 15 min) - Friday 21 May

• Real-time, step-by step guidance on how to fill in the Financial Statement
• How to report efforts?
• Should you respect the 15% reporting rules on other costs? – Why explain why not…
• Adjustments – detailed guide on what to do
• Harmonising financial reports with technical ones – consistency matters