RE: [mcfa-int] Grant procedures and financial regulations in FP 6

[gregor.giebel@DROPMErisoe.dk]

Thanks Dagmar, 

it's good to see that someone actually does something about it! I myself had a few EU projects as coordinator and project member, and it is quite true what they write about the complexity and lack of timeliness of reporting and financing. I had one project being finished in September 2003, and finally (which partly was our fault, we argued with the final distribution of cost from the EU) was paid off in December 2004. This was quite bad for the SMEs in our consortium, since for them, this is also a cash flow problem - we (large research labs) can more easily absorb this. 

I'll write a mail to KoWi and Ingeborg Grässle, stating pretty much the same thing.

Cheers for the text,
Gregor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dagmar M. Meyer [mailto:dmeyer@DROPMEmariecurie.org] 
> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 2:01 PM
> To: mcfa-int@DROPMEmariecurie.org; marie-curie-actions@DROPMEmariecurie.org
> Subject: [mcfa-int] Grant procedures and financial regulations in FP 6
> 
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> below I am forwarding you a message from KoWi's newsletter regarding a
> recent document on grant application procedures and the Financial
> Regulation in connection with FP6 that has been elaborated by the
> European Parliament's Committee on Budgets and Committee on Budget
> Control.
> 
> The 10 page document is quite interesting (although not really
> surprising).
> 
> Kind regards,
> Dagmar
> 
> __________________________________________________________
> 
> Message AiD10513/4 (c) KoWi
> 
> TYPE OF NEWS:     Publication
> 
> STATUS:           News (official)
> 
> TITLE:            Grant procedures and financial regulations in FP 6
> 
> ABSTRACT:         Connected with the reform of the Financial 
> Regulation
> the Members of European Parliament Dr. Ingeborg Graessle 
> (D/EPP) and Borut
> Pahor (SLO/PSE) have elaborated for the EP's Committee on Budgets and
> Committee on Budget Control a Working Document on grant application
> procedures and the Financial Regulation in connection with the Sixth
> Framework Programme for Research.
> 
> Both MEPs critize long time-to-contract periods, the 
> complicated internal
> procedures for payment of research grants to project consortia,
> exaggerated requirements for reporting and lack of sound document
> management provoking additional workload to all actors involved.
> 
> The report can be downloaded from KoWi's homepage:
> http://www.kowi.de/en/news/infos/default.htm
> 
> If you have made similar experiences you are welcome to 
> communicate them
> to KoWi. Thank you very much!
> 
> Contact:
> Dieter Dollase
> KoWi Brüssel
> Tel.: +32 2 5480213
> Email: dd@DROPMEkowi.de
> 
> 
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