
This lecture includes an overall presentation of the course and an analysis of personnel costs
Learn how to build an EU project budget from total cost definition to partner allocation, translating person months into euros, with travel, depreciation, and indirect costs, plus negotiation and finalization.
Learn how co-funding works in EU Horizon 2020 projects, with a practical budget example showing 70% funding, 25% indirect costs, and how personnel costs influence total and real co-funding.
Learn to build a Horizon 2020 project budget by simulating partner costs, applying 70 percent funding and 25 percent indirect costs, and presenting data with transpose metrics.
In this short course we go through the main steps leading to the elaboration of the budget for an EU project proposal. We first analyse the typical cost items considered eligible by the European Commission, and then we show how to use these concepts to build up the proposal's budget. We also analyse the cost models for three different programmes, namely Horizon 2020, Erasmus+ and LIFE+. As a prerequisite for getting the maximum out of this course, the learner is supposed to have a general knowledge of how to set up a proposal and of the meaning of such terms as Consortium, Partner and Workpackage.