Coordinating FP7 Research Projects

Paul Drath Training - 23 April 2010, CERN - COMPLET.

Le même cours aura lieu à Berne, le 15 juin 2010:

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Top-class training course on Framework Programme project management.

Objectifs

This workshop explains how EU collaborative research projects funded under the Framework Programme really work. It covers both the formal basis of the project from contracts to reporting and review, and the practicalities of coordinating a multi-partner, multi-country project to deliver the results promised in the proposal. The workshop is aimed at research managers and administrators coordinating EU collaborative research projects.

Content 

9:00 Registation and Coffee

9:30 ESTABLISHING THE RULES

What the EC contract and consortium agreement say about project management. Management roles and responsibilities, management processes, and key decisions.

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 PROJECT OPERATION

Project planning, deliverables and quality, internal reporting; meeting; project administration, the project handbook, web tools to support project management

12:30 Lunch

13:30 EU REPORTING

Periodic report, deliverables, work package progress, use of resources, project management

15:00 Coffee Break

15:15 EU REVIEW; PROBLEMS IN MANAGING EU RESEARCH PROJECTS
Preparing for the review, the agenda, rehearsal; who the reviewers are, the review process, what the EC wants from a review.

15:45 Problems: cooperation, commitment, quality, delivery, management overload

16.30 End of formal workshop
Speaker Dr. Paul Drath, director Single Image, eminent specialist of Framework Programmes
Fees  CHF 250.- (course, documentation, lunch, coffee, etc.)
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Number of participants limited

Day / Time 23  April 2010 / 8:45-16:30
Lieu CERN, route de Meyrin, 1211 Genève (just before border) Access

 

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