Gestion de projet : et si la Révolution venait de Bruxelles ?

Gestion de projet : et si la Révolution venait de Bruxelles ?

A quoi bon demander des fonds européens ? C’est complexe, chronophage, le porteur de projet est noyé dans les formulaires, pièces justificatives, contrôles, corrections financières avec autres délais qui dépassent l’entendement. C’est un air connu. Et pourtant, l’air de rien, depuis quelques années la Commission a introduit un changement radical dans sa méthode de financer les projet : les coûts simplifiés. Est-ce vraiment LE grand changement tant attendu ? D’abord, les coûts simplifiés c’est quoi : un paiement au forfait de certaines dépenses ou de l’ensemble de l’opération. Conséquence ? Fini le recueil et la transmission de factures, de feuilles
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ESIF Common Provisions Regulation: what’s new for 2020?

ESIF Common Provisions Regulation: what’s new for 2020?

The European Commission released in May its proposal for a new CPR applying to post-2020 financial perspectives. The current CPR (1303/2013) remains in place and the new CPR applies to the 2021-27 implementing period. However, it introduces some new elements that can be applied right now thanks to the OMNIBUS Regulation that was just fully approved.   So, let’s look at the main proposed new elements! The Regulation starts with an introduction quoting “over-complex and fragmented approach” of EU Funds – what a starting point – and then insists on key simplification measures that will need to be anticipated to
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First Responses to the Omnibus Regulation from Interreg Central Europe

First Responses to the Omnibus Regulation from Interreg Central Europe

The Omnibus Regulation, simplifying the existing EU financial rules, came out this July and the first echoes are already here: in August, Interreg Central Europe amended their Implementation manual by updating the calculation method of staff costs for staff working part-time in line with the Article 68a(2). More specifically, for individuals employed by the beneficiary to work part of their time on the project with a flexible number of hours per month, the reimbursement of staff costs shall be calculated on the basis of real worked hours in the project in the concerned month. Costs to be claimed in the project
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Simplifying ESF with Unit Costs and Lump Sums for Reimbursement of Expenditure

Simplifying ESF with Unit Costs and Lump Sums for Reimbursement of Expenditure

Increasing the scope of standard scales of unit costs and lump sums is essential for reducing administrative burdens and simplifying the use of the European Social Fund (ESF). Taking into account the disparities in cost levels of operations, the definition and amounts of unit costs and lump sums may differ across Member States. To account for Member State differences, the unit costs and lump sums for reimbursement to Member States are set on the basis of commonly agreed calculation methods and on the data submitted by Member States (or published by Eurostat). Relying on the methods submitted by Croatia, Cyprus, the
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Stronger Simplification

Stronger Simplification

11-12 Avril 2023, Lisbon Walking through all procedures, tools and costs to make concrete simplifications Join us to: understand the simplification process in full: what is it, what are success conditions to simplification (not only SCO) in terms of costs, delays and quality of interventions (programming, calls, selection, contracts, reporting, payment and monitoring) ; obtain key qualifications to implement simplification measures in your work place (procedures, processes and tools); tackle in particular SCO and to set-up an action plan to apply it in a secure & efficient way; take into account the most recent simplification proposals and good practices. Key
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Simplified Costs Options & Financial Instruments

Simplified Costs Options & Financial Instruments

13-14 December 2018, Hamburg Mixing Simplified Costs Options (SCO) & Financial instruments in an efficient way. Learn to combine Financial Instruments and SCOs efficiently (packages): set-up of calls and selection of beneficiaries; ensure constant implementation of Financial Instruments ; ensure full application of SCO and in particular unit costs and lump sums anticipate the closure of the interventions; manage high-risk issues like State Aid and selection list the success conditions of monitoring, verification, effective and efficient day-to day management. Register Training Agenda & fees
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GUIDANCE ON SCOs

GUIDANCE ON SCOs

Commission’s Guidance providing technical guidance on three kinds of Simplified Cost Options (SCOs) applicable to the European Structural and Investment Funds: Flat rate financing, unit costs, lump sums. It entails calculations, statistics, examples and best practices to encourage Member States to use Simplified Cost Options. READ MORE
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EU Funds Simplification Scoreboard

EU Funds Simplification Scoreboard

In September 2016 the European Commission issued a Simplification Scoreboard showing the gradual shift towards the simplification of EU Funds management in the 2014-2020 programming period.
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