Model Grant Agreement

1. Model Grant Agreement DG Research and Innovation

2. Horizon 2020 model Grant Agreement: Objectives

3. Horizon 2020 model Grant Agreement: Accommodating specificities

4. Horizon 2020 model Grant Agreement: A single document with all provisions General conditions Annex II Specific provisions Annexes III Core text Special clauses FP7

5. Grant Agreement Some novelties • Global architecture common with the other EU programmes; with all the possibilities offered by the new FR • Terminology: terms and meanings defined in the Financial Regulation except for those terms specific to H2020 • On-line explanations for each article of the grant ("annotated GA")

6. Electronic communication for the management of the Grant: • Electronic signature • Of the Grant Agreement • Of the Amendments • Financial Statements and Technical reports • Communication between the Commission and the beneficiaries • Through the Participant Portal • Electronic-only submission of reports

7. H2020 Grant Agreement

8. Horizon 2020 model Grant Agreement: Annexes to the grant

9. 1. Forms of costs

10. FP7 One project = One rate for research actions For all beneficiaries and all activities in the grant. Defined in the Work Programme: Up to 100 % of the eligible costsfor research actions; up to 70 % for innovation actions(exception for non-profit organisations – up to 100%). 2. Funding rate (*) Research and technological development includes scientific coordination. (**) For beneficiaries that are non-profitpublic bodies, secondary and higher education establishments, research organisations and SMEs (***) The reimbursement of indirect eligible costs, in the case of coordination and support actions, may reach a maximum 7% of the direct eligible costs, excluding the direct eligible costs for subcontracting and the costs of resources made available by third parties which are not used on the premises of the beneficiary. (****) Including research for the benefit of specific groups (in particular SMEs)

11. 20% ? 60% ? Real ? Simplified? 3. Single indirect cost rate FP7 Single Flat Rate: 25 %

12. An example 4. New funding model: what impact on the EU contribution? FP7 Majority of HES & ROs

13. CALCULATING PERSONNEL COSTS 5. Personnel Costs - I ACTUAL PERSONNEL COSTS Calculationmethoddefined in the model grant agreement UNIT COSTS Calculated by the beneficiaryaccording to itsusualaccounting practices (Average personnel cost) Fixed by Commission for SME owners and naturalpersonswithout a salary

14. Personnel costs • Acceptance of Additional remuneration for non-profit organisations of up to 8000 euros/year/person • Less requirements for time records • …and more in the Horizon 2020 Grant Agreement 5. Personnel Costs - II

15. Financial viability • Only to coordinators for projects ≥ €500 k 6. Controls and Audits • CFS: Only for final payments/per beneficiary/for actual costs and unit costs based on usual accounting practices ≥ €325 000 • Methodology on average personnel costs: Optional Certificates • Provisions inHorizon 2020 Regulation! • Commission's audits up to two years after payment of the balance • Audit strategy focused on risk and fraud prevention Ex-post audits Extrapolation • New Financial Regulation applies Guarantee Fund • Continuity with FP7

16. The commitment 7. Large Research Infrastructures - I Commission's statement at the Council "Competitiveness" meeting on 10/11 October 2012 "For large infrastructures, the Commission will, based on best practices, issue guidelines on how some indirect costs can be moved to direct costs, i.e. where those costs can be directly attributed to the project".

17. The deliverable 7. Large Research Infrastructures - II The guidelines have been issued • The guidelines are being adopted by Commission decision The MGA includesdefinitions and conditions • Research Infrastructure according to FP art. 2,f • 20M€ (large) • 75% (research as the core business) • Ex-ante positive assessment (legal certainty)

18. We keep 8. Intellectual Property Rights - I • Ownership • for the participant who generates results, • joint-ownership only in specific circumstances • Exploitation • General obligation to exploit • Dissemination • principle maintained;

19. Transfer and exclusive licences outside the Union/Associated Countries • the grant agreement may foresee right to object if a participant has received Union funding • Access rights • for implementation and for exploitation purposes (also for affiliated entities established in MS/AC) • Tailor-made provisions in the MGA for: • security-related activities, • ERC frontier research, • SME instrument, • mobility 9. Intellectual Property Rights - II

20. NEW 10. Intellectual Property Rights - III What is • Additional exploitation /dissemination obligations • (in the work programme) • Open access: • obligatory for scientific publications and, • to research data (in appropriate areas and when foreseen in the work programme) • Access rights: • for the Union under all parts of the programme and, • for MS under 'Secure societies', • Specific provision: • for pre-commercial public procurement and • for procurement of innovative solutions

21. Thank you very muchfor your attention! Find out more: www.ec.europa/research/horizon2020