EU makes 7th Framework Programme easier to access
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Channel: Euractiv · 2011 · News & Politics
The EU Commission has annoncued three mesures which render the process of participation in the EU's Seventh framework program much easier.The Commission adopted three concrete measures which includes: - allowing more flexibility in how personnel costs are calculated so that EU research grant-holders can apply their usual accounting methods when requesting reimbursement for average personnel costs. - SME owners whose salaries are not formally registered in their accounts can now be reimbursed, through flat-rate payments, for their contribution to work on research projects. - a new steering group of senior officials from all the Commission departments and agencies involved will remove inconsistencies in the application of the rules on research funding.
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