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Ase, Agnetta, Gabriella, Cristina, could you please contribute to the application form ?

Then, may each of you fill her organization description (application form part 5.3 ) ?

Francois V11

Thank you Paula

Here are my answers... I'm not so sure that we have to be too precise about for example the fishing tool: we have to build it, if possible but we are not able at this time to describe it. This is what BIOLIFE project will help to develop !

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and here is the version 11 Téléchargement Applform_v11_fi

Paula version 10

Good morning to all,

Just few more comments and inputs!

Thank you Francois for your answers to my last comments.

If we know the can of tool (i.e. survey tool) them is good to specify it somewhere in the project, so that the evaluators know what we are referring to. Furthermore, if there are plans to implement it, in my opinion this should be considered as a good and quantifiable result of the project. You mentioned 5-6 companies in Lorraine?  We can also do the survey to some companies in Asturias. Please revise the "expected results" section.

Best regards

paula

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Francois version 9

A - a few answers to Paula's comments on:

• 2.6 aim "Develop processes model integration tools, methods and means"

Paula comment: What type of tools ? which partner is going to do that ?maybe we shoud be no so ambitious and put jus one think : eg : model integration tools "

My response:  A kind of survey tool==> we have already done it for 2 various EU projects.
eg a tool called InnoNet, allowing through 35 questions to show 2 things:

1. does the entrepreneur (and his company) WANTS ( innovation propension)  to innovate ( innovation propension)
2. CAN (innovation capabilities) he innovate (innovation capabilities)

This is a good way to introduce and to involve companies and entrepreneurs in an innovative approach
We have discuss this with AGRIA Florence and we think it should be interesting, especially when transferring to Business support organizations who are demanding such kind of tools.

But, because we are various organization as partners in the project, we have to consider that some tasks or subtasks will be adressed only by 2 or 3 partners : we guess that Ase and Päivi will not be intersted in such kind of companies experimentation. But in an other ways, they will spend much more time on others "technology" tasks that , for example, INNO8 will not adress

In summary, we can "easily" create such kind of tools and this should be a good deliverable for our regional authorities

• in same2.6 part, tasks in yellow

In my opinion, these are mainly tasks no objectives. I move some of them  to the « aims » part. I Think the rest should be removed.

I agree with you, I delete it

• you are asking also: How are we going to experiment the model ? within a company ?

Yes, if we have the above mentioned "innovation fishing  tool", we may experiment it on a few SMEs ( we intend 5 or 6 here, in Lorraine)

Version9

B New version: including last changes => Here you can download  application form Version9

Paula Version 8

Dear all

Please find attached few more comments and inputs I added to V7.

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Best regards

Paula

new application form version 7

Thank you Ase for your contribution!
- I propose that we prepare an abbreviation table to add in the final form

-Merging Ase modifications, Paula's and François, here is the version7.

Almost 99% of  modifications have been included. On a few, I have a different point of view.
May I suggest that we go on => we will be able to have a final agreement on final version, discussing on those 1% differences ?

As Florence ( she is still on holidays..) asked, are you OK to fill

• Sandor / Gabriella =>2.3 project contribution to regional economic development
•  Ase => part 2.11 Innovation
•  Päivi => part 2.9 Equal opportunities & environment sustainability
  
•  Eleonora => part 2.8 policies improvement and good policies

please use application form V7

Inputs (comments and suggestions) from Umeå University

Dear all

Please find some inputs and comments  in the document attached (aaplication form). I put them in blue, underlined color. This changes has been added to the version posted by Paula a few days ago. I have added comments, changes and suggestions in the document and I hope it will be easy to follow for you. The changes mainly concern to highlight our aspect  of the project and make them more visible to the reader.

Application: Download Applform_v5_umu

Please read and comment! 

Åse

Please find some inputs and comments  in the document attached (aaplication form). I put them in blue, underlined color. This changes has been added to the version posted by Paula a few days ago. I have added comments, changes and suggestions in the document and I hope it will be easy to follow for you. The changes mainly concern to highlight our aspect  of the project and make them more visible to the reader.

Application: Download Applform_v5_umu

Please read and comment! 

Åse

here is the excel sheet allowing us to compute the budget.

There are 2 EXCEL datasheets

1- file called "budget_yourname_V0" : it is the official datasheet you have to fill and send to program manager

It has 3 thumbnails

Please begin to fill the first thumbnail.
Then you have to fill the 2 other thumbnails................................... :

Because this is a tough job, we have prepared a 2nd datasheet called "BLF1" => this will help to fill those 2 thumbnails....

2- Here is the file  BLF1 that you can use to compute your budget.
this file is more complicated because it has a lot of thumbnails:

• summary : summarize the time table by tasks (Tn)
• overall project: detailed the time table by (Tn)  tasks and subtasks (Tn.m) => it give an overall view of the project
• S1detailed : detailed time table for semester 1
• S2detailed: detailed time table for semester 2
• S3detailde: detailed time table for semester 3
• S4detailed: detailed time table for semester 4
• overall project 24months: detailed on 24 months ( duration of our project) to prepare your budget computation
• Q1budget: detailed time table for semester 1 with budgeting by staff cost, travel &  accommodation, administration cost, external cost and equipment cost
• S2budget : detailed time table for semester 2 with budgeting by staff cost, travel&accommodation, administration cost, external cost and equipment cost
• S3budget : detailed time table for semester 3 with budgeting by staff cost, travel&accommodation, administration cost, external cost and equipment cost
• S4budget : detailed time table for semester 4 with budgeting by staff cost, travel&accommodation, administration cost, external cost and equipment cost

So begin to fill the 4 last thumbnails, estimating your expenses: number of staff days, number of kilometers, cost of trips,..... for each task you intend to work

for example:

a) in semester 1, task T1.7 =    Discussing (consortium) the issues and the requirements for BLf implementation
 with 2 sub tasks:      T1.7.1    Discussing the issues
                              T1.7.2    Preparing the Bio Life implementation: who should do what and how and where to find pertinent local datas

 

If you decide that sub task T1.7.1 will take 2 days and subtask T1.7.2 will take 0,5 days => T1.7 will take 2,5 days.
If you have to drive for discussing issues with a regional subpartner ==> you will spend 100 km and one lunch

1. if your daily staffing cost is 300 €,
2. if your km rate is 0,50€
3. if a typical lunch is 12€

=>  you will have following budget line:

  wich means 812 € to claim expenses

  b)  Then for the blue items  "preparing workshop" and "workshop3 Brescia", you should decided to attend the meeting => budget is now:

500 € for trip  and hotel accomodation plus 2 days of staffing cost ( 2 times 300 €) plus parking at the airport plus......

Now, try to complete each semester sheet like this........ and you will have a 1st approach of your budget

first budget approach

It is time now  to prepare the budget.

First thing to do is to calculate you daily staff cost for each people who will be involved in the project. Staffing cost should be our main budget, except for AGRIA which will support various external costs such as:

• Web design
• webtools
• Flyers and documentation
• External costs
• Metrics (accounting & certifcation)

The rules are:

1. below 20% of the overall budget for PM ( project management) ==> it means less than 100 K€ on a 500 K€ project !
2. administration costs should be below 25% of the staff costs: it is so difficult to compute these costs ( and to justify them) that I suggest to forget it !
3. budget share dedicated to ‘external expertise and services’ should stay below 50% of the total budget ==> Florence ( Agria) is the main concerned but each if us may "sub contract" with  services supplyer ?
4. and last, budget allocated to equipment should stay below 5 % of the total budget.... I'm not sure that we will be concerned here !

We have made a first approach:

• a partner, involved in all tasks, should spend about 100 days to the projects ==> that means 1 day/week during 2 years.But each of us will probably spend more time on dedicated subjects and/or workpackages than on communication or PM...... It means that some should spend 50 days, others 100 or 150 ( and more for Lead partner) ??

• After estimating this with the excel datasheet that I am going to send, you will have to estimate trip costs, which means kilometers with your car to meet various actors).
• I suggest that you spend 2% of your budget to the communication (the main budget will be engaged by the lead partner)
• For the meeting, I suggest that you estimate a 500€/trip ( plus staffing costs) ==> there are 3 mandatory meeting (3, 4 & 5) at least....

In a next note, I will release the excelsheets to have a homogeneous way to compute this inputs

Some inputs/comments from PRODINTEC

Dear all

Please find some inputs and PRODINTEC data in the document attached. I put them in blue color. There are just suggestions that of course can be changed or removed.Descargar Applform_v4_pq

We keep working!

Looking forward for your contributions, comments , suggestions....!

Best regards

paula

Best regards

paula