By October 21th mail, CREATOR Board asked Florence to send clarifications about our application :
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Clarifications BIOLIFE |
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Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:03:20 +0200 |
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Olsson Jörgen <[email protected]> |
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Dear lead participant of BIOLIFE!
We are sending you the list of clarifications. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me or your regional coordinator. Kindly
Jörgen Olsson
Assistant programme manager CREATOR
+46 90 10 71 83
+46 76 781 71 83
Dear Lead Participant of Bio Life
General information
During the 13th and 14th of October CREATOR Working Group had sub-project evaluation meeting in Asturias. In order to make a decision which sub project will be approved by the Steering Committe on the 18th of November, we kindly ask you to clarify some issues and provide some additional information on certain points. Please answer the questions below. Send your answers to the Lead Partner ( [email protected]) no later than 5th November
BIOLIFE
1. In the application form the needs are classified in five categories (food safety, food intake, nutrition, food delivery and eating and home services) but not all of these are tackled in the project description and in the argument for contribution to regional economic development. For example, the connection between health and nutrition related to regional economic development is missing. Please clarify how your categories are connected to regional economic development?
2. Consider the target groups: your proposal is focusing mainly on the target group 55+ when the main target CREATOR Target group is the older seniors ( 65+ or even older). Please clarify how your project can integrate both +55 and +65 or even older target group?
3. In some of the regions older seniors don’t buy the food on their own, it’s bought by the municipalities. Please explain why you haven’t chosen municipalities as a target group
4. Four press releases might be too many. Two could be a more realistic amount and then you can make more if you find the subject. Please update the application.
5. Are all the activities implemented in all regions? If yes, how to ensure that all regions have all the competences needed. If no, please specify what activities will be implemented in each region?
6. If all activities have to be implemented in each participating region please justify how some participants, which are universities, will be able to involve “business support organisations”?
7. Your subject is highly related to the sustainability and you could easily get a better explanation by thinking of both social and economical aspects. Specify the environmental sustainability.
Additional comments
- In the application you refer to a project tool. Please have a look at Basecamp. It’s used by the cooperating partners and you may actually be a part of that for free. The communication officer, Mariann Holmberg could give you an introduction. Please contact the communication officer of CREATOR for more information.
- Concerning the method of “shared cost model”, please contact your regional CREATOR coordinator (Lorraine)
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Florence et François will prepare answers and discuss them with D.Lorrette regional contact in Lorraine on tuesday November 2nd
About last point concerning shared cost model, it seems that CREATOR board wishes that we propose to share project management and communication costs between regions ( actually, the whole costs are on Lorraine lead partner). This will prevent the CREATOR Lorraine Partner to devote too much of its budget on our project.
Indeed, if we consider that there are 7 CREATOR regions with a budget of approximately € 3.5 million, this gives a ratio of 500 K € per region. Lorraine " AGRIA + INNO8 + + Project Management " = 215 K € which are nearly 40% of the budget allocated to Lorraine. We guess that Lorraine's Lorrette will prefer to distribute general costs on other regions to keep his budget for other project's participants.