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2014 Online submission of Sport applications
Pre- registration and e-Forms
Natasha Jovicic
Bruno Breviglieri
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Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
Overview of presentations
• EACEA Participant Portal
• Participant Identification Code (PIC)
• ECAS account creation
• Sport electronic online application form
• Compulsory annexes of the e-Forms:
– Detailed description
– Financial information
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Participant Portal
What is the EACEA participant portal?
• Unique entry point for the registration of organisations which want to apply for the following programs:
- Erasmus+
- Creative Europe
- Europe for Citizens
- EU Aid Volunteers
• Unique entry point for Experts applying for the call for expression of interest EACEA/2013 for experts
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Organisation registration in 2014 – Why?
• Organisations (and partners) MUST register to receive a Participant Identification Code (PIC of 9 digit numbers) before submitting a project proposal via the official e-Form
• e-Forms will be pre-filled with the organisation's data by inserting the PIC
• Beneficiaries will no longer need to send the organisation documents for each applications for each programmes – only uploaded once
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Organisation registration – How?
• Necessity to have or create a personal ECAS account to start the registration
• Registration will take approximately 5 to 10 minutes if all information are available !
• After the first registration and the creation of a PIC, documents related to the organisation can be uploaded.
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Organisation registration – When?
• Register now, do not wait to the last minute before the call publication (foreseen around mid March)
• Collect already now all the legal documents of your organisation and of all your partners !
• Validation of your submitted documents by the central Research helpdesk can take over 40 days
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Participant's Portal home page http://ec.europa.eu/education/participants/portal/desktop/en/organisations/register.html
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ECAS Account registration
• ECAS account creation is necessary to start the registration.
• An email confirmation is sent after the Sign Up.
• This step is not the organisation registration. It allows starting the process.
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If lost : go to Support page, read the FAQ
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In case of a technical question:
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EACEA-SPORT@ec.europa.eu
Organisation/Company – Search tool
• The Search tool allows to look if your organisation exists already in the database.
• If your organisation exists and has a PIC, no new one should be created.
• Please note that the database is common to other Commission services (example Research)
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Organisation/Company – Registration
• If your organisation does not exists, it can be created by chosing the "Register organisation" button.
• The botton will redirect to the unique registration facility.
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Welcome page Unique Registration Facility (URF)
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Organisation – legal address registration
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Organisation – contact data registration
• Contact data are the general contacts of an organisation, not the ones related to a particular project.
• Contact person will be contacted in case of questions related to organisation or before validation
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Selection of specific programme: Eramus+
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Registration of Programme specific information
• For each programme, different organisation types will be presented.
• After this last step, you will be redirected to the previous screen and you can click on "Finish your registration".
• An email with the PIC number will be send to the email mentioned in the contact address.
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Participant Portal – See My Organisations
• All organisations created with the ECAS account will be visible in the "My organisation" tab.
• In order to modify the organisation data or to upload official documents, click on Modify Organisations (MO)
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Organisation – modify data, add supporting documents
• Supporting documents related to the organisation can be uploaded (official registration documents, VAT documents, annual Balance sheets, etc)
• Check the call documentation to see which documents need to be uploaded.
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Sport eForms
Where? home page (EACEA website) https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/PPMT/
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When? available around 15/03/14
Subscribe to EACEA RSS feed : up to date with the latest news and documents published on a website, no browsing, info comes to you in real time !
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e-Form creation – select your call sport
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Insert your PIC & choose the applicant organisation and partners
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Verify if partnership is correct and create pre-filled application form
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What happens in case of selection?
Validation of the organisation
• If after the application and selection processes, project is awarded a grant, the beneficiary organisations will need to be validated.
• This validation is carried out by the validation team in the Research Executive Agency
• The validation consists in checking the registered data in relation to the official documents
• After the validation, a Legal Entity Appointed Representative is nominated. He will be the ONLY person allowed to change the organisation data in the Portal.
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Deadlines reminder
• Collaborative projects is 15 May 2014 at 12.00 p.m. (midday Brussels time)
• Not-for-profit European sport events 14 March 2014 and 15 May 2014 (midday Brussels time)
• Questions : eacea-sport@ec.europa.eu
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E-Form tutorial
1.Register
organisations
2.Select programmme,
funding & language
3.Select participating organisations
4.Create & save eForm
5.Complete the eForm
6.Validation & submission
The e-Form is available in EN, FR and DE but it may be completed in any EU official languages of the European Union (except some part, like resume) and must be understandable for partners
15 May 2014
NB: e-Form is an interactive PDF requiring Adobe reader software (minimum lowest version 9.1) free upgrade download is possible
Organisation and partners
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Select the Applicant Organisation
If there is only one organisation
participating in your application, click on
the Next step button to proceed In this
scenario, the organisation you added will
automatically be defined as the Applicant
Organisation.
If one or more participating organisations
When you add a second organisation, a
new selection menu automatically appears
above the partner list table. This is the
menu for choosing the Applicant
Organisation
Nb each participating organisation needs a PIC
Submission
• If all the details of the applicant and partners are correct, "click on the Create application e-Form button.
• If any details are
incorrect or missing click on the Previous step button to make the necessary changes.
Save the application e-Form Please do not change the file name, this will be your reference document
Attachments to e-Forms (most of them are mandatory)
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Annexes are part of the
application most of the
cases they are mandatory
(budget xls or detailed
description docs)
Maximum size: 5 Mb
e-Form Technical assistance EACEA Helpdesk Availability
Tel: +32 229 90705
Email:
eacea-helpdesk@ec.europa.eu
08:30- 17:30, Monday to Thursday
08:30 to 17:00, Fridays
Excluding public holidays and European Commission
holidays
All times are Brussels time
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Navigation panel, on the left-hand side of the screen
Navigation panel, on the left-hand side of the screen
If you encounter technical issues that are not addressed in this guide you may
contact the EACEA Helpdesk to request assistance. The contact details and
hours of operation are as follows:
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Compulsory Annexes of the e-Forms
Description of the project
Financial information
Viera Kerpanova
Ingrid Trauner
Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
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Detailed description of the project
Organisations and activities
• Aims and activities of organisations
• Previous sport projects
• Other EU grants
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Project characteristics and relevance
• Objectives
• Innovative and/or complementary aspects
• EU added value
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Quality of project design and implementation
• Project design
• Methodology
• Quality control
during project
implementation
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Quality of project team and cooperation arrangements
• Cooperation arrangements
• Project team
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Impact and dissemination
• Quality control of final outcomes
• Expected impact of project
• Dissemination
• Sustainability
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Financial workshop
Overview of the presentation
• Application: the estimated project budget
• Funding rules
• Principles applying to EU Grants
• Financial tips
• Contracting procedure
• Payment arrangements
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Application – Budget
Structure of the estimated project budget : 1) Estimated Expenditures:
- Staff costs - Travel and subsistence costs - Equipment costs - Consumables and supplies - Subcontracting costs - Duties, taxes and charges - Other costs
max. 7 % of the total direct costs
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- Direct costs
- Indirect costs
Application – Budget 2) Estimated Income: - distribution of the grant
amongst partners
- Own funding of the partners - Other sources of financing (third parties) - Income generated by the
project
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- Co-financing
- Grant requested from the EU
Application – Budget
Principles applying to EU Grants:
• No retroactivity
• Non-cumulative award
• No-profit principle
• Co-financing principle
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Application – Budget
Tips:
• coherence between: e-Form, detailed excel budget, Declaration of Honour
• allocating estimated costs in the right budget heading
• budget is justified in relation to the planned activities
• application is in line with the specific provisions of the relevant call for proposals
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Funding Rules
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Collaborative Partnerships
Not-for-profit European Sport
Events
Max. Grant 500 000 EUR 2 000 000 EUR
Co-financing
Max. 80 % Max. 80 %
Pre-financing
60 % of the grant awarded
60 % of the grant awarded
Duration 12/18/24/30/36
months up to 12 months
Type of contract
Grant Agreement Grant
Agreement / Decision
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What happens in the case of selection?
Financial Capacity Verification
• Does applicant have stable and sufficient sources of funding?
• Required: - Financial Capacity Form
- Annual accounts for the last 2 years
• Does not apply: - to public bodies
- to international organisations
and - in the case of a low value grant (grant request ≤60 000 EUR)
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Contracting Procedure
• Grant Decision or Grant Agreement
• Specific provisions in case of multi-beneficiary agreement (Collaborative Partnerships):
- all partners become beneficiaries of the agreement
- coordinating organisation signs
- co-beneficiaries sign a mandate
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The Grant Agreement / Grant Decision
• Special Conditions and
its Annexes:
- Description of the action
- General Conditions (legal, administrative and financial provisions)
- Approved estimated budget of the action
- Mandate(s) in case of multi-beneficiary agreement
- List of supporting documents e.g. Guidance notes
related to project reporting
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Payment Arrangements
In General
• Pre-financing payment
- Upon entry into force of the Grant Agreement/Decision
- In exceptional cases a bank guarantee is requested
• Payment of the balance
- Upon acceptance of the Final report and its compulsory annexes incl.
- a certificate on the financial statements and underlying the accounts:
Supporting documents for Grants ≤60 000 €
Audit certificate "Type I" for Grants >60 000 € and <750 000 €
Audit certificate "Type II" for Grants ≥750 000 €
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http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/index_en.php
EACEA-SPORT@ec.europa.eu
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