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ICT-2008 Best Practice for participants and consultants in FP projects
Best Practice for participants and consultants in FP projects
Participation in collaborative funded RTD project should be focused on achievement of the technical and business goals. However starting with FP5, continuing with FP6 and FP7 the Commission has devolved many decisions and controls to the consortia. In many cases some practices have developed that may cause serious problems.
Included are such things as:
* Using prepayments as a management tool
* Dictating as to what what man rates, overhead rates and travel costs that are acceptable
* Micro management of projects better suited to civil engineering than R&D
* Coordinators abusing or misrepresenting their role
* Partners being uncommitted to projects and in some cases competing with it
* Consultants not declaring conflicts of interest
This type of behaviour can especially impact newcomers and SMEs.
This session will describe and address such issues in more detail and suggest remedies.
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Managing ICT projects in FP7 – exchange of best practices
The success of ICT projects depends to a large extent on good management. The project management quality significantly impacts the overall performance – from the proposal phase to implementation and exploitation.
This session aims to exchange best practices in the management of ICT research projects in FP7, in order to achieve better project management. The contributions reflect experiences from the Integrated Projects NM2, TA2, and PII.
The target audience includes current and prospective coordinators of FP7 ICT projects interested in improving their project management performance.
The session is structured into three parts:
1. Consortium building and proposal writing
2. Management and reporting
3. Dissemination and exploitation
The discussion of best practices in each part will be kicked off with a short presentation by an experienced project manager. Session results will be disseminated and used as input for two TA2 seminars on best practices in project management.
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As member of the European Association of Research Managers & Administrators EARMA.org we are taking the lead and setting standards for the professional management of research within Europe and the European Research Area and we could have a relevant role in this network session.