EU CORE offers a wide range of services aimed at supporting beneficiaries in the daily management of their project grants. Targeted support can prove instrumental to ensure efficient management of broad partnerships, timely and accurate delivery of required project reports and deliverables to funding agencies, constant professional monitoring of financial/administrative requirements at any time during the project implementation phase.
The tailor-made project management services we offer include:
Overall management
• Assisting consortia in the grant preparation phase
• Managing consortium relations, including the drafting of the Consortium/Partnership Agreements
• Maintaining project records and documentation
• Assisting in the organization of project management meetings and related follow-ups
• Supporting the organization of national and international events (project meetings, workshops, conferences, training sessions)
Financial management
• Preparing annual budgets and periodic expenditure reports
• Reviewing, reconciling and consolidating international accounting records and field reports
• Assisting in establishing and reviewing partner institutions’ relevant internal control systems
• Reviewing annual financial reports and providing follow-up on any issues/problems identified
• Reviewing and monitoring project expenses
• Formulating replies to funding agencies’ audit reports
• Facilitating external audit procedures
Project monitoring, reporting and quality assurance
• Developing and implementing internal and external quality control instruments
• Working with project managers to ensure that all project deadlines are met
• Developing specialized project reporting formats
• Supporting the drafting of progress reports
Ethic issues management
• Ensuring appropriate ethic issues management in the context of research and innovation
• Performing reporting activities related to ethics issues
• Ensuring the respect of ethical rules and principles during the project implementation
Dissemination and exploitation
• Developing Project websites’ contents
• Preparing project information materials
• Organizing project dissemination events
• Ensuring adequate IPR management
• Preparing project exploitation plans
• Assisting in establishing spin-off companies, including the drawing-up the relevant business plans
