Events

Bluebell Research and Yellow Research work together to offer Workshops and training activities to help universities, research institutes and others make best use of the opportunities of the 7th Framework Programme.

Workshops Programme

Here is the current programme of events in London and Amsterdam:

Workshop Descriptions

Competitive Proposals

Good science is not enough! Hundreds of excellent projects are not selected. This workshop focuses on the things that make the difference between success and failure. Starting with an overview of how FP7 is organised and concentrate on key factors in project evaluation: best practice in project management, financial control, exploitation and dissemination. Further information ...

FP7 Agreements

This workshop will focus on the FP7 Agreements: the Rules of Participation, the Model Grant Agreement and Annex II and the two model Consortium Agreements (DESCA and IPCA). Further information ...

Full-cost Calculation

This workshop focusses on calculation of the full economic cost of an EU project. Topics to be discussed are e.g. eligible direct and indirect costs, examples of cost calcualtion systems, time-recording. Further information ...

Building and Managing a Successful Consortium

Building & Managing Consortia requires balancing individual interests versus mutual interests and how to translate this in robust management structures. We will dig into to importance of fitting exploitation routes. The primary focus is on EU projects, but the issues are common to all substantial research collaborations. Further information ...

FP7 Finances

The change to full-cost is not the only thing to have changed in FP7 that affects project costing, budgeting, reporting and audit. This Workshop is based around a detailed review of the complete financial life-cycle of an FP7 project from initial budget estimates through to audit. Further information ...

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How to Book a Place

Please download, complete and return a Booking Form.

Enquiries about availability of places and current bookings should be made to Course Bookings.

In-house Courses

All the above Workshops, together with a wide range of tailor-made training courses, are available as in-house training courses. For further information please contact us.

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