Community Research and Development Information Service - CORDIS

Marie Curie COFUND project management

General advice
Contract negotiation
Project implementation

General advice

• Read carefully the grant agreement and all its annexes before starting to implement the project.
• Inform your partners and the fellows about their rights and duties as laid down in the grant agreement.
• Inform the Financial office in your organisation about the financial rules governing your grant agreement.
• Stay in regular contact with your Project Officer and inform him/her about any potential problems at an early stage.
• When preparing your reports follow carefully the COFUND Reporting Guidelines in order to avoid unexpected delays in the approval of your reports (due to missing documents, incorrect information, etc.)
• In case of any uncertainty contact your Mobility National Contact Point or your Project Officer.

Contract negotiation

• Model Grant Agreement
• Negotiation Forms (NEF)
• Unique Registration Facility

Project implementation

Your Marie Curie Grant Agreement is managed by the Research Executive Agency (REA). For more information on REA please visit the website.

Guide for Applicants

• The Guide for Applicants contains the essential information to guide you through the process of preparing and submitting a proposal, but also on how to implement your project. Work programmes and hence also the Guides for Applicants are revised each year, so make sure you refer to the guide for the call under which your project was funded. These documents are available from the Call pages.

Reporting & General Project Management

• Marie Curie Actions Financial Guidelines Part III: COFUND and IRSES
• Participant Portal
• Guide to Financial Issues relating to FP7 Indirect Actions
• IPR Helpdesk
• Amendment Guide for FP7 Grant Agreements
• The European Charter for Researchers & The Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers
• Contact persons for COFUND projects

Information on cofunded calls managed by grant holders

• Information on cofunded calls managed by COFUND grant holders is published under the Find a call service, on the basis of the information provided by the grant holders to the REA. The information is indicative only and prospective applicants should only use information from the web site of the organisation charged with the execution of each programme.

Dissemination

• Communicating Research
• Downloadable Marie Curie logo
• Downloadable European flag & Guidelines on its use