Managing projects

The Executive Agency for Health and Consumers works with several hundred partners, and co-funds their actions that usually take the form of projects.

Project management is a one type of management approach that is especially useful when organisations are faced with new problems and need to develop novel ways to solve them.

The EAHC has developed some distinctive procedures that need to be applied by project partners who receive Community funding.

In this section, which the Agency plans to develop, you'll be able to find applicable legislation, financial rules, reporting tools, templates, and useful contacts within the EAHC to help you manage your projects or other actions, and comply with EAHC requirements.

Fact sheets for the preparation and management of projects

These fact sheets have been prepared by EAHC to inform and guide present and future project coordinators in their work. They cover several key issues from planning a project to its implementation and evaluation as well as the dissemination of the results.

• Fact sheet 1: The importance of project planning

  - How to prepare a successful project proposal - Nina Bergman, Swedish National Institute of Public Health

• Fact sheet 2: Key elements of a project plan
• Fact sheet 3: Planning of Content Work Packages
• Fact sheet 4: Planning of project coordination

  - Experience of a project coordinator- managing project's finances and administration - Peter Gelius, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg

• Fact sheet 5: Elaborating an evaluation plan
• Fact sheet 6: Elaborating a dissemination plan
• Fact sheet 7: Project Resources

  - Finding the right project partners - Dirk Meusel, Project Officer, Executive Agency for Health Consumers

• Fact sheet 8: Implementing a project
• Fact sheet 9: Performing a project evaluation

  - Assessing by measuring and proving what was achieved - Richard Braam, Addiction Research Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

• Fact sheet 10: Disseminating project results

  - Disseminating the project findings - Antoinette Martiat, Project Officer, Executive Agency for Health Consumers

 

Guides for applicants from the 2011 Call

These documents are the guides for applicants for project, conference, operating grant and joint action submission under the Calls for proposals 2011. These calls have been closed. However, these documents can be used and consulted for reference and information purposes.

• Guide for applicants - project
• Guide for applicants - conference
• Guide for applicants - operating grants
• Guide for applicants - joint action

Managing grants for action (projects)

Guidelines for Request of Payment
If you are a coordinator of a project funded by the EAHC, and you are preparing a request for payment (interim or final payment), you will find in these documents some guidance, which will facilitate and speed up the processing of your request for payment:

•  Guidelines for Request of Further Pre-financing Payment - Grant for an Action
•  Guidelines for Request of Balance Payment - Grant for an Action

Templates

Financial Guarantee
If a pre-financing financial guarantee is foreseen in the grant agreement you have signed with the Agency, you are requested to submit such a guarantee to the Agency before the pre-financing can be raised. The pre-financing payment shall be made after receipt and approval of the financial guarantee by the Agency. In this document you will find the EAHC template to be used:

•  EAHC template for financial guarantee - Grant for an Action

Time sheet
In order to comply with the requirements regarding ex-post controls of costs incurred in the framework of the project, coordinator should make sure that all of the costs are strictly recorded in the accounting records of all the beneficiaries. For staff time, they should be recorded in the following time sheet:

• EAHC template for time sheet - Grant for an Action

Managing procurement contracts

Template Letter for pre-financing guarantee (procurement)

Elements of Visual Identity

Any communication or publication by the beneficiaries collectively or any one of the beneficiaries individually about the action, including at a conference or seminar, shall indicate that the action has received funding from the Community. This should be done with a clear textual reference and the use of appropriate logos.

The contractors carrying out activities in the framework of the Better Training for Safer Food (BTSF) initiative should refer to the special BTSF visual guidelines.

Due to the launch of the new visual identity the guideline is currently under revision