GENIUS teleconf T1

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Points for discussion

Budget

• The project is formally co-funded by the participating institutions and the UE, so you have to assign to the proposal some FTEs from permanent personnel of your institutions; that is considered o-funding.
• The total FTEs assigned (permanent personnel and contracted personnel) should me sized to cover the intended tasks. We will have to carefully think on this.

Please discuss with your offices these points. It's not trivial how it is done.

On the other hand, when discussing the budget here we have noticed that having two contracts (1s+1j) for three years for 300,000€ may be over-optimistic (not only in the Netherlands case). Among other things, there is a part of this money retained by the institutions (overheads) and it includes all taxes, so the net amount for the contracted persons may be too low.

Please make the numbers at your institutions, but we may have to decide between several options (case by case or all together):

1. Keep the number of contracts and duration, but accept low salaries (i.e. predoc level)
2. Keep the number of contracts and duration, enlarge the budget to allow higher salaries but do not include 1-year contracts for additional partners
3. Keep the number of contracts but reduce the duration of the project (i.e. to 2.5 years) to allow higher salaries.
4. Other mixed solutions

Advice received

Minutes