Personnel Unit Costs
In case of an interest for using Personnel Unit Costs, when the workflow is initiated, you receive the task under My tasks. You will upload the document and fill in some data by clicking on the task:
You have to provide the document related to the certificate by clicking on Add document:
A pop-up window appears:
Click on the Choose files button or drag and drop the required document. Once done, the name of your document will appear in green under the Choose files button. You can only add one document at a time and the type has to be PDF. Then, click Upload. At any time, you can click Close to get back to the previous screen.
You have to provide some information related the Annual work units, Total personnel costs:
Project Coordinator can suggest use of Unit Cost while submitting a proposal with this type of cots enabled. In this case you will receive a notification and a task to agree or not on the Unit Costs:
After entering all the requested information, you can calculate the daily rate by clicking on the button Calculate:
After seeing the result rate and confirmation of document-reception, you are requested to provide final confirmation by clicking on Continue to final confirmation. You also have the possibility to click on Previous and go back to make further changes:
A pop-up window appears as a reminder of consequences that will follow:
The cost method chosen will be visible under the Special cost methods tab:
The request is then sent to the Central Validation Service, who will validate it. If they need further supporting evidence, they will send you a new request to provide the documents following the same process as the one described above.
Good to know
There is a Unit Costs Wizard available, which offers a possibility, where organisations can self-calculate on the Unit Costs of personnel for their project, before making a formal request.
You can start the self-calculation of your personnel costs by choosing the wizard from the left-side menu and clicking on Start wizard:
Knowing how much you would get, you can decide if you want to request it and go through the validation process.
The Wizard is accessible through the F&T Portal. After selecting Horizon Europe from the list of EU programs, in the simplified founding section, the wizard is launched after clicking on Personnel Unit Costs button.
The Wizard is anonymous and available to everybody. Even if you are logged in, the data is not registered or followed-up.
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