Staff costs

Staff costs must be related to the project activities and the responsibilities of the staff member concerned.

Definition of a staff member in a project:
– a person employed by any of the partner organizations and have a task in the project activities.

Staff costs may be reimbursed based on:

• unit costs, applicable for projects approved with this method (regular call nr 7) You can read more about the Unit costs here. 

OR

• real costs, applicable for projects approved with this method. You can read more about Real costs here.

This means that:

• projects applying for support in regular call nr 7 can choose which method they prefer, and if approved with the unit costs method those projects shall report their expenditure with the unit costs method. Note that if the method is chosen, it applies to all partners in the project.
• projects approved in regular call nr 1-6 still need to report their expenditure with the real costs method, full time or fixed percentage as this was the method applicable in those calls.