How are the costs for the preparation, implementation and follow-up of the call covered?

No costs for activities related to the preparation, implementation and follow-up of the co-funded call are eligible. The consortium may however choose to use part of the Union contribution to support their activities as long as the corresponding costs are not declared as eligible and the Union contribution does not exceed 33% of partners' funding of trans-national projects and unit costs for additional activities. This means in practice that they have to replace any Union contribution that is used to support their activities with additional national contributions to the funding of trans-national projects. This has already been applied by all ERA-NET Plus actions under FP7. These arrangements should be reflected in the Consortium Agreement.

ERA-LEARN provides a template for an ERA-NET Cofund Consortium Agreement. In this model, examples are given on how to deal with certain aspects implementing Cofund-Actions. Download a template for an ERA-NET Cofund Consortium Agreement.

An overview on the financial aspects in ERA-NET Cofunds is given in:

• Overview presentation on general principles