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Understanding staff costs

4 Apr 2024 By
Joint secretariat

This information videos is for project partners who want to know more about staff costs and reporting them to Interreg Europe.

It discusses a few core concepts, such as:

1) The basics

  • What are staff costs and what do they cover? (0:47 - 1:46)
  • How to prove who is your staff? (1:47 - 2:07)
  • What costs can be claimed? (2:08 - 2:33)
  • What supporting documents are needed (2:34 - 3:03)

2) The fixed percentage

  • What is a task assignment letter (3:18 - 3:48)
  • When to sign the task assignment letter (3:49 - 4:17)
  • How to come up with a percentage for an employee (4:18 - 4:49)
  • How often the percentage changes (4:50 - 5:48)
  • What happens when the fixed percentage does not represent real costs (5:49 - 6:31)
  • Filling in timesheets (6:32 - 6:51)
  • Concrete examples (6:52 - 8:50)

3) How to report the costs in the Portal (8:57 - 9:15)

Task assignment letter template.docx

Template to report staff costs of the people working on Interreg Europe projects.