D. Financial aspects

D.1. Staffing

D.1.1 Academic staff time

Project Coordinator, 40 days x 150 ECU=

6000

Area Coordinators, 5 x 20 days x 150 ECU=

15000

A-partners, teaching staff 44 x 30 days x 150 ECU=

198000

B-partners, teaching staff 48 x 10 days x 150 ECU=

72000

C-partners, teaching staff 17 x 5 days x 150 ECU=

12750

Total

303750

303750
D.1.2 Project management and administrative staff time

Project Administrator, 1 year half-time

18000

Total staffing

321750

D.2 Other project costs

Travel, accommodation, subsistence (see B.1 and C.2)

Steering committee meetings 2 x 5 x 900=

9000

Area Committee meetings 5 x 6 x 900=

27000

Contact with other TNPs, representation at conferences 5 x 900=

4500

Attendance at the May conference (one attendant per partner) 110 x 900=

99000

Total

139500

139500

Technology (database and WWW software, see C.3)

1000

Production of materials (CD-rom, see B.1)

1000

General administration costs

0

Consultancy (Monitoring and Evaluation, see C.4)

2000

Dissemination, translation, printing (see C.3)

1500

Total

145000

D.3 Cost-effectiveness

For personnel costs, an average academic daily rate of 150 ECU is used, which is considerably lower than standard rates for research and management. Meetings and communication overheads are kept to a minimum and are supplemented and supported by Internet-based communication (e-mail, WWW).

D.4 Complementary funding

Total project cost (D1 + D2)

466750

Requested grant from SOCRATES

55000

Complementary funding and own resources

411750

The requested grant is sufficient to cover the estimated travel costs (apart from the conference), the remaining part of the 'other' project costs and only half of the administrative staff costs.

With respect to the personnel costs, the coordinator and partners are carrying their own academic staff costs. The coordinator will carry the other half of the administrative staff costs.

For the May conference, extra funding will be sought from a.o. the following sources: