What is expected in section Implementation – Ph2?

ADVICE FOR IMPLEMENTATION SUB-SECTIONS IN TEMPLATE

TEAM

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** Describe your team and their achievements and experience in relation to the approach you will be taking.
** Describe the roles of the team within your project. What is the role of the company’s owner(s)? What are the main strengths and weaknesses of the team?
** If your project is to be implemented by a consortium, describe how the partners complement each other.

Evaluation criteria

Technical/business experience of the team including management capacity to lead a growing team Phase 1: If relevant, the proposal includes a plan to acquire missing competences.
Phase 2: If relevant, the proposal includes a plan to acquire missing competences, namely through partnerships and/or subcontracting*, and explains why and how they are selected.

Expectations

⇒ The industry experience of the management team has to be convincing.
⇒ Make sure to show that you have relevant experience in all fields: technology, marketing, staffing, fundraising etc.
⇒ When describing the company’s abilities, you can mention you will use the coaching that is provided to perform actions that are currently beyond the company’s capabilities.
⇒ Properly present your key people in the management structure.
⇒ Keep in mind that you will be required to provide further information on your company and its operational capacity in Section 4.

WORK PLAN – Phase 2

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** Describe the overall structure of the work plan.
** Explain the timing of the work packages and their components (include a Gant chart or similar).

** Present a detailed work description: List of work packages (table 3.a) A description of each WP (table 3.b)

Expectations

WP descriptions need to match with your (current) TRL 6 status and demonstrate TRL increase.
=> Does your WP structure consider your business development?
=> Give enough information at task level to fully understand what you are aiming to do.
⇒ Provide a realistic time frame.

=> Make sure the work plan describes how you fill the existing gaps you mentioned in the ‘market’ section and will overcome the barriers specified.
=> Make sure the information about subcontractors is also included in the relevant WP

Give full details.
⇒Base your account on the logical structure of the project and the stages in which it is to be carried out.
⇒Include details of the resources to be allocated to each work package. Resources assigned to work packages should be in line with their objectives and deliverables.
⇒The number of work packages should be proportionate to the scale and complexity of the project.
⇒You should give enough detail in each work package to justify the proposed resources and also quantified information so that progress can be monitored, including by the Commission.
⇒You are advised to include a distinct work package on ‘management’ and a distinct work package on ‘commercialisation (dissemination and exploitation)’ and communication activities.
⇒If your project is taking part in the Pilot on Open Research Data, you must include a ‘data management plan’ as a distinct deliverable within the first 6 months of the project. A template for such a plan is given in the guidelines on data management in the H2020 Online Manual.

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** List of major
deliverables (table 3.c) ** Include a list of milestones (table 3.d)

Expectations

⇒Deliverables and Milestones due date are measured in months from the project start.
⇒ Means of verification: show how you will confirm that the milestone has been agained. Refer to indicators if appropriate. For example: a first product that is ‘up and running’; software released and validated by a user group; certificate agained.

TYPE: Use one of the following codes:
R: Document, report (excluding project periodic or final report)
DEM: Demonstrator, pilot, prototype, plan designs
DEC: Websites, patents filing, press & media actions, videos, etc.
OTHER: Software, technical diagram, etc.
DISSEMINATION LEVEL: Use one of the following codes:
PU: Public, fully open, e.g. web
CO: Confidential, restricted under conditions set out in Model Grant Agreement
CI: Classified, information as referred to in Commission Decision 2001/844/EC.

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** What might go wrong? Include a table with critical risks identified and mitigating actions (table 3.e). Explain your approach to the proposed mitigation measures.

Evaluation criteria

A critical risk is a plausible event or issue that could have a high adverse impact on the ability of the project to achieve its objectives. Risk analysis – very important to take this section seriously. Show the reader you have given it a serious thought and that you analyzed all the risks and prepared for them. Also reflect the mitigation measures in your task action plan.

Examples

Description of riskWP(s)Proposed risk-mitigation measures
Associated to general matters
Complexity of remaining research activities, potentially impacting the overall work plan time schedule.WP…Even if the expertise involved are indisputably accustomed to the complexity of this type of challenging R&D activities, the company will be able to re-arrange the overall work plan, in order to accomplish the scheduled plan.
Stakeholders and Special Groups of Interest could not be enough engaged and consequently not aware enough on the innovativeness of the product.WP…

WP…

WP…
Ensure appropriated involvement measures both during the testing and evaluation program, and also during the dissemination stage.
Description of riskWP(s)Proposed risk-mitigation measures
Associated with the Sustainability
Production sustainability, standing by market demandWP…Although this case is strongly unlikely, the company needs to be ready to manage a potential unsustainability, and re-organization of the planned manufacturing plan, taking in account a potential involvement of outsourcing manufacturing.
Delayed/reduced market penetrationWP…‘s agreements aimed to provide adequate financial compensation. Focusing on selected pilot customers and key industrial partners in target areas. Development of a Financial Sustainability plan.

RESOURCES – Phase 2

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** What are the resources, equipment and facilities required for the project and how you will access them?
** Would you need additional resources for scaling-up your business? Please provide the following:
– a table showing number of person months required (table 3.f).
– a table showing ‘other direct costs’ (table 3.g) for participants where those costs exceed 15% of personnel costs

Evaluation criteria

⇒ Table 3.f is where you describe the staff work hours in the project.
⇒ Your required Person Months (PM) need to be aligned with the current FTE in the company.
⇒ Table 3.g is where you mention the devices and equipment you will purchase. Ensure you put in the depreciated costs for all capital items.
⇒ Explain explicitly all “other direct cost” and their need for the project.

WP1WP2WP3WP4WP5WP6
Person Months80151070105
Personnal Costs (€)400,00075,00050,000350,00050,00025,000
Travel Costs (€)10,0005,0003,0005,0005,0003,000
Equipments (€)40,000
Materials (€)150,000350,000
Other (€)100,00070,0002,000100,00020,0002,000
Direct Costs (€)300,00075,0005,000455,00025,0005,000
Indirect Costs (€)175,00037,50013,750201,25018,7507,500
Subtotal (€)875,000187,50068,7501,006,25093,75037,500
Subcontractor 1: (€)100,000
Subcontractor 2: (€)70,000
Total Budget (€)975,000257,50068,7501,006,25093,75037,500
Requested EC Contribution (70%) (€)682,500180,25048,125704,37565,62526,250
Costs (€)Justification
Travel40,00020,000 for the two pilots in WP3 (includes total 6 mont-long accomodation at €2,500/each and 5 week-long visits at €1,000/each);
€20,000 for WP2 and WP4 (estimated 20 visits to target markets/stakeholders at average approx. €1,000/each)
Equipment0According to …-country’s accounting practices equipment used R&D projects are put directly at cost and therefore no depreciation is required.
Other goods and services950,000€800,000 for materials & consumables of the prototype pilots in WP3:
-€600,000 for optimization and production of —
-€200,000 for —
€150,000 for services:
-€10,000 in WP1 for audit services;
-€30,000 for legal services in WP2 (Task 2.2);
-€50,000 for transport services in WP3;
-€50,000 for trade fair services in WP4 (2 fairs at €25,000/each);
-€10,000 for web-related services in WP4
Total990,000