Скачать или смотреть FP7 cost claim errors to avoid – 6: Personnel costs - Calculation of productive hours

The calculation of actual personnel costs requires the establishment of the productive hours for personnel. Productive hours should include all the time that the employee is available to undertake activities for the organisation (research and nonresearch activities). It should exclude weekends and holidays, but should include for instance teaching time, preparation of proposals, etc.
As a guide, 1680 hours per year is considered to be a benchmark for productive hours. If your productive hours deviate from this benchmark the difference has to be substantiated.
Please remember that productive hours may be very different from "billable" hours. The use of billable hours to calculate the hourly rates to be charged to EU research projects is not accepted by the Commission.

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