Dear All
For Information
Marcelo and I, further to an informal request to our PO, have “unofficially” received the P1 Review Report.
We expect to receive this officially soon - and perhaps some S&T Qs to address too.
The report seems very positive - so well done everybody.
There are 5 recommendations (pp 2-3). At this stage it is not specified whether we need to respond to them, or whether they are just recommendations for the remaining period 2 of the project.
I share the Review Report with you now for information. We will have this on our agenda for next Friday’s OMT meeting too, to discuss it in further detail, including Recommendations, etc.
Best regards
Shamim
Dear All
We have now received feedback from the EC.
The feedback on the financial reporting part is generally good (see snapshot below taken from the Review Report).
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We have 5 comments on the financial reporting, for Partners: UGENT, SIMPLE, NKUA, NTNU and TCD to address.
Note: Our PO could not attend the review, so these comments are most likely to have come from the EC legal and financial team rather than the expert reviewers Markus and Davinia.
@Katrien/Lieva, Filothei, Marianthi, Sofia and Carina/Jake:
Please can you provide your written feedback as soon as possible, preferably by Monday.
(Please check carefully what is written in the brackets by your comments too as these could be helpful when responding).
You may find parts of the report submitted, in particular the financial sections from page 41 (see attached) helpful to use as a basis in some cases.
If you think you need more time let me know.
Best regards
Shamim
From: FUENTES MATEOS Angel <Angel.FUENTES-MATEOS(a)ec.europa.eu>
Date: Friday, 7 June 2024 at 10:38
To: Shamim Patel <shamim.patel(a)lnu.se>
Cc: Marcelo Milrad <marcelo.milrad(a)lnu.se>
Subject: Exten.D.T.2 REPA
Dear Shamim,
Please see below the points that need your attention:
* Personnel costs claimed (checks on average personnel costs).
* Beneficiary 3-UGent.
First of all thank you for the explanation provided in the CORE report regarding deviation met in RP1 compared to GAP stage. Nevertheless, the average personnel costs used by this entity (EUR 10,502.49) in this RP1 compared to the one planned in Annex I (EUR 4,651.91) shows a deviation of 125.77%. Please justify this deviation (different profiles than foreseen? wrong estimation in the GA? Etc.). Could you please also let us know, since the overspending is quite high, how you intend, as far as possible, to remain inside your own budget defined by your entity for this project?
* Beneficiary 6-Simple.
First of all thank you for the explanation provided in the CORE report regarding deviation met in RP1 compared to GAP stage. Nevertheless, the average personnel costs used by this entity (EUR 4,145.22) in this RP1 compared to the one planned in Annex I (EUR 3,096.33) shows a deviation of 33.88%. Please justify this deviation (different profiles than foreseen? wrong estimation in the GA? Etc.). In top of this we also spotted that your entity is claiming personnel costs as SME owner unit costs while in annex 2 no such costs were initially planned by your entity. Could you please confirm that your personnel costs have to be claimed as SME owner unit costs and not as actual costs? Please clarify and confirm.
* Purchases costs claimed.
* Beneficiary 2-NKUA.
In the explanations provided in the UOR (Use Of Resources), we can read the following:
* Equipment.
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As such I would ask for the following additional details if you agrees:
“Could you please specify the date (dd/mm/yyyy) when these two laptops were bought as well as the price paid for each laptop.
For each laptop, please also specify the depreciation period charged (from dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy) as well as the depreciated amount per month charged.”
* Efforts claimed on REPA1.
The checks performed on efforts claimed on this REPA1 show as a summary the following results:
WP1
WP2
WP3
WP4
WP5
WP6
WP7
WP8
1
LNU
56,72%
27,50%
18,25%
42,75%
19,00%
13,38%
20,25%
25,00%
35,86%
2
NKUA
54,00%
23,67%
37,56%
40,21%
55,13%
42,17%
21,50%
10,40%
38,63%
3
UGent
28,00%
0,00%
20,80%
0,00%
10,00%
53,82%
0,67%
7,75%
23,85%
4
NTNU
100,00%
59,94%
33,88%
54,38%
39,38%
33,25%
49,17%
13,67%
46,24%
5
TCD
50,00%
25,00%
50,00%
25,00%
10,00%
100,00%
58,33%
50,00%
50,00%
6
Simple
0,00%
83,33%
0,00%
55,56%
Based on this I would like to request beneficiaries (4-NTNU and 5-TCD) to explain why the effort planned by them for (WP1 - 4-NTNU) and (WP6 – 5-TCD) already reach 100% of the effort planned for these two WPs, knowing that for WP1 the effort planned cover in theory a period of 36 months and for WP6 a period of 30 months. Please justify this deviation (different profiles than foreseen? wrong estimation in the GA? Etc.)
Many thanks and best regards,
Angel
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Dear All
Today is a holiday in Sweden (Swedish National Day) and tmrw is also a bridging/sandwich holiday at LNU.
If you would like any items on the agenda for next Friday’s OMT meeting please let me have them by lunchtime 12.00 CEST, Monday 10 June.
Best regards, Shamim
Dear All,
Attached please find the newsletter (May Issue), the final version. Please let me know if you spot any errors in it. Provided you don’t spot any, I will upload this on our site and circulate it through our social media site.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Best,
Sagun
Dear All,
Attached please find the draft newsletter (May Issue). Please, let me know if you have any comments and suggestions on it. We will release it tomorrow evening by uploading it on our site.
Best,
Sagun
Dear All
Attached you can find the draft minutes and WP updates from our OMT meeting last Friday.
Please check all Actions/To Dos that apply to you in the minutes and slides.
If you would like any additions or changes let me know by COB next Wednesday 5th June.
NB: The next OMT meeting is at 10.30-12.00 CEST on Friday 14th June.
Best regards
Shamim
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Project Manager | Exten.(D.T.)2 Project
Linnæus University
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Dear all,
We would like to give to the teachers who performed the school
interventions a certificate of participation in the ExtenDT2 project. Has
any of you done something similar so that we can use the same template? It
would be nice if all partners used the same template for this certificate.
Note that this is different from the credentials we will be giving to those
who enrolled and completed the PD courses in NKUA and UGent (for that we
will probably use Europass Digital Credential (EDCI)).
Best,
Marianthi
Marianthi Grizioti (PhD)
Post-doc researcher & software developer
*Educational Technology Lab (ETL) <http://etl.eds.uoa.gr/> *
*Department of Educational Studies*
*National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece*
Research Gate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marianthi_Grizioti>
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Hi Shamim,
We have 1 question and 1 request regarding the upcoming deliverables of WP5
We have to submit an updated version of Del 5.1 (v1 submitted on M6). In
the new document should we keep the text from v1 and extend it with new
chapters concerning the updates or should we write a new text and refer to
v1 in it?
There is one mistake in Del 5.3. It says that the first report is on M24
and the updated on M30. However in the grant agreement on the deliverables
table the update of Del5.3 is on M34 (see screenshot). This makes more
sense, since the 3rd year interventions will be in progress on M30. Can we
modify this?
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Best,
Marianthi
Marianthi Grizioti (PhD)
Post-doc researcher & software developer
*Educational Technology Lab (ETL) <http://etl.eds.uoa.gr/> *
*Department of Educational Studies*
*National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece*
Research Gate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marianthi_Grizioti>
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Dear All,
I hope you are keeping well.
As we are planning to bring out newsletter in May, could you send us any news items (each item of approximately 250 words) along with pictures(in case you have the latter one as well) you have in relation to the Exten.(D.T)2 project by the 17th of May? In this issue, besides other news, we will cover the recently organised face-to-face project meeting at the OU and the review meeting at UCL.
You can send any news related to the workshops that you have organised or organising, DT intervention that is being carried out, any project dissemination activities, such as publication of a paper or presentation at the academic or non-academic events etc. This newsletter will cover the activities happening between January and May 2024.
I am looking forward to receiving more news items from you.
Best,
Sagun
The June OMT meeting will be either on 7th June or 14th June depending on Marcelo’s availability.
Please keep both options in your diary.
We will confirm asap.
