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What prevents a project to provide a DMP and not strictly follow with it until the end?

Please see Guidelines on FAIR Data Management in Horizon 2020 (http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/h...), section 4. ‘Research Data Management plans during the project life cycle’: A funded project must submit a first version of its DMP (as a deliverable) within the first 6 months of the project. The DMP needs to be updated over the course of the project whenever significant changes arise, such as (but not limited to): - new data

Any recommendations about Reliable Data Security Companies working side by side with the European Union regarding researches & projects?

If it is just safekeeping of actual data, any of the big IT companies will likely serve. In general there are (country specific) centers that are helpful or can serve as partners.Marcas de cal?ado, bolsas e vestuário na Spartoo

How to deal with RAW data that will be stored for many years (e.g. 20 years)?

One approach is to also archive the software to access the data. That said raw data should be in a well described and documented format in such a form that at the very least one can access by reprogramming a tool in the worst case. Thus it is absolutely important to have good metadata and standards which describe standards.

Do you think that a DMP should be part of the management WP as a separate task/deliverable, or it should go into the dissemination WP?

A DMP should be integrated into the WP (scientific or non-scientific) it fits best. Data management can be part of an already existing task or can form an own task, depending on the relevance of data management in your envisaged project.balerínky

How to include a data source that is not available in a physical file format, e.g. a web service providing real-time data streams. How to make such "data source" open access through openAIRE?

Depending on (i) where the data is coming from, (ii) ‘data intensity’.

During periodic reporting, who completes the financial statement of a linked 3rd party: The beneficiary or the linked 3rd party?

See AGA 4.0 p. 151: The linked third parties may declare their costs (in their financial statements; see Article 20.3), if the eligibility conditions set out in Article 6.3 are fulfilled (e.g. actually incurred by the linked third party, necessary for the action, incurred during the action duration, etc.). The costs must be recorded in the accounts of the linked third party. - Linked third parties may declare costs for all cost categories (as provided for in Article 5), including indirect costs (at the 25% flat rate).

For two-stage evaluation proposals, is the total budget specified in the first stage binding for the second stage detailed budget?

Yes. There should be no big deviations to the budget specified in the first stage. But you can make small corrections.

Is there any possibility to apply for 2nd stage when we haven’t applied for the 1st stage of a 2-stage project?

If you mean the second phase of the SME instrument: then yes. Otherwise: no.

Is it possible to include professionals persons (holding TVA) within the personnel budget of the project as in-house-consultants?

You find the rules concerning in-house-consultants in the AGA 4.0 p. 72: Direct personnel costs: Natural persons with direct contract (A.2)

Are costs made before the start of the project related to the organisation of the kick-of-meeting or website eligible?

No. The only costs eligible before project start are travel costs to the kick-of-meeting IF the travel itself took part within the project duration.

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