FERBEV Project - Second Annual Report, PART II , Management Report

A brief description of the work carried out by each FERBEV participant during the reporting period is given in the following pages directly jointed to the major costs deployed. The text significantly overlaps with the annual progress reports. For each partner, the activity (Section 1.1) carried out by each FERBEV participant during the reporting period, was compared with the human resources time allocation (Section 1.4) and cost actually incurred (real costs), the suppliers needs, the travel costs, the purchase of materials and equipment, etc. getting a complete picture of major costs and associated costs (Section 1.2) at WP level by each contractor. As a general remark, it can be outlined that besides the resources devoted to the development of research products (i.e. deliverables, milestones achieved, reports on specific mitigation methodologies, etc.), with personnel major cost accounting about 44% of total costs, equipment amounted near to 20% of total costs. The main tools of the promoting activity have been the organization of the General Meetings with the participation of WPs Leaders and representatives. Daily communications were usually kept by e-mails, often through the Coordinator. During the second year some researchers and team's members spent some days to visit other SME and RTD partners. Personnel Personnel costs mainly included the cost of researchers and technicians. Some partners, as CNR-ISPA, recruited young researchers and/or technicians under temporary contracts to accomplish the planned activities. In addition, AC model costs partners spent some person months not included in the personnel costs. Consumables Different kinds of consumables were bought by partners. RTD performers usually under this cost voice spent budget to buy enzymes for molecular biology, sequencing reagents, instrument consumables, etc. SMEs partners bought very different consumables. Usually large part of cost voice of SME beverage producers included milk, cereals and other raw materials, necessary to realize beverages for experiments. Since some SMEs own laboratories, part of consumable costs was addressed to buy microbiological media, Petri plates, flasks, cylinders, pipettes, tips, microplates, loops, and so on. Equipment As planned, some partners purchased specific equipment to improve beverage hygienic conditions and to answer the needs of FERBEV research activities. In particular, in the first year PLASTCOM bought accessories to adapt the existing plant in order to produce Fermented Soy Beverage. Since SACCO bought the equipment necessary for carrying out the planned research activities in the first year of the FERBEV the project, its costs of the second year are represented by depreciation quotes of the equipment. AMALTEA completed the processing line for Matsony adding needed accessories whereas MPFE bought tools in order to adapt the existing pilot plant to beverage producers' requests. INTERMAK modernized the existing fermentation system in order to produce selected autochthonous starter obeying international food-hygiene standards for FERBEV project. AYGIN SUT changed single parts of the existing plant in order to improve Ayran production in accordance with EU hygiene standard. In the first year, PLASTCOM adapted the existing plant devoting these new parts only for FSB production for FERBEV project. Depreciation quote of these parts was accounted in the reporting period. Travels A project meeting in Warsaw (Poland) and another one in Prague (Czech Republic) were organised during the second year of the FERBEV project. All partners attended the third meeting, and most took part in the fourth meeting. Consequently, their travel costs were mainly used for these occasions. Under travel cost voice, accounting about 4% of total costs, costs related to visits of some partners to other partner plants, and participation to international congresses for disseminating research activity results are also included. Subcontracts Some partners presented Audit costs