Project Management
The RPA Team includes a dedicated research project team with many years' experience and knowledge of the administrative and financial requirements of all major funding agencies.
| Enterprise Ireland | EPA | ERASMUS + Programme |
| EU COST Actions | EU Horizon Europe | EU ERC |
| Fáilte Ireland | HEA, PRTLI | Marine Institute |
| Interreg Atlantic Area | Interreg Europe Programme | Research Ireland |
| Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (RISE, ITN, Doctoral Networks (DN) etc.) | EaSI Programme | |
RPA *Dedicated - EU Project Coordination
*A trained and experienced administrator is assigned as a one-stop contact point/resource to an individual PI.
Dedicated administrative support is available to Principal Investigators who are Coordinators of, or partners on, EU projects. Supports may include project management, administrative, and financial support - packages may be customised according to available post award budget.
EU Coordinator support provides comprehensive project management, including elements such as financial reporting, communications, meeting planning (from kick-off to final meeting) and assistance and completion on all key project functionality (procurement, timesheet maintenance, staffing, monitoring of deliverables, event management, project dissemination, etc).
The dedicated support service is self-financing via direct funding, e.g. from coordinator or administration budgets in research projects including Horizon Europe; specific budget lines in approved project proposals, or from overheads recouped from research projects.
- General enquiries, first point of contact - DCU operations set-up and project liaison with DCU Departments (RS/Finance/HR)
- Liaise with EU Project Officer and consortium partners on all aspects of the project - finance, reports, deliverables, milestones
- Consortium legal agreements (Grant Agreement, Consortium Agreement) - support regarding legal matters that may arise
- Grant Amendments/Finance Reallocations - No Cost Extensions
- Prepare deliverable updates as agreed in Grant Agreement
- HR/Recruitment/Staffing Support including ESR's (and Garda vetting where required)
- Advice, planning, processing, and tracking of all project spend, ensuring eligibility of costs
- Cumulative financial reporting - EU Portal
- Co-ordinating audit certification (if applicable)
- Project cumulative periodic reports to EU: collating, formatting, editing, updates, and metrics
- Tracking project deliverables and uploading to the EU Portal
- Internal tracking of DCU based deliverables and milestones
- Project Event Support (workshops; research days; 'Training and Welcome weeks')
- Arranging all meetings (kick-off, consortium meetings, conference calls, focus group meetings, review meetings in Brussels, wrap-up meetings)
- Dissemination, Metrics
- Public advertising - maintain/update project websites and newsletters, liaison with DCU Communications Office
- All final wrap-up details for the project
RPA *Dedicated - EU Partner Level support
*A trained and experienced administrator is assigned as a one-stop contact point/resource to an individual PI.
- General enquiries, first point of contact - DCU operations set-up and project liaison with DCU Departments (RS/Finance/HR)
- Liaise with EU Project Officer and consortium partners on all aspects of the project - finance, reports, deliverables, milestones
- HR/Recruitment/Staffing Support including ESR's (and Garda vetting where required)
- Advice, planning, processing, and tracking of all project spend, ensuring eligibility of costs
- Project cumulative periodic reports to EU: collating, formatting, editing, updates, and metrics
- Project Event Support (workshops; research days; 'Training and Welcome weeks')
- Arranging all meetings (kick-off, consortium meetings, conference calls, focus group meetings, review meetings in Brussels, wrap-up meetings)
- Dissemination, Metrics
- Public advertising - maintain/update project websites and newsletters, liaison with DCU Communications Office
- All final wrap-up details for the project
What other benefits are there to RPA Support?
We can provide a range of bespoke packages and cater for additional items on individual research projects; Budget Build; Website build for research projects (Wordpress); Conference/event planning and support.
In addition, access to the RPA Purchasing Card is built in, which is an invaluable resource for non-standard research requirements.
Services available to: All with a dedicated support package in place.