According to the national regulations the transfer of funds will occur in three steps: 1) 65% of the approved costs immediately at the issue of the Ministry decree (contract between the Ministry and the beneficiary); 2) 25% of the approved costs once the mid-term report (both scientific and administrative) has been approved; 3) 10% of the approved costs once the final report has been approved. No profit private bodies and private research bodies participating in the project consortium, in order to receive the financial contribution must send a scanned copy of the following documents to Mipaaf: statute and/or articles of incorporation, memorandum of association by the pre-proposal submission deadline. Eligible costs A) Personnel 1) Salaries – Only for non-permanent scientific staff of public institutions (including foreign visiting scientists, post docs, PhD students, fellowships and grants). Technical administrative staff can be included in the coordination. For no profit private institutions salaries of permanent and not permanent staff actually participating in the project activity can be funded. 2) Travel expenses – for permanent and not permanent staff. B) Consumables C) External activity costs – expenditures for activity carried out externally to the research applicant (Consultancy services, agreements, maintenance, repairs, material transportation when needed for the project implementation). D) Overheads – no more than 10% of the total amount of the above mentioned costs (A+B+C) E) Coordination - if an Italian institution is also playing the role of coordinator the eligible costs will be those indicated in the above mentioned National Decree. Additional forms. Once the project has been approved for funding, the Ministry will ask the Italian research units of the approved projects, to fill in the model C and submit it to the funding Body (Mipaaf) to apply for contribution. In case of a research unit acting as coordinator, also the general project description, including the activity of all partners and the financial sheet for coordination activity (model A project form) have to be presented to the funding body. The forms will be made available on the Ministry website at the following address: http://www.politicheagricole.it/RicercaSperimentazione/default These forms must be written in Italian.