From	Phil Jones	Date	Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:55:06 +0100 (BST)
To	Niklaus Zimmermann
CC	Phil Jones, Emmanuel Muhr, Keith Briffa
Subject	Re: ECOCHANGE budget available to UEA - update
Nick, Thanks. Perhaps I'll need to contact Keith as to why some of the items are in the budget. I understand about the salary money. Cheers Phil > Dear Phil, Emmanuel, > > sorry for late reply, I undergo > evaluation these days. I add Emmanuel, so that he > can correct if my answers are wrong!!! > > - In general, you decide how much you spend where as long > as you have open tasks you are expected to contribute > (which is the case for UEA, you are still involved in A5). > > - This means that you spend the money by declaration on > the project netboard, and not by the original budget. > > - You cannot spend more salary, should there be no open > task left for you. > > - You can spend more salary months than expected from the > budget for a specific position, but you cannot spend > more total money than the budget is. > > - One major constraint is teaching activity, which can > only be spent in ECOCHANGE teaching activities (summer > school), but you did not list any here. > > best, > Nick > > PS: Dear Keith, I wish you all the best for > recovery! Hope to see you soon again. > > At 17:34 26.08.2009, Phil Jones wrote: > >> Nick, >> I've now found out some more information. >> >> In the Consumables category, we had £5070 and >> have left £4543. There is little, we are >> generally able to buy in this category. >> >> In a new category to us (called Recurrent >> costs) there is £7013, with nothing spent. >> >> In another new category to us (called >> Equipment under £5000) there is £5766, again with nothing spent. >> >> In another new category to us (called >> Exceptional Non Payments) there is £3844, again with nothing spent. >> >> Finally in travel there was £22923 of which >> we've spent (for meetings so far) £3445 so far, leaving £19477. >> >> These numbers were in Euros, but our accounts have them in UK pounds. >> They have been converted using the official EU >> rates eoros/pounds. This should be about >> 1.2 Euros equals one UK pound. >> >> We are talking about 36 thousand pounds! We >> are almost spent up on salaries. >> >> Cheers >> Phil >> >> Nick, >> Apologies if I've asked you this before, but I'm being asked about >> the ECOCHANGE budget that appears to be available to UEA. >> >> With the UEA budget there is money in categories that UEA has not >> had money in before (in other EU projects). Do you know what this money >> is supposed to be for? We understand the budget for personnel and also >> travel, but it is the other categories - which seem to relate to more >> travel >> and costs for capital equipment. >> >> Keith is still off work, but is recovering well from his operation. >> >> I'm off in the next few hours for 2 weeks away. >> >> Cheers >> Phil >> >> >> >> >>Prof. Phil Jones >>Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 >>School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 >>University of East Anglia >>Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk >>NR4 7TJ >>UK >>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Niklaus E. Zimmermann > Research Unit Head > Land Use Dynamics > Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, > Zuercherstrasse 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland > > phone: +41 (0)44-739-2337, fax: +41 (0)44-739-2215 > Secretary: +41 (0)44-739-2579, Sibylle.Hauser@wsl.ch > > email: niklaus.zimmermann@wsl.ch > URL: http://www.wsl.ch/staff/niklaus.zimmermann/ > ------------------------------------------------------- > >