It is the Beneficiary’s responsibility to ensure that any major and/or minor modification(s) comply with the terms as defined in the Agreement. The objective(s) of the initial Project must not be altered by budgetary changes.
Modification of the budget breakdown is only authorised between the budget line categories 6.1. Personnel costs, 6.2. Equipment, 6.3. Consumables, 6.4. Travel costs, 6.6. Subcontracting[1] and 6.7. Other costs, while respecting the eligibility criteria for these categories as defined in Section 6.
Annex 6 below details, by funding instrument, the terms and conditions for implementing a modification of the budget breakdown.
A modification notification or request to modify the budget breakdown must be submitted to the FNR using a form (*) available on the FNR website. https://archive.fnr.lu/download-center/ (general guidelines & policies/budget shifting, form “Budget Shift”).
In any case, any modification (major or minor) must be notified to the FNR through the form (*).
(*) The details and justification of the proposed budget changes should be provided in the form and the appropriate point of contact for the funding instrument with the FNR should be indicated.
Any request that is not duly justified will be considered inadmissible.
[1] With the exception that the amount budgeted for mentoring under “Junior track” is not transferable