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How to embed the EMDESK login widget on your website

August 4, 2015 FAQ's 77543

To allow your users to login to EMDESK from your website directly, EMDESK offers a customisable login form you can place on your website. The code to add an EMDESK login to your website is a HTTPs-request with definable URL-encoded GET parameter attached to the URL placed in an iframe embedded 0n your website. Example: To use...

Adjusting Personnel Costs in the Project Budget

July 27, 2015 Budget Considerations 55037

The EC budget calculation is based on strict rules and EMDESK automatically creates the budget based on your input. This means that whenever you adjust any of several variables, the overall total of the requested EC contribution and/or the total budget may change. This is especially true for personnel costs. Making one small change to the...

Registering/Creating a project (Proposal or Project)

April 27, 2017 Get Started 51635

If you already have an account, simply log in and go to myEMDESK > Create new project. On the project creation page, please fill in the required information and click on Register the project now. The new project will be linked to your EMDESK account with Coordinator Rights by default. If you don’t have an account, you’ll need to register the project...

Budget vs. Actual Costs Controlling

February 21, 2017 Budget Considerations, Controlling 40443

At Implementation > Controlling > Budget, you can access the Budget Controller – an instrument to analyse the Budget vs. the Actual Costs. You can see and analyse the financial data (Budget and Actual Costs, Funding) for the project or each partner, also per activity area, cost category and sub-cost category, and for the periodic reporting periods or WPs. To see the financial data at the...

Reporting Costs: Direct and Indirect Costs

December 14, 2016 Reporting 40258

At Implementation > Reporting > Costs, you can continuously report and track Actual Costs for your project participant. Actual Costs are tracked with the intervals of the defined Periodic Reports. Only users with Coordinator Rights can access and report actual costs for Contractors other than the own Contractor. Users with Contractor Rights can view and report their Contractors actual costs only. To see the direct costs reported for your...

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Registering/Creating a project (Proposal or Project)

April 27, 2017 Get Started 51635

If you already have an account, simply log in and go to myEMDESK > Create new project. On the project creation page, please fill in the required information and click on Register the project now. The new project will be linked to your EMDESK account with Coordinator Rights by default. If you don’t have an account, you’ll need to register the project...

Creating a User Account

August 13, 2015 User Account / Preferences 9583

You can create a user account by registering your first project or by being invited to join an existing project on EMDESK using the instructions below. To find out how to invite another user to a project, please click here. I want to create a new project and a new user account You’ll be asked to create...

Inviting Someone to the Project (Create Users)

August 13, 2015 User Account / Preferences 18728

EMDESK projects are workspaces for collaborating with colleagues – so start by inviting them to work with you. First, if make sure you are in the correct project by going to myEMDESK and selecting the project you want to invite people to from the Projects dropdown menu. To invite people to the project, go to myEMDESK...

Change email address, username and password

June 8, 2015 User Account / Preferences 24341

Change email address To change your email address, login and go to myEMDESK > Account Settings > User Profile. Click on the pencil icon to the right of your old email address, then type in your new email address and click Confirm Email address. You will receive a confirmation email with a validation link at the new email you entered. Please...

About EMDESK and this help portal

June 3, 2015 Get Started 7205

EMDESK is a secure, state-of-the-art, web-based collaboration and project management application especially for (European) research projects. EMDESK offers a comprehensive set of tools for proposal development, grant preparation, project management and reporting. It was developed for FP7 collaboration projects and continues to support the main project types under Horizon 2020 (see supported project types). EMDESK provides...