ICIQ Procedures

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TRAVEL PROCEDURES

Check a PDF with this name on our Shared Folder -> users_area -> ICIQ FORMS

TRAVEL EXPENSES

You have to give your "Travel expense form" and tickets, bills etc. to Núria V. for her and your supervisor's approval within 10 days after the end of your trip.

If you need to book flights, train tickets or hotels, do it through Núria V. or at least check with her. There're limits (prices) and procedures that we MUST follow (screenshots for flights, no train tickets on first class, for example)

As from January 2017 there's a new procedure

Important, the new procedure does NOT apply to "short stays abroad", you need to ask Noèlia Flores what you need to do as every grant is different.

There're changes, most of them are in everyone's favour (less hassle!!!!)

There's no need for tickets to justify meal/food/drinks expenses anymore, but there're rules (see (2) below)

1) Flights, train tickets

All flights, long-distance, AVANT, AVE tiquets have to be bought with ICIQ'S card (Núria V.) online and get an invoice for them. We still need tickets, invoices, boarding passes and "stamps" on train tickets as before, but no need for tickets for travel expenses < 10€. New rule: for > 10€ bus and train tickets, that have to be bought at a station, we need to follow ICIQ’s new rule: you can buy the tickets yourselves but you have to ask for a receipt ("recibo", "rebut").

Buy travel/weekly transport passes whenever it's possible, if they're > 10€, keep the tickets AND a receipt.

2) So the rules:

- There's a set maximum amount of money that you can spend daily depending on countries (Spanish Ministry of Economy limits, not ICIQ's). We'll call it "daily allowance". You can see the amounts here File:PGRAL-001 Settlement of expenses ENG rev07 v2017.pdf

- That daily allowance goes towards meals/food/drinks and travel tickets < 10€

- If the congress / workshop etc includes meals you can't claim a daily allowance: If lunch is included, you can claim half daily allowance to cover your dinner, if both lunches and dinners are included, no daily allowance will be accepted, therefore you'll need to keep all your transport tickets to get them refunded.

- There's also a limit for hotels, that's why you need to check with Núria V.

The rest stays the same

Special attention (this isn't new!):

- We need invoices for hotels, flights and registrations with ICIQ's data: ICIQ – Fundacio Institut Catala d Investigacio Quimica Avda. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, SPAIN, VAT nr: ES - G 43619550

- If several of you go to the same congress, try to coordinate yourselves and book the same flights/hotels

- Try to travel on the same day that the event starts / ends. If your expenses are paid from MINECO funds you can travel the day before / after. If your funds come from other sources you need to prove that the cost of the flight is the same or cheaper than if you were travelling on the "accepted" dates. The expenses of hotels, meals etc. on the extra days are on you, ICIQ won't pay for them, no daily compensations either.

- If your trip includes extra days, you need screenshots of the different flight prices (use Skyscanner), the screenshots have to be made at the time of buying the tickets - Credit card receipts are NOT accepted as proof of expense , neither are handwritten receipts (taxis are an exception)

- You need to provide flight boarding passes, train tickets, certificates of attendance, congress programmes etc

- Train tickes that you print yourself have to bee stamped by RENFE, see example here

- NOT ACCEPTED EXPENSES:

a) taxis (unless 1. you can prove there's no public transport in that area or at the time you need transport, 2. you share the taxi and the total of the bill is cheaper that the sum of individual public transport tickets)

• • • • With the new procedure you can pay the taxi with the daily fixed amount, but only if it's really necessary and there's no other means of transport available.

b) airport parking fees (if there is no other way, then park in a "low-cost" parking lot like "Park&Fly" http://www.parkandflybcn.com/ "Aparca&Go" https://www.aparcandgo.com/en/ or "Llollo" http://www.llollo.com/llollo-landing/aeropuerto-barcelona.html?gclid=CMnUw8eDodICFQ8W0wodA4cD3w to give you some examples)

d) hotel room extra expenses (phone, laundry etc), lunches and dinners above the price limits on the lists (countries) at the end of the document in section 2) above

e) 1st class train fares("Preferente")

You should have a spreadsheet with all your expenses divided into categories: travel, accomodation, meals (you can use the one on Shared Folder -> user_area -> IMPGRAL-001-Settlement of expenses template)

- STAYS ABROAD: Ask Noèlia. If she gives no special instructions, keep all your transport tickets. When you go to the supermarket, get tickets ONLY for food items, don't mix food with other goods (which are NOT ACCEPTED EXPENSES). Be extra careful with money exchange/ATM tickets, keep them all. Sometimes it is possible to ask for a daily allowance, as mentioned above.

R+D+i MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

- EMPLOYEE TRAINING: each of you has a document in which we have to keep a record of any “training activities” you take part in, it’s like a short CV. You should update this document yourselves with information on ICIQ's language classes, congresses, summer schools etc. Forms in 3 languages: http://aliga.iciq.es/fsn/# (USERS_AREA -> ICIQ FORMS) File:Individual training record.pdf

- COURSES, CONFERENCES, CONGRESSES: when you go to a course, summer school, congress or anything “educational” from which you’re supposed to “learn” something, we’ll have to fill in some forms. The first one is to inform Direction that you want to attend File:Training action request.pdf, the second one you've got to fill in when the course/congress finishes File:Evaluation of training action.pdf (.doc files at the intranet: http://intranet.iciq.es/portal/629/default.aspx ). Try to get always an attendance/presentation certificate. Forms in 3 languages: http://aliga.iciq.es/fsn/# (USERS_AREA -> ICIQ FORMS)

• ATTENTION: we need receipts of registration fees and atendance/participation certificates. Sometimes the organisers send them to you, or you're given them with the congress documents at arrival, but sometimes you'll have to specifically ask for them.

PRINTING POSTERS

ICIQ has got an agreement with SERVIREPRO. You have to use "WeTransfer" (10 Mb - 2 Gb) https://www.wetransfer.com/ to send your PDF version of the poster to disseny@servirepro.com They usually need 3 days to print a poster. Types of poster -> you can choose between shiny paper, plastified poster or fabric (cotton & polyester) poster. When you pick it up at the shop you don't have to pay anything, but you need to give them an ICIQ purchase order (ask Núria V. for one) and ask for a receipt ("albarán" in Spanish)

They also print booklets, theses (info below, in Catalan) etc

Their contact data:

Servirepro

Pare Palau, 8, Local 1 • 43001 TARRAGONA Tel. 977 22 50 10 • Fax 977 21 82 08 www.servirepro.com

Opening hours: Monday - Thursday 8:30 - 13:30 and 16:00 - 19:00. Fridays: 8:30 - 13:30 only

Theses:

Printer's: we recommend "Llar Digital". They're reliable and fast. Contact to get a quote: daniel@llardigital.com Bear in mind that they're in Castellón, so if you want to have more control and "see" how the printing is going, then go to Servirepro.

Núria V.