What is the amount of overhead costs?

Eligible costs may include additional (overhead) costs incurred in direct temporal and material connection with the project (e.g., administrative costs, costs of support staff and infrastructure). The maximum amount of such costs is 20% of the total eligible project costs requested from the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, excluding the costs of acquiring fixed assets, i.e., only non-investment costs. From VES 2026, the limit is set at a maximum of 25% of direct costs (personnel, operating, investment). Additional (overhead) costs planned in the project proposal cannot be exceeded or requested to be increased during the project. If these costs are not requested in the project proposal, they cannot be included in the eligible costs.

The overhead costs incurred during the entire project period must not 1) exceed the original amount planned in the approved project proposal and 2) exceed the specified percentage limit on actual expenditure.