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21 Apr 2015: This is advance notice that the University, in line with fEC guidelines, will be implementing revised full economic cost rates from 1 February 2011.

21 Apr 2015: 1. The New Funder Form has been updated with an additional funder budget heading and is available here.2. A new line has been added to the warnings section (p6) of the Validation Guide and is available here.3. UIS are planning an upgrade of the X5

21 Apr 2015: Please be advised that X5 will be unavailable on Monday 4th November between 8am and 8:30am to allow for updating of the submission reports.Updates will be made to the Je-S, Generic and Wellcome reports and will include: Generic and

21 Apr 2015: pFACT, the University’s costing tool has been in use for several years and as such, holds a large number of proposals. To keep the system running smoothly, it is good practice to undertake regular house-keeping within pFACT, and to this end we are

21 Apr 2015: This is an advance notice that the University, in line with fEC guidelines, has to implement revised full economic cost rates from 1 February each year.

4 Jun 2015: The Research Operations Office is again offering X5 training and would like to invite departmental staff who are required to generate costings for their departments, to attend one of these events. The content will include; using the Project Wizard

21 Apr 2015: X5 will be unavailable on Tuesday 23 July between 0800 and 0900 so that routine mainentance and bug fixes can be undertaken.

21 Apr 2015: Prerequisite: Must have attended a Full Economic Costing (fEC) / Income Allocation Policy (IAP) Seminar during the last 3 years.

21 Apr 2015: Further to the update on the CUFS downtime. Please could all departments ensure that all transactions are complete for any grants that require reporting or audits at the begining of April/end of May.Thank you for your cooperation.

21 Apr 2015: Please note the availability of the X5 costing and pricing application during the following periods - • X5 will be vulnerable on Monday 18 August between 8:30am and 9:30am due to the updating of University pay scales• X5 will be unavailable on

21 Apr 2015: X5 Update This week we are continuing with UAT testing and are grateful to the volunteers who are working with us during this period. This is an important phase as the feedback we receive from our testers  ensures X5 meets the demands that will be

12 Nov 2015: OpenCon is the conference for students and professionals on Open Access, Open Education and Open Data. Following the main event in Brussels, Belgium we are organising a dedicated Satellite event in Cambridge. OpenCon Cambridge will provide a

21 Apr 2015: The Research Strategy Office has developed a new section on its website dedicated to Restricted Calls. ‘Restricted calls’ are an internal University of Cambridge process that has been established in response to the increasing number of funding

21 Apr 2015: Presentations from the Research Grant User Group (RGUG) on 1 November are now available on the Research Office website http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/research/rgug/default.aspx?id=20111101The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 13 December, 9

10 Dec 2015: 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers Nature’s ‘Scientific Data’ journal event 2. RELEVANT TO: Research students Guidance for Resarchfish users Nature’s ‘Scientific Data’ journal event Open Data @ Addenbrokes Open Data @ Mill Lane 3.

21 Apr 2015: This is an advance notice that the University, in line with fEC guidelines, has to implement revised full economic cost rates from 1 February each year.

12 Nov 2015: 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers ContentMine Workshop: mining for the life sciences OpenCon Cambridge New RCUK guidelines on research data sharing policy - feedback welcome 2. RELEVANT TO: Research students ContentMine Workshop: mining for

21 Apr 2015: In line with fEC guidelines, the University has to implement revised full economic cost rates from February each year.

21 Apr 2015: There are 3 new tutorials to help you use X5 on the following topics: Copying a costing Costing Tabs External partner leads These videos are available on the X5 website http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/research/applying/x5/default.aspx  

21 Apr 2015: Please be advised that X5 will be unavailable on Monday 3rd March between 08:00am and 12:00 noon to allow MISD to perform an upgrade to the system.Users have been advised separately regarding this downtime but it is important to note that once the