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15 Mar 2024: The European Commission is organising online infodays on 25th - 26th April 2024 about the new topics in the EU Missions Work Programme. This includes Adaptation to Climate Change Mission Cancer Mission 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart cities by 2030

14 Jan 2022: Following published guidance from the Office for Students, both the Annual Financial Return and the TRAC Return submissions for 2020-21 have been given an extension until the end of March. Therefore, the University’s fEC rates and the

19 Jun 2024: A guide for academic Departments who are helping their PIs prepare a grant funding application.

16 Dec 2022: Thank you all for your support and engagement with the new timesheet process. UKRI have given us positive feedback on the work that we have all been doing to address the audit findings. Please continue to upload into your all historic timesheets

16 Dec 2022: New updates have been introduced to the UKRI Guarantee Guidance dated 5th December 2022. The scope of the guarantee is still the same: to guarantee funding for all eligible, successful applicants to Horizon Europe calls with final submission

15 Apr 2020: UKRI-funded PhD students whose studies have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and who are in their final year will receive an extension to their research of up to six months so they will be able to complete their studies. Further details are

19 Jan 2024: Please be advised that changes to the USS pension rate have been updated in X5, from 21.6% to 14.5% with an effective date of 1st January 2024, as per USS guidelines. For existing costings in X5, the appropriate staff costing lines will have to be re

28 Jan 2022: Further to our previous announcement in this bulletin regarding the first tranche of successful applications under the Horizon Europe funding programme, we are continuing the work with, Departments, PIs, Project Co-ordinators and UKRI to facilitate

16 Feb 2024: Registrations are now open for the EC’s annual flagship Research and Innovation event which will take place between 18th – 21st March 2024 in Belgium. This event brings together policymakers, researchers and entrepreneurs for debates, workshops

25 Mar 2022: Please be advised that X5 has been updated with the new fEC rates for 2022, which this year are applicable from 9th March 2022. (The University’s TRAC Return was successfully submitted to the Office for Students on the 8th March 2022). The

12 Feb 2021: As part of the X5 Upgrade project, a SharePoint site was launched that contains the new X5 User Guide. This can also be accessed directly from the X5 tool by clicking on any of the "question mark" icons within the system.

5 Aug 2022: Horizon Results Booster (HRB) is an initiative of the European Commission which aims to support projects funded by the EU Framework Programme (FP) to help innovations go to market and maximise their impact.

21 May 2021: Academics and research support staff can find details of the ERC Advanced Grant Call on the ROO website including the recording and slides from the recent UKRO information webinar series. The ERC Advanced Grant call is aimed at established research

19 Jun 2020: Videos have been developed to assist with creating a simple costing in X5 and are located in Stream. Additional support is also available in the following format - Mini User Guides Grants Guidance for Departments FAQs

24 Apr 2020: The single audit report for federal grants for Financial Year 17/18 is now finalised and available from the ROO website.

31 Jul 2014: The Research Operations Office will try to make the process of transferring your grant as smooth and speedy as possible. The procedures for transferring grants between institutions can involve significant amounts of both time and administration; we

23 Apr 2021: When the Research Office activates an award on CUFS, we would like to remind Departments to check that the award has been set up as expected. If there are any discrepancies, please contact your Research Support Advisor as soon as possible so that we

21 Feb 2020: The Research Grant User Group (RGUG) meeting is led by the Research Operations Office and is an open forum where research grant administration issues and developments are discussed. The next meeting will take place as follows Tuesday 25th February

9 Oct 2020: Due to technical difficulties during implementation, the upgrade of X5 which was scheduled to take place on Thursday 8th October has been postponed. Investigations into the issues are ongoing and an announcement will be made regarding a new upgrade

10 May 2024: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 335. Published on 10 May 2024. Following the UK’s association to Horizon Europe, researchers who meet the eligibility criteria, can apply to receive funding