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25 Feb 2022: The Apprenticeship Levy is a tax on salary bills introduced in 2017. There are many funders who deem the Apprenticeship Levy cost ineligible when costing a project; this includes CRUK, Royal Society, Leverhulme, BHF and the BA. For applications to

7 Oct 2022: Whilst the new system of authorising and storing timesheets is bedding in, UKRI have indicated that they will offer some flexibility during this initial period regarding timesheets that are currently being

23 Sep 2022: To apply the new rates to existing costings, go to the rates table tab and update the out of date files by clicking on "apply all updated files now".

6 May 2022: This includes understanding fEC, costing staff and working with contracts. Whether you are new to administering a grant portfolio or looking to update your knowledge, the topics presented can help you

18 Nov 2022: We have set up a new Yammer community - Supporting Research at Cambridge, please join us!

23 Sep 2022: During August, we scheduled some live demonstrations and Q&A sessions to support this new process. ... If you would like to give us your feedback on the new timesheet process, please use this form to share your views with us.

8 Jul 2022: From July 2022, a new mechanism for timesheets has been implemented to comply with audit requirements on UKRI funding (RCUK and Innovate). ... Research Support Advisors at ROO will guide Departments through this new procedure at the time the FES is due.

22 Apr 2022: The Principal Investigator Programme has been developed to help researchers with their responsibilities of managing a grant. Two more dates have been added to the programme Thursday 28th April 2022, 12:30-13:30 Export Control - understand your

25 Mar 2022: The full statutory guidance on the new sanctions is available on the GOV.UK website. ... The export to Crimea of infrastructure-related exports. For more information on the sanctions, including a detailed briefing document on the new controls, see the

24 Jun 2022: The lack of association is only impacting those new awards under the Horizon Europe framework and ongoing H2020 grants are currently not affected and can continue as normal.

6 May 2022: The European Research Executive Agency (REA) is looking for expert evaluators from a wide range of fields to evaluate project proposals and monitor the implementation of projects for EU Programmes including Horizon Europe.

14 Jan 2022: We are pleased to announce that the University has been notified of the first tranche of successful applications under the Horizon Europe funding programme. Work is underway between the Research Operations Office, Departments and PIs to prepare the

18 Mar 2022: The new rules empower the government to impose conditions on qualifying acquisitions of entities and assets, or, if necessary, to block or unwind the offending transactions.

9 Sep 2022: A major upgrade of Elements, the University’s Research Information Management System has taken place and is ready for the new academic year. ... We hope that this will make it easier to introduce new staff and students to Elements, and to learn about

10 Jun 2022: From July onwards, all part-funded DI staff will be charged to a new task on the grants module that will need to be reconciled against timesheet evidence. ... This will meet our obligations around the UKRI audit findings and the new process can also

2 Mar 2022: 1. How to navigate the Consolidated List and search for controlled items1. This guide is for researchers whose work involves the physical export of items. outside the UK. It is designed to help establish whether those items are controlled.

24 Jun 2022: An Organisational Spend Report (OSR) is submitted quarterly to the Wellcome Trust (WT) by the Research Operations Office (ROO) for the months of March, June, September and December. Before ROO submits the next OSR, please could Departments check and

5 Aug 2022: On 20th July 2022, the UK Government published a paper entitled Supporting UK R&D and collaborative research beyond European programmes.

16 Dec 2022: The annual submission period for UKRI, NIHR, BHF, CRUK and other funders is 6th February to 16th March 2023 during which time PIs need to use their Researchfish account to submit a return on their research outputs. Prior to the submission period,

7 Oct 2022: Thank you to those who were able to attend the Research Grants User Group Meeting (RGUG) on 29th September. The recording and slides are now available to view to the ROO website. The meeting included presentations on Transforming Research Support,