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21 Feb 2017: For financial audits, generally the following items will be looked at: Copies of invoices and expense claims Billing report and reconciliation with submitted claims Back up for personnel costs, including signed timesheet, Contract of Employment and

21 Feb 2017: For technical audits, generally the followings will be looked at: Degree of fulfilment of the project work plan and deliverables for the relevant period Continued relevance of the objectives Management procedures and methods of projects The

16 Feb 2017: The University Information Services (UIS) has been developing three new, large-scale, enterprise grade storage services to meet the need for mass data storage across the University. These are Research Data Store Research File Share Research Cold

6 Apr 2017: From 6 April 2017, employers with a wage bill over £3 million per year, must pay the apprenticeship levy which is charged at 0.5% of the annual pay bill. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-levy/apprenticeship-levy| Funders

19 May 2017: The Research Operations Office is organising a half-day event on Horizon 2020 audits targeted at those involved in Horizon 2020 project finance and reporting, either as an administrator, accounts clerk or PI. The session will be led by ROO and LEES

5 Dec 2017: The next RGUG meeting is Tuesday 6th February, 10am - 11.30am at the Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Presentations from the previous meeting on 30th NOvember are now available on the ROO website

17 Feb 2017: The next RGUG (Research Grants User Group) meeting will be held on Tuesday 28th March 2017 in Room 7, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. Please note the new time of 10am instead of 10:30am to allow attendees to go to the University administrative staff

20 Jul 2017: On Tuesday 25 July 2017 a New Investigator Award scheme replaced the First Grant initiative. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is introducing the new scheme following a recent review of First Grants.

3 Nov 2017: As part of its modernisation programme Grants.gov have advised that from 31 December 2017, PDF single-file application packages will no longer be available and any downloaded prior to that date must be submitted before 31 March 2018. As a replacement

5 May 2017: In X5, an additional option has been added to two drop down menus. When adding a new unnamed staff member the Title Mx (Gender Neutral) has been added to the drop down list Under the reason for Entering New/Unnamed Post, Pooled Labour has been added

5 Oct 2017: Connect your ORCID to your Symplectic Elements profile between Monday 16 October and Thursday 26 October for a chance to win a £150 Heffers voucher. For further information regarding the competition, how to set up your ORCID, how to get a

21 Nov 2017: The Research Dashboard is a web-based application designed for PIs to see their research project activity in one place. The dashboard will give researchers an overview of their applications, grants and contracts including The progress of a grant

21 Apr 2017: The University of Cambridge Symplectic Elements system will be unavailable on the from 2pm on Friday 21 April until 10:30am on Monday 24 April. This is to enable an upgrade to version 5.4. We apologise for the inconvenience. If you require urgent

19 May 2017: The ERC Synergy Grant scheme which was piloted in 2012 and 2013, will be re-launched in the ERC Work Programme 2018. It is expected that the call will be published on 19 July 2017 with a deadline of 14 November 2017. The perspective is to fund 25 to

21 Apr 2017: Technology Touching Life (TTL) is a new joint activity between BBSRC, EPSRC and MRC to support research into the development of technologies for discovery research in the life sciences. Further details are available at

21 Mar 2017: Wellcome trust has announced that for all grants awarded from 1st October 2017 onwards, the standard allowance for grant inflation will increase from 1.6% to 2.0% per annum. Existing grants will not be affected.

5 Oct 2017: The Research Operations Office is about to embark on the next Research Administrators' Programme for 2018 (ROOTS Tier 2) and we are pleased to invite expressions of interest from all staff within the University who play an active role in the grants

7 Feb 2017: Principles of full economic costing (fEC) and eligibility of the costs can be found on the UKRI website.

5 Oct 2017: LEES (the University’s appointed auditors for federal and EC grants) attended the 59th Annual Meeting of the National Council of University Research Administrators in Washington, DC, to understand current issues for UK institutions in respect of

24 Mar 2017: The Researchfish submission has now closed for RCUK, BHF, CRUK, NIHR & NC3Rs and we would like to thank all researchers and administrative staff for uploading your outputs and submitting a return.