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6 Feb 2015: There are a number of different reporting tools currently available to enable staff to extract and analyse financial information from UFS UFS Cognos Excel Tableau UFS Standard reports and online enquiries run directly within UFS that generally

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.

27 Feb 2015: The Framework Programme for Research and Technology (FP7) was the main research funding stream in the European Union from 2007 until 2013 with a €54 billion budget. Recipients of EC FP7 funds are required to manage the administration of their fund

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 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

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

25 Jun 2015: Once you have contacted the Contracts Manager we will send an introductory email to open the contract negotiation dialogue. The following will also happen ROO will assign an "RG number" for the project, if it does not already have one.

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: From 1 January 2011, all EC Framework 7 applications should be budgeted at £2000 per audit.  This is because: audit costs have remained the same for a number of years and inflationary pressures during this period means that the budgeted amount now

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.

26 Nov 2015: 1. RELEVANT TO: Academics/ Researchers Researchfish system for collecting Research Outcomes Researchfish submission for Arthritis Research UK – deadline 1 Dec 2015 Researchfish submission for Cancer Research UK (CRUK) 2. RELEVANT TO: Research

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: 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

21 Apr 2015: NIH A-133 audit Findings The recent audit findings highlighted two areas for improvement.  It is important that the destination and reason for travel are included on the invoice/purchase order or travel claim. There were instances where travel h

25 Jun 2015: The earlier the Contracts Manager is involved in the process the greater the likelihood of putting in place an agreement with suitable terms for both parties. The University has its own set of standard agreements that cover a range of different

21 Apr 2015: The process for including new items of equipment on the Equipment Admin Database is as follows: New Fixed Assets in excess of £10K will be loaded monthly by the Fixed Assets Team in Finance into the database as ‘DRAFT’ records. This will

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: The ability to create an award costing in X5 at Department Administrator and Principal Investigator level has been removed, as this costing type should only be used at Research Office level. If you need to create an award costing for an award not

24 Jul 2015: The Research Operations Office is again offering X5 training and would like to invite departmental staff, both academic and administrative, who are required to generate costings for themselves or for their departments, to attend one of these events.

21 Apr 2015: RCUK PhD stipends have been updated (see http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/2014news/Pages/070114.aspx). National Minimum Doctoral Stipend for 2014/15 is £13,863 Research Councils UK Indicative Fee Level for 2014/15 is £3,996 The rates been updated