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19 Jun 2020: The EU team are organising a series of information events for the ERC advanced grant call 2020. The deadline for this call is 26th August 2020. Speakers will be: o Prof. Judith Driscoll, ERC Advanced grant holder o Prof. Robin Franklin, Panel Chair

4 Dec 2020: Due to the Christmas vacation the Research Operations Office (ROO) will close from 5pm on Wednesday 23rd December 2020 and will re-open on Monday 4th January 2021. Therefore please be aware of the following deadlines and let your researchers know of

20 Nov 2020: RGUG is an open meeting led by the Research Office and is a forum where research grant administration issues and developments are discussed. The next meeting has been set for Thursday 3rd December at 11:15am and there will be an agenda item on Brexit

6 Nov 2020: RGUG is an open meeting led by the Research Office and is a forum where research grant administration issues and developments are discussed. The next meeting has been set for Thursday 3rd December at 11:15am and there will be an agenda item on Brexit

15 May 2020: The EC team will be running a pilot 'EC funding & Covid-19 drop-in session' on Tuesday 19th May, 11:30 - 12:30. The session will start with a brief presentation on the EC's current guidance on the impact of Covid-19 on Horizon 2020 awards, followed

6 Nov 2020: Due to the Christmas vacation the Research Operations Office (ROO) will close from 5pm on Wednesday 23rd December 2020 and will re-open on Monday 4th January 2021. Therefore please be aware of the following deadlines and ensure that your researchers

20 Nov 2020: Due to the Christmas vacation the Research Operations Office (ROO) will close from 5pm on Wednesday 23rd December 2020 and will re-open on Monday 4th January 2021. Therefore please be aware of the following deadlines and ensure that your researchers

17 Jul 2020: The next meeting of the Research Grants User Group (RGUG) will take place as a Live Meeting on Tuesday 28th July at 11:15am. Agenda topics will include Managing Funding on EU Awards, Furlough of Staff on Research Grants and UKRI’s COVID-19 Grant

6 Nov 2020: The way the Wellcome Trust funds its research is changing to support its new vision and strategy. Their new vision is to support science to solve three worldwide health challenges: infectious diseases, global heating and mental health.

6 Nov 2020: X5 - the costing and pricing tool for research projects is due to be upgraded. Technical issues have now been resolved and the new date for the upgrade is Tuesday 24th November 2020. The upgrade will include improvements to the interface, fixes to

4 Sep 2020: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has awarded a COVID-19 Grant Extension Allocation (CoA) to UK organisations to support costed extensions to grants affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. It expects organisations to use CoA funds to ensure that: UKRI

19 Mar 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 241. Published on 19 March 2020. The University of Cambridge has implemented its Coronavirus contingency plan and the Research Office has closed its premises. Staff

3 Jul 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 249. Published on 3 July 2020. As research funders continue to review their guidance for grant holders and applicants, the Research Operations Office has updated

25 Sep 2020: Following this UKRI announcement, updated Terms and Conditions requiring organisations to be compliant with the new UKRI Preventing Harm Safeguarding in Research and Innovation policy will be applied to new UKRI grants from March/April 2021. This

19 Mar 2020: The University of Cambridge has implemented its Coronavirus contingency plan and the Research Office has closed its premises. Staff who are able to work remotely will do so, however the level of service that we can provide during this period will be

6 Feb 2020: The British Heart Foundation have recently updated their application portal and guidelines for grants. As a result of this, a provision for inflation should now be included on Salaries, previously this was not the case. The current schemes on X5 are

18 Dec 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 261. Published on 18 December 2020. An Organisational Spend Report (OSR) is submitted quarterly to the Wellcome Trust (WT) by the Research Operations Office (ROO)

24 Apr 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 244. Published on 24 April 2020. We would like to remind you that from Monday 27th April there will be some changes to the way in which grant applications will be

11 Sep 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 254. Published on 11 September 2020. This is a reminder that as per the Terms & Conditions of Horizon 2020, reporting staff costs to the EC requires that only the

6 Mar 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 240. Published on 6 March 2020. The deadline for PIs to submit their research outcomes into Researchfish is Thursday 12th March at 4pm for the following major