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14 Aug 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 252. Published on 14 August 2020. The X5 Upgrade project team is looking for volunteers to do User Acceptance Testing which is scheduled to take place from 1st -

15 Apr 2020: Research Councils have published a list of calls with their original deadlines and extensions for April and May https://www.ukri.org/files/funding/calls-april-may/

20 Nov 2020: X5 - the costing and pricing tool for research projects is due to be upgraded on Tuesday 24th November 2020. The upgrade will include improvements to the interface, fixes to known bugs and enable us to remain supported by the supplier. A summary of

11 Sep 2020: Please note that UIS will be performing essential maintenance work on the ROO Portal on Tuesday 15th September between 07:30 and 09:00 and the system will be unavailable during these times. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

7 May 2020: The equipment database was developed in 2012 as a response to changes by RCUK to the way that equipment on research grants would be funded and in particular increase shared usage. When the call came to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the database

31 Jul 2020: A reminder that the new Research Investigator Time Policy is being introduced from 1st August 2020 to improve cost recovery and better reflect the true cost of research. Details of the new policy can be found on the ROO website. If you have any

24 Jan 2020: The School of Biological Sciences is hosting a visit by Prof Melanie Welham, BBSRC Executive Chair and will include an Open Meeting chaired by Prof Anna Philpott, Head of School of Biological Sciences. Tuesday 18th February 11:00 – 13:00 Sainsbury

10 Jan 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 236. Published on 10 January 2020. The Royal Society Grants Team is visiting the University of Cambridge on 28th January 2020. Their talk is open to everyone and

24 Jan 2020: On Monday 3rd February, the new 2020 fEC and facilities rates will be imported into X5. This means that X5 will be unavailable between 8am and 9am.

17 Jul 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 250. Published on 17 July 2020. The application process for UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) COVID-19 open call will change on 31st July 2020. After this date,

11 Sep 2020: This month, the Wellcome Trust is changing its digital identity from 'wellcome.ac.uk' to 'wellcome.org'. Emails will come from the .org address and from Monday 14 September the website domain will switch. The .ac.uk domain will continue running for

6 Feb 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 238. Published on 6 February 2020. Please be advised that X5 has been updated with the new fEC rates for 2020. The revised fEC rates are available on the PRAO

19 Jun 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 248. Published on 19 June 2020. The EU team are organising a series of information events for the ERC advanced grant call 2020. The deadline for this call is 26.

7 May 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 245. Published on 7 May 2020. In response to queries that the Research Operation Office have received about the use of electronic signatures on timesheets, we would

19 Jun 2020: The Cambridge-Africa programme is pleased to announce that the call for proposals to the ALBORADA Research Fund, is now open. Applications are invited from pairs of researchers (post-doctoral level and above) from the University of Cambridge or an

18 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

4 Sep 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 253. Published on 4 September 2020. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has awarded a COVID-19 Grant Extension Allocation (CoA) to UK organisations to support costed

24 Jan 2020: The revised GPS was published last month and replaces the October 2018 version as a standard term and condition of awards. This revision applies to all NIH grants and cooperative agreements with budget periods beginning on or after 1st October 2019.

3 Apr 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 242. Published on 3 April 2020. Since the University has been in its Red phase due to the Coronavirus pandemic for almost 2 weeks, the Research Office like many

9 Oct 2020: Search site. Research Operations Office. Research Operations Office Bulletin - Issue 256. Published on 9 October 2020. Due to technical difficulties during implementation, the upgrade of X5 which was scheduled to take place on Thursday 8. th.