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16 Feb 2017: The University's current subscription deal with the RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) expired at the end of 2016. Various deals are on offer from the publisher through JISC and a decision needs to be made on which deal (if any) to agree. There will

14 Mar 2017: A University Fund under the stewardship of the Research Policy Committee is available to consider requests for resources to enable the preparation of large research funding bids involving researchers from at least two Schools.

20 Jul 2017: The European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant scheme is aimed at groups of two to four Principal Investigators to jointly address ambitious research problems in any discipline. The nature of the collaboration within an ERC Synergy Group should

5 Jan 2017: • Do you manage and share software for research? • Are you encountering problems when managing research code? • Is current best practice working for you and your group? • Would you like to discuss solutions for critical issues and common

3 Aug 2017: The European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant scheme is aimed at academics from any discipline who is between 2 – 7 years from the award date of their PhD (although extensions to this eligibility window are possible under certain circumstances

18 Aug 2017: A reminder that the ERC Advanced Grant deadline is on 31st August 2017 at 4pm. The Research Office asks that applications are with us at least 5 working days (24th August) before the deadline in order for the checks to be completed and the Host

5 May 2017: Dr Paola Quattroni from Cancer Research UK will give a presentation on CRUK's policy on data management and sharing including examples of data management plans. There will also be a discussion where researchers can feedback their experiences, issues

9 Mar 2017: The Office of Scholarly Communication in collaboration with the Center for Open Science (COS) are hosting a workshop, to learn easy practical steps you can take to increase the reproducibility of your work. The workshop will be led by Courtney

19 Jan 2017: Workshops will be repeated at 3 locations across Cambridge, include a demo of the new interface and there is an opportunity to ask questions.

18 Aug 2017: The University of Cambridge has been awarded an Agri-Food Technology Seeding Catalyst Award. The Agri-Food Technology Seeding Catalyst aims to: • Increase productivity in the agri-food sector • Provide healthy, safe, high quality and nutritious

16 Feb 2017: Following feedback from a recent RGUG meeting (Research Grants User Group), the Research Operations Office is organising a workshop about the role of ROO and Departments. This will be presented in the context of assessing risk in research grant

3 Aug 2017: The European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant scheme is aimed at groups of two to four Principal Investigators to jointly address ambitious research problems in any discipline. The nature of the collaboration within an ERC Synergy Group should

5 Dec 2017: The European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant scheme is aimed at academics from any discipline who are between 7 – 12 years from their PhD. Funding of up to €2M is available for projects up to 5 years duration, with the call deadline on

2 Feb 2017: Please be advised that X5 has been updated with the new fEC rates for 2017 from the 1st of February 2017 (note MRF/SRF rates are yet to be updated). ... Users of X5 are advised to update their costings (the Rates Tab in X5) to ensure the new rates are

5 Jan 2017: The Research Office will be offering guidance to PIs and students who are required to submit a return to Researchfish for the next submission period 6 February 2017 to 16 March 2017 at 4pm. Funders included in this window are RCUK, BHF, CRUK, NIHR,

7 Mar 2017: task:. - RTD - EC contribution 75%: Research and technological development activities directly aimed at creating new knowledge, new technology, and products, including scientific (not management) coordination. - ... DEMO - EC contribution 50% (NB rare

21 Nov 2017: Search site. Research Operations Office. Christmas and New Year Deadlines for Applications / Expenditure Statement. ... This is to allow Final Expenditure Statements to be submitted prior to the Christmas/New Year break, as the due date will not be

17 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

4 Oct 2017: listed once) viii. Email of ESR. b. Click “OK” - this generates a new entry in the Project’s Researcher library. ... 2) Click ‘Save’ at top of screen to save the new Researcher.

5 Dec 2017: In order to help us manage new work received, deadlines that fall during the Christmas break and the first week in January 2018, will need to be with ROO on the ... This is to allow Final Expenditure Statements to be submitted prior to the Christmas/New

4 Oct 2017: listed once) viii. Email of ESR. b. Click “OK” - this generates a new entry in the Project’s Researcher library. ... 2) Click ‘Save’ at top of screen to save the new Researcher.

5 Dec 2017: Search site. Research Operations Office. Christmas and New Year Deadlines for Applications / Expenditure Statement - Reminder. ... This is to allow Final Expenditure Statements to be submitted prior to the Christmas/New Year break, as the due date will

22 Sep 2017: The training covers setting up an X5 using the Project Wizard as well as using the correct methodology for capturing costs. Thursday 19th October 2017 9:00am to 12:30pm 17 Mill Lane Monday 13th November 2017 9:00am to 12:30pm 17 Mill Lane To book

8 Nov 2017: Research & Technological Development (RTD) = "activities directly aimed at creating new knowledge, new technology, and products, including scientific coordination.". ... EC definition = "activities designed to prove the viability of new technologies that

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. Designed specifically to meet the needs of researchers,

20 Oct 2017: The Research Dashboard is a web-application, designed for Researchers to see their research project activity in one place. The first phase of the dashboard has been designed to give researchers an overview of their grants and contracts, so they can

22 Jun 2017: US Export Control If you import controlled technology / goods / software from the USA, US Export Controls apply even after the item is no longer in the US.

18 Aug 2017: The training covers setting up an X5 using the Project Wizard as well as using the correct methodology for capturing costs. Monday 18th September 2017 17 Mill Lane Thursday 19th October 2017 17 Mill Lane Monday 13th November 2017 17 Mill Lane The

18 Aug 2017: In addition to this, the new Research Dashboard will only show proposals that have been created within the last 9 months, unless they have been submitted to ROO where they will

19 May 2017: The next Research Grants User Group (RGUG) meeting is on Tuesday 23 May 2017. Note the room has changed from LR3 Inglis Building to LR4 Baker Building). The agenda is available from the ROO website

6 Apr 2017: The training covers setting up an X5 using the Project Wizard as well as using the correct methodology for capturing costs. Thursday 27th April 2017 Greenwich House Spaces Monday 15th May 2017 17 Mill Lane Full Thursday 22nd June 2017 17 Mill

21 Apr 2017: Leverhulme Trust have recently received reports from successful applicants that the email sent to them at their university email address by the Trust to notify them of their success and provide their award letter was filtered to their junk mail or

5 Oct 2017: The Research Contracts Portal is a tool designed to be used by Principal Investigators and Departmental Administrators so that they can keep track of the latest status of research contract negotiations. The online tool is available on the ROO

5 Dec 2017: The training covers setting up an X5 using the Project Wizard as well as using the correct methodology for capturing costs. Monday 15th January 2018 9:00am to 12:30pm 17 Mill Lane To book a place please contact Debbie.West-Lewis@admin.cam.ac.uk at

3 Nov 2017: This new agreement is particularly useful for large grants and reduces the risk of non-compliance.

4 Aug 2017: As presented at the recent Research Grants User Group meeting, the Research Office and UIS are developing a Research Dashboard and data from X5 will pull through to the system. In order that only current data appears on the dashboard, could

2 Feb 2017: The next RGUG meeting with be on Friday 10th February at 10am in the Roger Needham Building, West Cambridge. An agenda for the meeting is available from the ROO website.

5 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 or PI. The session will be led by ROO and LEES Chartered

19 May 2017: The Royal Society has developed a new online Grants Management System to replace e-GAP. ... Each month, new schemes will be added to Flexi-Grant with the first being “International Exchanges” where applicants will need to use the new system to submit

21 Apr 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 or PI. The session will be led by ROO and LEES Chartered

10 Mar 2017: Horizon 2020 rules require only a single audit with the final claim. In order to mitigate the risk associated with having just a single audit, the University has developed a policy which enables all eligible projects to have an interim audit. Full

5 May 2017: 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.

17 Feb 2017: Please note the new time of 10am instead of 10:30am to allow attendees to go to the University administrative staff meeting if they wish at 11:30am in Lecture Room

9 Mar 2017: The Finance Information Delivery Framework project has released a number of CUFS reports that are now available in Excel. There are three reports relating to research grants: GMS: Award Status Report By Dept or Award - Excel Version (UFS) GMS:

19 Oct 2017: This is a new project and any feedback regarding additional topics or suggestions are welcome and can be emailed to Debbie West-Lewis. ... The Research Office is currently piloting a new due diligence questionnaire via the recent Global Challenges