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25 Feb 2022: Changes to the UKRI open access policy come into effect from 1st April 2022, requiring immediate open access to journal articles funded by UKRI. This can be achieved either by publishing in a journal that offers immediate open access to their

4 Nov 2022: The University has been allocated £180,000.00 for the Other ODA Award with the aim of maximising the economic or social development impact for countries on the OECD DAC list.

8 Jul 2022: The next Research Grants User Group (RGUG) meeting will take place as a live event on Thursday 14th July at 11:15am. The agenda will include presentations on Sustainable Business Travel Guidelines, timesheet requirements for UKRI funding and updates

28 Jan 2022: Any member of the University of Cambridge who is interested in research data management (RDM) who would like to become a local contact on RDM can apply to become a Data Champion. Researchers, postgraduate students, librarians, IT managers, data

2 Dec 2022: Due to the Christmas vacation the Research Operations Office (ROO) will close from 5pm on Friday 23rd December 2022 and will re-open on Tuesday 3rd January 2023. Therefore, please be aware of the following deadlines and ensure that your researchers

6 May 2022: As part of the University’s commitment to carbon reduction, the Sustainability Team have consulted with stakeholders from across the University to produced new guidelines on sustainable business travel. The purpose of the guidelines, which were

25 Feb 2022: The next RGUG meeting will take place as a live event on Tuesday 26th April 2022 at 11:15am. Details will be circulated nearer the time. Slides and recording of the previous RGUG meeting on 8th February are available on the RGUG web page. For

25 Mar 2022: Grant application deadlines are changing from 1st April 2022. The current 7 working day deadline for the Standard Application Process is being replaced with a 5 working day deadline. In summary this means - Departments are required to give ROO a

24 Jun 2022: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are making a permanent change regarding flexible start dates for responsive mode grants. This allows a period of up to six months from the announced start date to commence grant activity on responsive mode grants.

18 Nov 2022: The next Research Grants User Group (RGUG) meeting will take place on Tuesday 22nd November at 11:15am. The agenda will include an overview of updated documents and processes regarding the recently introduced timesheet requirements, UKRI underwrite

11 Mar 2022: The deadline for PIs to submit their research outcomes into Researchfish is Thursday 17th March at 4pm for most major funders including UKRI, CRUK, BHF and NIHR. Reporting outcomes are a requirement of accepting an award and PIs who do not comply

28 Jan 2022: The next RGUG meeting will take place as a live event on Tuesday 8th February at 11:15am. Please use this link to join the meeting. The agenda will include a presentation on grant application deadlines and updates on EU matters. Slides and recording

19 Aug 2022: The next Research Grants User Group (RGUG) meeting will take place on Thursday 29th September at 11:15am. Further details about the meeting will follow nearer the time.

23 Feb 2022: issues, from the multiple crises in politics, health and climate change to global economics and human rights.

16 Dec 2022: Due to the Christmas vacation the Research Operations Office (ROO) will close from 5pm on Friday 23rd December 2022 and will re-open on Tuesday 3rd January 2023. Therefore, please be aware of the following deadlines and ensure that your researchers

2 Dec 2022: The annual submission period for UKRI, NIHR, BHF, CRUK and other funders is 6th February to 16th March 2023 during which time PIs need to use their Researchfish account to submit a return on their research outputs. Prior to the submission period,

4 Nov 2022: Applications are now open for the University Collaboration Budget, designed to fund collaborative projects between the University of Cambridge and the Academic department at Cambridge University Press. Both University of Cambridge Staff and

22 Apr 2022: The next Research Grants User Group (RGUG) meeting will take place as a live event on Tuesday 26th April at 11:15am. The agenda will include presentations on the revised UKRI open access policy, Horizon Europe guarantee funding, updated guidance on

19 Aug 2022: The University has been allocated funding from the GCRF/Newton Fund block grant and other ODA block grant funding to be spent over the period 1 April 2022 to 31st March 2023. These awards are from the Department for Business, Energy and Innovation

4 Nov 2022: The European Commission requires grant holders to keep documentary evidence of absences as a requirement of Article.18 in the Annotated Model Grant Agreement (AMGA) “Information included in time-sheets must match records of annual leave, sick leave

5 Oct 2022: Responding to the industry question, “Is off-site manufacturing more or less profitable than on site construction?”, the researchers reviewed financial metrics to understand the economic implications of OSM. ... as well as to improve quality control

22 Apr 2022: The European Commission have recently launched a dedicated portal ERA4Ukraine as a one-stop-shop for information on support to researchers of Ukraine by the EU, its Member States and Associated Countries. Displaced researchers or other specialists

20 May 2022: UKRO is running a free webinar for researchers and organisations who were recently awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship under the 2021 call. The 'Navigating the UK Immigration Landscape' webinar will be held on 14

11 Feb 2022: Do you want to make sure your published research is Open Access, meet funder-reporting obligations, and make the most of the Research Information available to you? Find out more about how to: explore the other Research Information tools

16 Dec 2022: An Organisational Spend Report (OSR) is submitted quarterly to the Wellcome Trust (WT) by the Research Operations Office (ROO) for the months of March, June, September and December. Before ROO submits the next OSR, please could Departments check and

2 Dec 2022: Thank you to those who were able to attend the Research Grants User Group Meeting (RGUG) on 22nd November 2022. The recording and slides are now available to view to the ROO website. The meeting included an overview of updated documents and

16 Dec 2022: The annual submission period for UKRI, NIHR, BHF, CRUK and other funders is 6th February to 16th March 2023 during which time PIs need to use their Researchfish account to submit a return on their research outputs. Prior to the submission period,

7 Oct 2022: An Organisational Spend Report (OSR) is submitted quarterly to the Wellcome Trust (WT) by the Research Operations Office (ROO) for the months of March, June, September and December. Before ROO submits the next OSR, please could Departments check and

23 Sep 2022: The next Research Grants User Group (RGUG) meeting will take place on Thursday 29th September at 11:15am. The agenda will include the findings of user research at grant application stage, an update on Horizon Europe / UKRI Underwrite and feedback on

5 Aug 2022: On 20th July 2022, the UK Government published a paper entitled Supporting UK R&D and collaborative research beyond European programmes.

5 Dec 2022: pump-priming or the commissioning of external specialist advice and consultancy for market research, business planning, technology commercialisation or health economic modelling.

23 Sep 2022: The EU and International Team together with Cambridge Enterprise are organising an online information event on 3rd November about the Horizon Results Booster (HRB) for Horizon 2020 Projects at the University. Horizon Results Booster (HRB) is an

5 Aug 2022: Award letters for the first round of ERC and MSCA projects going through the UKRI underwrite process have now arrived. The Post-Award teams here in ROO are working through the processes of formally accepting the awards, in line with the required

24 Jun 2022: European Research and Innovation Days is the European Commission’s annual flagship Research and Innovation event, bringing together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and the public to debate and shape the future of research and innovation

5 Oct 2022: Looking at OSM through the lens of ecosystems economics and servitisation (the transition from one-off product sales to ongoing service provision), researchers sought to examine the appropriateness of OSM as

24 Jun 2022: An Organisational Spend Report (OSR) is submitted quarterly to the Wellcome Trust (WT) by the Research Operations Office (ROO) for the months of March, June, September and December. Before ROO submits the next OSR, please could Departments check and

28 Apr 2022: As of 1st January 2024, the UK is now fully associated to Horizon Europe. This means that the researchers and innovators hosted by or based at UK institutions are able to fully participate in the Horizon Europe programme. Funding Certainty UK

11 Feb 2022: Thank you to those who were able to attend the Research Grants User Group Meeting (RGUG) on 8th February. The recording and slides are now available to view. The meeting included a presentation about the new grant application deadlines coming into

16 Dec 2022: On 1st December, the European Commission opened a public consultation on the past, present and future of the EU's Horizon research and innovation programmes 2014-2027. This consultation is expected to contribute to the final and interim evaluations

7 Oct 2022: Thank you to those who were able to attend the Research Grants User Group Meeting (RGUG) on 29th September. The recording and slides are now available to view to the ROO website. The meeting included presentations on Transforming Research Support,

4 Nov 2022: Cloud computing gives you the opportunity to transform how you do certain compute tasks and is particularly well suited to short, time-limited tasks like research projects. University Information Services (UIS) is now offering a new Amazon Web

20 Oct 2022: The EU and International Team together with Cambridge Enterprise are organising an online information event on 3rd November about the Horizon Results Booster (HRB) for Horizon 2020 and FP7 Projects at the University. An update agenda is available on

18 Nov 2022: Due to the Christmas vacation the Research Operations Office (ROO) will close from 5pm on Friday 23rd December 2022 and will re-open on Tuesday 3rd January 2023. Therefore, please be aware of the following deadlines and ensure that your researchers

2 Dec 2022: The UKRI Guarantee Guidance was updated on 3rd November 2022 for the third wave of Horizon Europe calls with a final deadline date on or before 31st December 2022. The updates include; covering the costs for personnel based outside of the UK,

7 Oct 2022: The EU and International Team together with Cambridge Enterprise are organising an online information event on 3rd November about the Horizon Results Booster (HRB) for Horizon 2020 Projects at the University. Horizon Results Booster (HRB) is an

22 Jul 2022: Thank you to those who were able to attend the Research Grants User Group Meeting (RGUG) on 14th July. The recording and slides are now available to view to the ROO website. The meeting included presentations on the Sustainable Business Travel

6 May 2022: Thank you to those who were able to attend the Research Grants User Group Meeting (RGUG) on 26th April. The recording and slides are now available to view. The meeting included presentations on the revised UKRI open access policy, Horizon Europe

18 Mar 2022: economic outcomes.

22 Sep 2022: consumer/customer offerings, business model innovation, open to third party developers, patient investors pursuing winner-takes all approach, regulatory entrepreneurship, political economic institutional support, and multi-sided platform/markets.

24 Jun 2022: Cluster 3 forms part of Pillar 2 within Horizon Europe and focuses on security issues including - Strengthened Security Research and Innovation Disaster-Resilient Society for Europe Increased Cybersecurity Resilient Infrastructure Effective