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Effort
Certification
Innovations
include:
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An Effort Listserv to address communication
needs between effort certification
system owners and users. |
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A new Lead Effort Coordinator role with additional
rights, including the ability to add names to the list of
researchers working on a grant. |
What's next?
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Beginning in July 2007, the University will reduce
the number of effort certification periods from four to three.
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Beginning in July 2007, the University will base
the effort reporting calendar on semesters. |
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A combined checkbox to certify effort on nonsponsored
accounts while maintaining compliance with effort regulations. |
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A tool for staff to use to monitor faculty whose
effort on sponsored accounts reaches 90 percent. |
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A system change that will facilitate the Lead
Effort Coordinator's ability to enable staff with suitable
means of verifying an employee's effort (such as a lab coordinator)
to certify that employee's activity. |
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A posting of ECRT system changes
available in the next version of the software giving users
the ability to provide recommendations or suggestions. |
Proposal
Routing Form (PRF)
Innovations
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Allowing department heads
and deans to delegate signatory responsibility for the form |
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Eliminating the need for co-investigator
signatures to process a proposal |
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Re-engineering the form to
allow parallel routing |
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Accepting electronic PRFs
for fully-electronic proposals |
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Accepting PRFs and budgets
separately from the scientific parts of the
proposal and ahead of the deadline, when technically
possible |
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Requiring a revised PRF only for revisions
with significant changes like budget changes of at least
25 percent, changes in key personnel effort, or cost sharing/matching
commitments. |
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A “Smarter" Proposal Routing Form (PRF)
was released June 6th. More
>> |
Other research processes SPA coordinates
Innovations
include:
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SPA no longer requires detailed budgets for
NIH modular grants at the time of
application. |
What's next?
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A report for colleges to keep informed about proposals
submitted in their areas. |
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A shortened Material Transfer Agreement template
and in most cases, researchers will no longer to have to contact
SPA after they have received the material. |
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