Transcript NDA Programme Commissioning Overview

Introduction
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Commissioning and Application Process
Form
Guidance Notes for Applicants
Key dates
Contacts
NDA Structure
• Phase I
• P1:1
Collaborative Research Projects (2)
• P1:2
Programme Grants (12)
Preparatory Networks (11)
• Phase II
• P2:1
Collaborative Research Projects
IDEAS Factory
• P2:2
Programme Grants
Commissioning Process
CP assess and
shortlist outlines
Outlines
received
Fulls invited
CP assess fulls and
make
recommendations for
funding
Full proposals
received
Fulls peer reviewed
Applicants
opportunity to
respond to peer
review comment
Commissioning Panel
• Specifically constituted for the programme
• Role:
- to assess and shortlist outline proposals
- to assess full proposals in light of peer review
comments and make funding recommendations
• Mix of academic experts and ‘user’ representatives
• Expertise will cover the disciplines of 5 Research
Councils
Forms
• All applications must be submitted via the
Je-S system:
https://je-s.rcuk.ac.uk/
• Outline Proposal
• Helpdesk:
[email protected] or 01793 444164
(open 9am to 5pm weekdays, except holidays)
• Form has built in checks of content
Guidance Notes for Applicants
• Je-S registration (institution and applicant)
• At least a 48 hour lead time to submission should be
planned
• Lead Discipline select ‘No lead Discipline’. Select two
further ‘secondary disciplines’
• Mandatory Attachments to Je-S form
– Case for Support (up to 6 A4 sides)
– Justification of Costs (up to 1 A4 side)
– References (no page limit)
– CVs (up to 2 A4 sides for each person named in the application)
Case for Support
Outline Proposals
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Page Limit 6 A4 sides
Funding of £8.7m (£7m @ 80% FEC) available.
Hope to make around 7 awards (subject to quality)
Must end by June 2012
Detail on what to cover in Guidance Notes
– what you propose to do
– why you propose to do it
– how you propose to organise it
• Total length of annexed material is restricted to 3 A4
sides
Research Funding Guide
• Applications should be costed on the basis
of Full Economic Costs (FEC)
• Cross-Council programmes ‘Level-up’ i.e.
eligibility within any ‘one council’ is sufficient
to secure eligibility within NDA
• Follow the March 2007 ESRC Research
Funding Guide as default:
http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCen
tre/Images/Research_Funding_Guide_2005Mar07_tcm6-9734.pdf
Key Dates
• Closing Date for Outline applications
provisionally 15th November 2007
• Panel shortlist outline proposals and invite
full proposals for those shortlisted
• Closing Date for Full applications
provisionally mid-March 2008
• Final Decisions June 2008
Future Timetable
CRP call
September 2007
Ideas Factory
January 2008
Programme Grant Call
April 2008
CRP Decisions
June 2008
Programme Grant Decisions
Jan/Feb 2009
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Questions
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EPSRC:
BBSRC:
MRC:
AHRC:
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Programme Director:
Professor Alan Walker [email protected]
Programme Administrator:
Karen Tsui [email protected]
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[email protected]
http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/opportunities/current_fu
nding_opportunities/NDA.aspx
Joy Todd [email protected]
Andrew Clark [email protected]
Louisa Jenkin [email protected]
Jane Fisher [email protected]
Faye Auty [email protected]