Launch of the Centre of Excellence for Resilient Infrastructure Analysis research grants

A person can apply for more than stream and but must complete a separate Join Electronic Submission System application per submission.  It would be sensible not to have proposals depending on each other.

Project Collaborators do not need to provide a CV but a letter of support from them could be included to show their commitment to the project following STFC guidelines. https://www.ukri.org/councils/stfc/guidance-for-applicants/project-partners-subcontractors-and-collaborators/

Third parties participating in the project can be:

A Project Partner is a third party person who is not employed on the grant, or a third party organisation, who provides specific contributions either in cash or in kind, to the project. Entitlement to the outputs of the project and/or Intellectual Property will be determined between the parties involved, however any access to project outputs and/or IP must be in line with any relevant Subsidy Control regulation. As a rule Project Partners are expected to provide contributions to the delivery of the project and should not therefore be seeking to claim funds from UKRI. However, where there are specific circumstances where Project Partners do require funding for minor costs such as travel and subsistence, this will usually be paid at 80% fEC unless otherwise stated by us; note that any applicable Subsidy Control regulation and HMRC guidance will also be taken into account which may affect the percentage of these costs that we will fund. These costs should be outlined and fully justified in the proposal and will be subject to peer review.

UKRI Head Office Staff acting in their capacity as a UKRI employee are not eligible to be Project Partners. Organisations that are applicants on the project, including non-lead applicant organisations, cannot also be a project partner.

A Subcontractor is a third party individual who is not employed as staff on the grant, or a third party organisation, who is subcontracted by the host organisation to deliver a specific piece of work. This will be subject to the procurement rules of the host organisation. All costs that support the delivery of the subcontract are eligible and will be paid at 80% fEC unless otherwise stated, these should be outlined and fully justified in the proposal and will be subject to peer review. Entitlement to the outputs of the project and/or Intellectual Property will be determined between the parties involved, however any access to project outputs and/or IP must be in line with any relevant Subsidy Control regulation.

Collaborator: Do not have an official role/descriptor of “Collaborator” as this is a word often generically used in relation to a project, therefore this could lead to confusion. Instead, the term “collaboration” should be used in the generic sense to explain that there is a project relationship or interaction, accompanied with an official project role descriptor of Project Partner, Sub-contractor, PI, Co-I etc. to explain the nature of the collaboration.

It is perfectly fine to invite another researcher as a CoI.

There are several types of staff post that can be requested on a grant proposal including investigators, researchers, technicians and associated students.
These posts may be requested as directly incurred, directly allocated or, in some cases, exceptions. See full economic costing fund headings for information about which headings to use.

Applicants must ensure that they have obtained the permission of any other person named on the proposal form (for example, any co-investigators or project partners) for the provision of their personal information to UKRI and the processing of their data by UKRI for the purpose of assessing the application and management of any funding awarded.

Yes, but the project must be led by an eligible UK institution and only eligible UK institutions can receive funding.  Access to the DAFNI platform can be given to international partners in a such project.

Yes. Subcontractor costs should appear under other directly incurred costs and are paid at the standard 80% rate. Other costs – UKRI.

Regarding track record, please keep to up to two pages and give a summary per person involved.  We will be able to glean further information from the CVs.

In relation to CVs, our advice is that each PI and CoI named in the proposal should each have a two-page CV, this will provide the track record.  All the CVs should be merged into one document, with the file name of CV and the leading organisation, and uploaded to JeS. i.e. for four Co-I an eight-page document.

The summary 2-page track record and two pages CV per named PI and CoI, will give us a good understanding of the people involved.

Regarding other collaborations, we don’t need CVs but letters of support would be helpful to outline how they are collaborating.

For JeS in the section Data Management plan, we advise that a document labelled ‘data management plan’ is uploaded with the wording “This is a placeholder document as the call does not require any data management information”. Please then save and upload it to the grant.’

We expect new projects to provide a talk presenting plans at the DAFNI conference, Imperial College London, on the 12^th  September 2023.  Also, it is expected to attend events that showcase progress and results as part of the wider community dissemination. (Travel expenses following UKRI policy and reasonable costs will be covered for speakers attending the 2023 DAFNI conference).