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Welcome to ORSP Training/Education Outreach.

This portion of the ORSP website contains materials used in our workshops for University of Maine Faculty and  Staff.  If you would like to register for an upcoming workshop, have questions about the workshop materials, or have suggestions for future training subjects, please contact Amanda Ashe at 581-1480 or amanda.ashe@umit.maine.edu 

 

 

 

The Office of Research & Sponsored Programs in conjunction with the Center for Teaching Excellence present: 

A five part series of workshops designed to provide both new and established researchers an introduction (or refresher) to the process of securing and managing extramural funding and to the services provided by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP).  For a brief description and link to training materials, please choose from one of the workshop topics below.   Please check our list of tentative 2009-10 Workshop dates.

 

ORSP 101:
The Grant Lifecycle.

In this workshop, participants will get an overview of the grant life cycle including:  Identification of Funding, Proposal Development, Proposal Preparation, Proposal Submission, Receipt of Award/Project Start-Up, Award Management, and Award Close-Out.  In addition, a roadmap for navigating the pre- and post- award divisions of ORSP will be presented. Future workshops will provide a more in-depth description of Pre-award, Post-award and Compliance.

 

Presentation in PDF Format

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ORSP 102:
The Pre-Award Process.

Nov. 12, 2009,
10-11:30am, Wells Conference Room 2.

In this workshop, researchers will learn where to find funding, how to develop an idea into a viable grant opportunity, the required elements of a grant proposal, and how to prepare their proposal for submission.  Detailed discussion will include budget preparation, protocols for using human and/or animal subjects in research, intellectual property, staffing, subcontracting, indirect versus direct costs, obtaining approvals through the Proposal Automatic Routing System (PARS), and e-submissions to funding agencies.

 

   Presentation in PDF Format

Pre-Award Hiring Process Chart

Pre-Award 102 Quiz

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ORSP 103:    The Post-Award Process.

Dec. 10, 2009
10-11:30am, Wells
Conference Room 2

This workshop is designed to provide researchers with the tools to manage their funded research grant. Topics covered include the hiring process, reading and overseeing budgets, managing spending, use of cost transfers; filing time and effort, and final project reports, requesting a no-cost extension, and ensuring compliance with the terms of the grant and federal regulations such as those set forth by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

 

   Presentation in PDF Format

Post Award Hiring Chart

OMB Description of Allowable Costs

Responsibility Chart

NEWORSP 104:    Allowable Costs.   
Description coming soon.  
ORSP 201: Compliance.

 

Universities and individual investigators are increasingly finding themselves on the wrong side of the law where compliance with federal regulations on sponsored research funding is concerned.  The goal of this workshop is to provide investigators with an overview of these regulations so they can determine which may apply to their research program. Among the topics covered are funding accountability, intellectual property, export controls, human subjects and radioactive materials.

   Presentation in PDF Format

ECR Decision Tree

IRB Approval Tree

Audit Findings

Sample Material Transfer Agreement

ORSP Summer Camp:

Grants & Contracts PeopleSoft Financials Q&A Session

This Q&A session was a direct result of suggestions made on evaluation forms returned by attendees from our series of Grant Management workshops. Claire Strickland from the Office of Budget & Business Services explained Fund Codes 04 and 24 (Budgets, Transfers and Actuals), as well as how Fund 00 position management is affected by cost sharing of salaries. Bob Lavigne from the Office of Research & Sponsored programs addressed ‘hot topics’ related to cost transfers and cost sharing of salaries, spoke a bit about the GL statement and how to read it, and walked through several ways to determine a project balance.

Q&A Transcript
Grants & Contracts Q&A Presentation

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