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An award (or a project) results when a sponsor funds a proposal and that sponsor issues a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement to U-M. When an award is granted by a sponsor, it's time to set up the project and begin the research, managing the project through its completion or close out.
When a project is awarded, an email notification is sent to the principal investigator and the post-award administrative contact when the project/grant number is established. This serves as a notification that your project has been awarded and includes special terms and conditions associated with the award. The notification also includes information such as:
- Awarded amount
- Project/grant number and ShortCode
- Project period and budget period dates
- Funding (direct, indirect costs)
- Cost sharing, if any
- Any special terms and conditions
An award is accepted when the appropriate signatory for the university has signed the agreement and/or when you start spending on the project. You can, typically, start spending on the project when you have received the email notification of project award AND you are within the project period.
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As the nation’s largest public research university, the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) aims to catalyze, support and safeguard U-M research and scholarship activity.
The Office of the Vice President for Research oversees a variety of interdisciplinary units that collaborate with faculty, staff, students and external partners to catalyze, support and safeguard research and scholarship activity.
ORSP manages pre-award and some post-award research activity for U-M. We review contracts for sponsored projects applying regulatory, statutory and organizational knowledge to balance the university's mission, the sponsor's objectives, and the investigator's intellectual pursuits.
Ethics and compliance in research covers a broad range of activity from general guidelines about conducting research responsibly to specific regulations governing a type of research (e.g., human subjects research, export controls, conflict of interest).
eResearch is U-M's site for electronic research administration. Access: Regulatory Management (for IRB or IBC rDNA applications); Proposal Management (eRPM) for the e-routing, approval, and submission of proposals (PAFs) and Unfunded Agreements (UFAs) to external entities); and Animal Management (for IACUC protocols and ULAM).
Sponsored Programs manages the post-award financial activities of U-M's research enterprise and other sponsored activities to ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws as well as sponsor regulations. The Office of Contract Administration (OCA) is also part of the Office of Finance - Sponsored Programs.