Research Grants Section

Brexit and EU Grants

This is just a reminder of the importance of keeping the information on your EU grants up-to-date.

As reported in the July Bulletin, the Research Grants Section in Finance is supporting the management of the risks associated with a 'no deal' Brexit in relation to EU Research Grants and in the next week or so we will be sending out information we have provided to UKRI for you to check.  We will send this information via your College Accountants.  As you know, UKRI launched an online portal for UK-based recipients of Horizon 2020 funding to register details of their grants and the RGS team have submitted details of current H2020 and FP7 grants on behalf of the whole University. It is important you check this information to ensure the information provided to UKIR is as accurate as possible. If you have any further queries on this, please contact Jennifer.Mills@ed.ac.uk.

With 'no deal' still an option, RGS plan to meet with Colleges to ensure their EU grant information is up-to-date and in a good state of readiness. We cannot emphasise enough the need to keep your grant records up-to-date including ensuring all costs are recorded against the R number and time sheets completed.

Further information is available from SFC here or UKRO here.

CRUK Institutional Audit

Cancer Reseach UK are starting their institutional audit this week and we expect them to have around 300 items in their sample testing. We will have limited time to respond to their queries and we would appreciate your support to answer any questions then may have.

Staffing Update

We are pleased to welcome Carol Perry who will be supporting our international grants team. Some of you may know Carol from her time working in Internal Audit.

Farewell and thank you to Laura Petrie who has just left the EU and International Team. We are currently recruiting and hope to have someone in place soon.