Approving and Submitting Documents
A proposal may be sent to the Approver Pool (two-stage approval) or Submitter Pool (single-stage) by the Owner or an Editor.
An Approver or Submitter is required to:
review (prior to submission) and then forward a document to the next stage (Submitter or Research Council)
or
reject and return the proposal to the previous stage (Owner / Editor or Approver)
Amendments may also be made by the Approver or Submitter in which case the system will require the document to be revalidated before final submission.
The system generates the Research Council's reference number for the document on successful submission.
Research Organisation Responsibility
Organisations should ensure that those staff who act as approvers and submitters for research applications should undertake quality control over the application to be submitted. This should include responsibility for checking the completeness, validity and accuracy of the costs sought.
Research Organisations should take steps to ensure that those appointed to submitter/ approver roles should be made aware of these responsibilities.
It is also the Research Organisation’s responsibility to manage internal deadlines to ensure applications are processed and submitted within the set Je-S Research Council call deadline.
Please ensure that applicants are eligible and comply with Research Council eligibility rules. If there is any doubt due to the diversity of councils rules, then please check individual councils handbooks;